Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 60:2 (2005) 263–64The Tōkaidō Road: Traveling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan by Jilly TraganouLawrence E. Marceau- MN 60:2 (2005) 265–67Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543–1900 by Gary P. LeuppSusan L. Burns
- MN 60:2 (2005) 267–69Japan’s Early Experience of Contract Management in the Treaty Ports by Yuki Allyson HonjoJunko Ando
- MN 60:2 (2005) 269–72Hiratsuka Raichō and Early Japanese Feminism by Hiroko TomidaAndrea Germer
- MN 60:2 (2005) 272–75Historische Frauenforschung in Japan: Die Rekonstruktion der Vergangenheit in Takamure Itsues “Geschichte der Frau” (Josei no rekishi) by Andrea GermerUlrike Wöhr
- MN 60:2 (2005) 275–78At the House of Gathered Leaves: Short Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives from Japanese Court Literature by Joshua S. MostowLynne K. Miyake
- MN 60:2 (2005) 278–81Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature by Stephen DoddDennis Washburn
- MN 60:2 (2005) 281–83The Body in Postwar Japanese Fiction by Douglas N. SlaymakerJoseph S. O'Leary
- MN 60:2 (2005) 283–88Keigo in Modern Japan: Polite Language from Meiji to the Present by Patricia J. Wetzel; Rhetoric in Modern Japan: Western Influences on the Development of Narrative and Oratorical Style by Massimiliano TomasiNanette Gottlieb
- MN 60:2 (2005) 288–90Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World by Theodore BestorAnne Allison
- MN 60:2 (2005) 290–93Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village: The Making and Becoming of Person and Place by D. P. MartinezBirgit Staemmler
- MN 60:2 (2005) 293–95The Koto: A Traditional Instrument in Contemporary Japan by Henry JohnsonDavid Waterhouse
- MN 60:2 (2005) 2005Monumenta Nipponica Volume 60, Number 2, 2005
MN 60:1 (2005) 1–41“Washing Off the Dust”: Baths and Bathing in Late Medieval JapanLee A. Butler- MN 60:1 (2005) 65–79Jōkei’s Five Part Miroku Kōshiki (c. 1196): A TranslationJōkei, Translated by James L. Ford
- MN 60:1 (2005) 43–79Competing with Amida: A Study and Translation of Jōkei’s Miroku KōshikiJames L. Ford
- MN 60:1 (2005) 81–110Local Officials and the Meiji Conscription CampaignHiroko Rokuhara
- MN 60:1 (2005) 111–12House and Home in Modern Japan: Reforming Everyday Life, 1880–1930 by Jordan SandAnn Waswo
- MN 60:1 (2005) 112–15Frauenerziehung und Frauenbild im Umbruch: Ideale von Mädchenerziehung, Frauenrolle und weiblichen Lebensentwürfen in der frühen Jogaku zasshi (1885–1889) by Nadja Kischka-WellhäusserMargaret Mehl
- MN 60:1 (2005) 115–18Women and the Labour Market in Japan’s Industrialising Economy: The Textile Industry before the Pacific War by Janet HunterBarbara Molony
- MN 60:1 (2005) 118–21Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan by Sabine FrühstückSally Ann Hastings
- MN 60:1 (2005) 121–23Toshié: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan by Simon PartnerMariko Asano Tamanoi
- MN 60:1 (2005) 123–28Practicing the Afterlife: Perspectives from Japan ed. Susanne Formanek, William LaFleur; Bereavement and Consolation: Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan by Harold BolithoFabio Rambelli
- MN 60:1 (2005) 128–31Practical Pursuits: Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Janine Tasca SawadaBarbara Ambros
- MN 60:1 (2005) 131–34Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity by Tomiko YodaJoshua S. Mostow
- MN 60:1 (2005) 134–37The Ethos of Noh: Actors and Their Art by Eric C. RathGerald Groemer
- MN 60:1 (2005) 137–40Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity by Maeda Ai, ed. James FujiiIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 60:1 (2005) 140–43The Artist as Professional in Japan ed. Melinda TakeuchiQuitman E. Phillips
- MN 60:1 (2005) 143–45Critical Perspectives on Classicism in Japanese Painting, 1600–1700 ed. Elizabeth LillehojFrank Chance
- MN 60:1 (2005) 2005Monumenta Nipponica Volume 60, Number 1, 2005
MN 59:4 (2004) 431–61Early Buddhist Kanshi: Court, Country, and KūkaiPaul Rouzer- MN 59:4 (2004) 463–92Slavery in Medieval JapanThomas Nelson
- MN 59:4 (2004) 500–524Enmei Jizōson Inkō Riyakuki: A Record of the Benefits in Printing the Image of the Life-Prolonging JizōEnmei Jizōson Inkō Riyakuki, Translated by Duncan Ryūken Williams
- MN 59:4 (2004) 493–524Edo-Period Tales of the Healing Jizō Bodhisattva: A Translation of “Enmei Jizōson Inkō Riyakuki”Duncan Ryūken Williams
- MN 59:4 (2004) 525–533Paradigm Regained: Taking Syncretism SeriouslyD. Max Moerman
- MN 59:4 (2004) 535–538The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto by Suzanne GayAndrew Edmund Goble
- MN 59:4 (2004) 538–541Pre-Industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective by Conrad TotmanBruce L. Batten
- MN 59:4 (2004) 541–543Frontier Contact between Chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan by James B. LewisDavid L. Howell
- MN 59:4 (2004) 544–546Japans Karneval der Krise: Ējanaika und die Meiji-Renovation by Reinhard ZöllnerKlaus Antoni
- MN 59:4 (2004) 547–549Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600–2000 by Harald FuessGail Lee Bernstein
- MN 59:4 (2004) 549–552A Vision of Empire: Kita Ikki and the Making of Modern Japan by Brij TankhaBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 59:4 (2004) 552–555Novel Japan: Spaces of Nationhood in Early Meiji Narrative, 1870–88 by John Pierre MertzRichard Torrance
- MN 59:4 (2004) 555–558The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese Nationalism by Michael K. BourdaghsChia-Ning Chang
- MN 59:4 (2004) 558–561Under an Imperial Sun: Japanese Colonial Literature of Taiwan and the South by Faye Yuan KleemanMichael Molasky
- MN 59:4 (2004) 562–565Bodies of Evidence: Women, Society, and Detective Fiction in 1990s Japan by Amanda C. SeamanSharalyn Orbaugh
- MN 59:4 (2004) 565–567Orienting Arthur Waley: Japonism, Orientalism, and the Creation of Japanese Literature in English by John Walter de GruchyMachiko Midorikawa
- MN 59:4 (2004) 567–569The Prints of Isoda Koryūsai: Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth-Century Japan by Allen HockleyVictoria Weston
- MN 59:4 (2004) 569–572Japan’s Modern Theatre: A Century of Continuity and Change by Brian PowellPeter Eckersall