Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 66:1 (2011) 191–94The Ideology of Kokugo: Nationalizing Language in Modern Japan by Lee Yeounsuk, trans. Maki Hirano HubbardAtsuko Ueda- MN 66:1 (2011) 195–97Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys: Guilty Lessons by Julian DierkesPhilip Seaton
- MN 66:1 (2011) 198–201Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan by Simon Andrew AvenellGabriele Vogt
- MN 66:1 (2011) 201–205The Other Women’s Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women’s Fiction by Julia C. BullockJoan E. Ericson
- MN 66:1 (2011) 205–207The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation by Thomas LamarreShion Kono
- MN 66:1 (2011) 2011Monumenta Nipponica Volume 66, Number 1, 2011
MN 65:2 (2010) 2010Editor’s NoteMark R. Mullins- MN 65:2 (2010) 245–96The Karmic Origins of the Great Bright Miwa Deity: A Transformation of the Sacred Mountain in Premodern JapanAnna Andreeva
- MN 65:2 (2010) 273–96The Karmic Origins of the Great Bright Miwa DeityTranslated by Anna Andreeva
- MN 65:2 (2010) 297–356Kanazōshi Revisited: The Beginnings of Japanese Popular Literature in PrintLaura Moretti
- MN 65:2 (2010) 357–95From Art without Borders to Art for the Nation: Japanist Painting by Dokuritsu Bijutsu Kyōkai during the 1930s (Images)Mikiko Hirayama
- MN 65:2 (2010) 397–400Shōtoku: Ethnicity, Ritual, and Violence in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition by Michael I. ComoW. J. Boot
- MN 65:2 (2010) 400–402The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan by Karen M. GerhartHank Glassman
- MN 65:2 (2010) 402–406Women Religious Leaders in Japan’s Christian Century, 1549–1650 by Haruko Nawata WardJan C. Leuchtenberger
- MN 65:2 (2010) 406–409Makoto und Aufrichtigkeit: Eine Begriffs- und Diskursgeschichte by Gerhard BierwirthPeter Flueckiger
- MN 65:2 (2010) 409–12Hitomaro: Poet as God by Anne CommonsRoselee Bundy
- MN 65:2 (2010) 413–16The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865–1925 by Simon PartnerJames C. Baxter
- MN 65:2 (2010) 416–18Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 by Mark E. CaprioDon Baker
- MN 65:2 (2010) 418–22The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan by Ken C. KawashimaJeffrey Bayliss
- MN 65:2 (2010) 423–25Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan by Hiromi MizunoSally Ann Hastings
- MN 65:2 (2010) 425–29Japan’s Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shintō Ultranationalism by Walter A. SkyaHans Martin Krämer
- MN 65:2 (2010) 429–33Chinkon kishin: Mediated Spirit Possession in Japanese New Religions by Birgit StaemmlerBarbara Ambros
- MN 65:2 (2010) 433–35Becoming Modern Women: Love & Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature & Culture by Michiko SuzukiSusanna Fessler
- MN 65:2 (2010) 435–39Imag(in)ing the War in Japan: Representing and Responding to Trauma in Post-war Literature and Film ed. David Stahl, Mark WilliamsRichard Torrance
- MN 65:2 (2010) 439–42The Last Biwa Singer: A Blind Musician in History, Imagination and Performance by Hugh de FerrantiMathew W. Thompson
- MN 65:2 (2010) 442–45Atlas historique de Kyōto: Analyse spatiale des systèmes de mémoire d’une ville, de son architecture et de son paysage urbain by Nicolas FiévéHenry D. Smith II
- MN 65:2 (2010) 445–48Nature’s Embrace: Japan’s Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites by Satsuki KawanoIan Reader
- MN 65:2 (2010) 357–95From Art without Borders to Art for the Nation: Japanist Painting by Dokuritsu Bijutsu Kyōkai during the 1930sMikiko Hirayama
- MN 65:2 (2010) 2010Monumenta Nipponica Volume 65, Number 2, 2010
MN 65:1 (2010) 1–35From Global Entrepôt to Early Modern Domain: Hirado, 1609–1641Adam Clulow- MN 65:1 (2010) 37–88Meiji Kyoto Textile Art and TakashimayaHiroko T. McDermott
- MN 65:1 (2010) 89–136How Yasukuni Shrine Survived the Occupation: A Critical Examination of Popular ClaimsMark R. Mullins
- MN 65:1 (2010) 137–47Domesticating Kagerō: A Love That Dares Speak Its NameJoshua S. Mostow
- MN 65:1 (2010) 149–95Confucianism, Christianity, and Heterodoxy in Tokugawa JapanJames McMullen
- MN 65:1 (2010) 197–200Weaving and Binding: Immigrant Gods and Female Immortals in Ancient Japan by Michael ComoRichard Bowring
- MN 65:1 (2010) 200–202Teishinkōki: Year 939 in the Journal of Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira ed. Joan R. Piggott, Yoshida SanaeKarl F. Friday
- MN 65:1 (2010) 202–205Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen; Murmured Conversations: A Treatise on Poetry and Buddhism by the Poet-Monk Shinkei trans. Esperanza Ramirez-ChristensenRein Raud
- MN 65:1 (2010) 206–208Living Buddhist Statues in Early Medieval and Modern Japan by Sarah J. HortonFabio Rambelli
- MN 65:1 (2010) 208–12The Way of Shikishima: Waka Theory and Practice in Early Modern Japan by Roger K. ThomasJudit Árokay
- MN 65:1 (2010) 213–16Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Edo Japan by Laura NenziAndrew Bernstein
- MN 65:1 (2010) 217–21Traditionen idealisierter Weiblichkeit: Die “Kostbare Sammlung von Vorbildern weiblicher Weisheit” (Joyō chie kagami takaraori) als Paradebeispiel edo-zeitlicher Frauenbildung by Stephan KöhnBettina Gramlich-Oka
- MN 65:1 (2010) 221–24Civilization and Enlightenment: The Early Thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi by Albert M. CraigKōichirō Matsuda
- MN 65:1 (2010) 225–27The Meiji Restoration: Monarchism, Mass Communication and Conservative Revolution by Alistair D. SwaleJames L. Huffman
- MN 65:1 (2010) 227–31The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation by Alice Y. TsengDon Choi
- MN 65:1 (2010) 231–34Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings by Natsume Sōseki, ed. Michael K. Bourdaghs, Atsuko Ueda, Joseph A. Murphy; Reflections in a Glass Door: Memory and Melancholy in the Personal Writings of Natsume Sōseki by Marvin MarcusAngela Yiu
- MN 65:1 (2010) 235–37Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West by Shoji Yamada, trans. Earl HartmanJoseph S. O'Leary
- MN 65:1 (2010) 237–40Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen’s Critique and Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics by Christopher IvesMicah L. Auerback
- MN 65:1 (2010) 241–44Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan by Mariko Asano TamanoiKerry Smith