Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 57:1 (2002) 110–12Obaku Zen: The Emergence of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan by Helen J. BaroniMartin Collcutt- MN 57:1 (2002) 112–14Writing Margins: The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan by Terry KawashimaRajyashree Pandey
- MN 57:1 (2002) 115–17Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature by Philip GabrielDavinder L. Bhowmik
- MN 57:1 (2002) 117–19Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West: Psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics by Steve OdinJoseph S. O'Leary
- MN 57:1 (2002) 120–21Language Planning and Language Change in Japan by Tessa CarrollNanette Gottlieb
- MN 57:1 (2002) 122–23Tezuka Osamu: Figuren, Themen und Erzählstrukturen im Manga-Gesamtwerk by Susanne PhillippsMegumi Maderdonner
- MN 57:1 (2002) 124–26The Changing Face of Japanese Retail: Working in a Chainstore by Louella MatsunagaAviad Raz
- MN 57:1 (2002) 126–29Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan by Tom GillMatthew Marr
- MN 57:1 (2002) 129–32Closing the Shop: Information Cartels and Japan’s Mass Media by Laurie Anne FreemanVerena Blechinger
- MN 57:1 (2002) 2002Monumenta Nipponica Volume 57, Number 1, 2002
MN 56:4 (2001) 459–86In Praise of The Tale of GenjiAkiko Yosano, Translated by G. G. Rowley- MN 56:4 (2001) 439–86Yosano Akiko’s Poems: “In Praise of The Tale of Genji”G. G. Rowley
- MN 56:4 (2001) 487–520Taming the Wilderness: The Lifestyle Improvement Movement in Rural Japan, 1925–1965Simon Partner
- MN 56:4 (2001) 521–544The Nanking Massacre: Now You See It, . . .Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- MN 56:4 (2001) 545–547Bridging the Divide: 400 Years The Netherlands-Japan by Leonard Blussé, Willem Remmelink, Ivo SmitsWolfgang Michel
- MN 56:4 (2001) 547–549Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s by Elise K. Tipton, John ClarkJulia Adeney Thomas
- MN 56:4 (2001) 549–551Yanaihara Tadao and Japanese Colonial Policy by Susan C. TownsendDaqing Yang
- MN 56:4 (2001) 551–554The Poetics of Japanese Verse: Imagery, Structure, Meter by Kōji Kawamoto, Stephen Collington, Kevin Collins, Gustav HeldtAileen Gatten
- MN 56:4 (2001) 554–557Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism by Miryam SasSusan Napier
- MN 56:4 (2001) 557–558Amour, colère, couleur: Essais sur le bouddhisme au Japon by Bernard FrankHubert Durt
- MN 56:4 (2001) 558–560Der Eine und Einzige Weg der Götter: Yoshida Kanetomo und die Erfindung des Shinto by Bernhard ScheidMark Teeuwen
- MN 56:4 (2001) 561–563Initiation à la paléographie Japonaise à travers les manuscrits du pèlerinage de Shikoku by Nathalie KouaméBarbara Ambros
- MN 56:4 (2001) 563–567Max Weber und das moderne Japan by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Wolfgang SchwentkerMasahiro Noguchi
- MN 56:4 (2001) 567–570The Shogun’s Painted Culture: Fear and Creativity in the Japanese States 1760–1829 by Timon ScreechAdam L. Kern
- MN 56:4 (2001) 570–572Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architect’s Other Passion by Julia MeechJohn T. Carpenter
- MN 56:4 (2001) 572–574Word and Image in Japanese Cinema by Dennis Washburn, Carole CavanaughPaul Anderer
- MN 56:4 (2001) 574–577Multiethnic Japan by John LieTom Gill
- MN 56:4 (2001) 577–580Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society by Sharon KinsellaJohn Whittier Treat
- MN 56:4 (2001) 580–581Japan: Der andere Kulturführer by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitJames Farrer
- MN 56:4 (2001) 2001Monumenta Nipponica Volume 56, Number 4, 2001
MN 56:3 (2001) 305–47Chats with KensaiKensai, Translated by Steven D. Carter- MN 56:3 (2001) 295–347Chats with the Master: Selections from “Kensai Zōdan”Steven D. Carter
- MN 56:3 (2001) 349–80The Guild of the Blind in Tokugawa JapanGerald Groemer
- MN 56:3 (2001) 381–95Literacy Revisited: Some Reflections on Richard Rubinger’s FindingsPeter F. Kornicki
- MN 56:3 (2001) 397–403Considering the Alchemy of RelicsMimi Hall Yiengpruksawan
- MN 56:3 (2001) 405–406Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered by Jeroen LamersConrad Totman
- MN 56:3 (2001) 406–408The Satsuma Students in Britain: Japan’s Early Search for the “Essence of the West” by Andrew CobbingW. F. Vande Walle
- MN 56:3 (2001) 409–13History’s Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life by Harry Harootunian; Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan by Harry HarootunianSepp Linhart
- MN 56:3 (2001) 413–15The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600–2000. Volume II: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension, 1931–2000 by Ian Nish, Yoichi KibataRolf-Harald Wippich
- MN 56:3 (2001) 415–18Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan by Timothy S. GeorgeDavid Leheny
- MN 56:3 (2001) 418–22Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan by Rebecca L. Copeland; Women Writers of Meiji and Taishō Japan: Their Lives, Works, and Critical Reception, 1868–1926 by Yukiko TanakaAngela Yiu
- MN 56:3 (2001) 422–24A Study into the Thought of Kōgyō Daishi Kakuban: With a Translation of His “Gorin kuji myō himitsushaku” by Henny van der VeereBrian D. Ruppert
- MN 56:3 (2001) 425–27Shifting Shape Shaping Text: Philosophy and Folklore in the Fox Kōan by Steven HeineAlexander M. Kabanoff
- MN 56:3 (2001) 428–30From Austere Wabi to Golden Wabi: Philosophical and Aesthetic Aspects of Wabi in the Way of Tea by Minna TorniainenH. Paul Varley
- MN 56:3 (2001) 430–32Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement by Joanne BernardiJeffrey A. Dym
- MN 56:3 (2001) 433–34Learning to be Adolescent: Growing Up in U.S. and Japanese Middle Schools by Gerald K. LeTendreCatherine Lewis
- MN 56:3 (2001) 435–37Gambling with Virtue: Japanese Women and the Search for Self in a Changing Nation by Nancy RosenbergerYuko Ogasawara
- MN 56:3 (2001) 437–38Japanese Thought in the Tokugawa Era: A Bibliography of Western-Language Materials by Klaus KrachtPeter F. Kornicki