Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 58:2 (2003) 269–70Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School by James W. HeisigTadashi Karube- MN 58:2 (2003) 270–73Figures of Desire: Wordplay, Spirit Possession, Fantasy, Madness, and Mourning in Japanese Noh Plays by Etsuko TerasakiRichard A. Gardner
- MN 58:2 (2003) 273–76Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology 1600–1900 by Haruo ShiraneSonja Arntzen
- MN 58:2 (2003) 276–78Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll by Lawrence RogersAngela Yiu
- MN 58:2 (2003) 278–80Letting Go: The Story of Zen Master Tōsui by Peter Haskel; Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition: Hisamatsu’s Talks on Linji by Christopher Ives, Tokiwa GishinSteven Heine
- MN 58:2 (2003) 281–83Treatise on Epistolary Style: João Rodriguez on the Noble Art of Writing Japanese Letters by Jeroen Pieter LamersMichael Cooper
- MN 58:2 (2003) 284–86Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art by Wybe KuitertWalter Edwards
- MN 58:2 (2003) 286–89Identity and Resistance in Okinawa by Matthew AllenHidekazu Sensui
- MN 58:2 (2003) 289–91Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval by Merry Isaacs WhiteAmy Borovoy
- MN 58:2 (2003) 2003Monumenta Nipponica Volume 58, Number 2, 2003
MN 58:1 (2003) 1–42The Capacity of Chūshingura: Three Hundred Years of ChūshinguraHenry D. Smith II- MN 58:1 (2003) 43–78Terms of Understanding: The Shōsetsu according to Tayama KataiMatthew Fraleigh
- MN 58:1 (2003) 79–102Regendering Domestic Space: Modern Housing in Prewar TokyoMariko Inoue
- MN 58:1 (2003) 103–16Identity, Nihonjinron, and Academic (Dis) honestyIan Reader
- MN 58:1 (2003) 117–19João Rodrigues’s Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan by Michael CooperM. Antoni J. Ucerler
- MN 58:1 (2003) 119–22Le Voyage au Japon: Anthologie de Textes Français 1858–1908 by Patrick BeillevaireBeatrice M. Bodart Bailey
- MN 58:1 (2003) 122–25The Human Tradition in Modern Japan by Anne Walthall; Memories of Wind and Waves: A Self-Portrait of Lakeside Japan by Junichi Saga, Juliet Winters CarpenterHarald Fuess
- MN 58:1 (2003) 125–28The Political Thought of Mori Arinori: A Study in Meiji Conservatism by Alistair SwaleErnst Lokowandt
- MN 58:1 (2003) 128–30Colonial Modernity in Korea by Gi-Wook Shin, Michael RobinsonPeter Duus
- MN 58:1 (2003) 131–33A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization by Kerry SmithEdward E. Pratt
- MN 58:1 (2003) 133–36Housing in Postwar Japan: A Social History by Ann WaswoGail Lee Bernstein
- MN 58:1 (2003) 136–38Individual Dignity in Modern Japanese Thought: The Evolution of the Concept of “Jinkaku” in Moral and Educational Discourse by Kyoko InoueRikki Kersten
- MN 58:1 (2003) 139–41Abortion before Birth Control: The Politics of Reproduction in Postwar Japan by Tiana NorgrenUlrike Wöhr
- MN 58:1 (2003) 142–43Embracing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Rebirth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry by Janine BeichmanClaire Dodane
- MN 58:1 (2003) 143–46Ryōgen and Mount Hiei: Japanese Tendai in the Tenth Century by Paul GronerHank Glassman
- MN 58:1 (2003) 146–48Martin Heidegger im Denken Watsuji Tetsurōs by Hans Peter LiederbachJoseph S. O'Leary
- MN 58:1 (2003) 2003Monumenta Nipponica Volume 58, Number 1, 2003
MN 57:4 (2002) 423–45Zenrin kokuhōki (Part 2)Zuikei Shūhō, Translated by Charlotte von Verschuer- MN 57:4 (2002) 413–45Japan’s Foreign Relations 1200 to 1392 A.D.: A Translation from “Zenrin Kokuhōki”Charlotte von Verschuer
- MN 57:4 (2002) 447–71Journeys, Pilgrimages, Excursions: Religious Travels in the Early Modern PeriodLaura Nenzi and Toshikazu Shinno
- MN 57:4 (2002) 473–507Koganei Kimiko: A Meiji-Born Woman WriterAngela Yiu
- MN 57:4 (2002) 509–528Digitalizing Japanese ArtHenry D. Smith II and Matthew P. McKelway
- MN 57:4 (2002) 529–531L’Office des études supérieures au Japon du VIIe au XIIe siècle et les dissertations des fin d’études by Atsuko CeugnietRobert Borgen
- MN 57:4 (2002) 531–534L’Enseignement de la lecture au Japon: Politique et éducation by Christian GalanDimitri Vanoverbeke
- MN 57:4 (2002) 534–536Song in an Age of Discord: The Journal of Sōchō and Poetic Life in Late Medieval Japan by H. Mack Horton; The Journal of Sōchō by H. Mack HortonRoselee Bundy
- MN 57:4 (2002) 536–539The Chrysanthemum and the Fish: Japanese Humor Since the Age of the Shoguns by Howard HibbettRichard A. Gardner
- MN 57:4 (2002) 539–542A History of Japanese Religion by Kazuo Kasahara, Paul McCarthy, Gaynor SekimoriBarbara Ambros
- MN 57:4 (2002) 542–545The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism: A Study and Translation of Gyōnen’s Jōdo Hōmon Genrushō by Mark L. BlumJames L. Ford
- MN 57:4 (2002) 545–547Zen and Philosophy: An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitarō by Michiko YusaJames W. Heisig
- MN 57:4 (2002) 548–550Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905–1931 by Gennifer WeisenfeldBert Winther-Tamaki
- MN 57:4 (2002) 550–553Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema: Towards a Political Reading of the “Tragic Hero” by Isolde StandishSharalyn Orbaugh
- MN 57:4 (2002) 553–554The History and Culture of Japanese Food by Naomichi IshigeMark J. Hudson
- MN 57:4 (2002) 2002Monumenta Nipponica Volume 57, Number 4, 2002
MN 57:3 (2002) 271–307Secret Buddhas: The Limits of Buddhist RepresentationFabio Rambelli- MN 57:3 (2002) 309–37The Unfinished Cartography: Murakami Haruki and the Postmodern Cognitive MapChiyoko Kawakami
- MN 57:3 (2002) 339–48“A” RevisitedRichard A. Gardner
- MN 57:3 (2002) 349–58The Ambiguous Legacy of Modern Japanese PhilosophyJohn C. Maraldo
- MN 57:3 (2002) 359–72The Polymorphous Canon: Identity and InventionPaul Gordon Schalow