Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 55:4 (2000) 593–595Misère et crime au Japon du XVIIe siècle à nos jours by Philippe PonsHerman Ooms- MN 55:4 (2000) 595–598Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensōji and Edo Society by Nam-lin HurConstantine Nomikos Vaporis
- MN 55:4 (2000) 598–599Remembering Aizu: The Testament of Shiba Gorō by Ishimitsu Mahito, Teruko CraigAnne Walthall
- MN 55:4 (2000) 600–602Japan Comes of Age: Mutsu Munemitsu and the Revision of the Unequal Treaties by Louis G. PerezGordon Mark Berger
- MN 55:4 (2000) 602–604Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer by Simon PartnerAnn Waswo
- MN 55:4 (2000) 605–606Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States by Laura Hein, Mark SeldenSebastian Conrad
- MN 55:4 (2000) 606–609The I Ching in Tokugawa Thought and Culture: Asian Interactions and Comparisons by Wai-ming NgW. J. Boot
- MN 55:4 (2000) 609–611Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan by John K. NelsonIan Reader
- MN 55:4 (2000) 612–614Yosano Akiko: Poète de la passion et figure de proue du féminisme japonais by Claire DodaneG. G. Rowley
- MN 55:4 (2000) 614–616Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji by G. G. RowleyLaurel Rasplica Rodd
- MN 55:4 (2000) 616–619Endō Shūsaku: A Literature of Reconciliation by Mark B. WilliamsIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 55:4 (2000) 619–622A Sheep’s Song: A Writer’s Reminiscences of Japan and the World by Katō Shūichi, Chia-ning ChangRichard Torrance
- MN 55:4 (2000) 622–624The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory by Michael S. MolaskyJames Dorsey
- MN 55:4 (2000) 625–627Harukor: An Ainu Woman’s Tale by Honda Katsuichi, Kyoko SeldenBrett L. Walker
- MN 55:4 (2000) 627–631Extraordinary Persons: Works by Eccentric, Nonconformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580–1868) in the Collection of Kimiko and John Powers by Kimiko Powers, John Powers, John M. Rosenfield, Fumiko E. Cranston, Naomi Noble RichardJohn T. Carpenter
- MN 55:4 (2000) 631–632Japanese Consumer Behavior: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers by John McCreeryMillie Creighton
- MN 55:4 (2000) 2000Monumenta Nipponica Volume 55, Number 4, 2000
MN 55:3 (2000) 327–68Shadows of Transgression: Heian and Kamakura Constructions of ProstitutionJanet R. Goodwin- MN 55:3 (2000) 374–98The Office of Metsuke: Interview with Yamaguchi Sensho, 16 May 1891Translated by Anna Beerens
- MN 55:3 (2000) 369–98Interview with a Bakumatsu Official: A Translation from Kyūji Shimonroku (Part 1)Anna Beerens
- MN 55:3 (2000) 399–427Song as Cultural History: Reading Wakan Rōeishū (Part 2: Interpretations)Ivo Smits
- MN 55:3 (2000) 429–39Nativism RestoredJohn Breen
- MN 55:3 (2000) 441–43Le monde à l’envers: La dynamique de la société médiévale by Pierre F. SouyriReinhard Zöllner
- MN 55:3 (2000) 443–45Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950 by Gregory M. PflugfelderMargaret H. Childs
- MN 55:3 (2000) 446–48Alexander von Siebold: Die Tagebücher by Vera SchmidtErnst Lokowandt
- MN 55:3 (2000) 448–51La nation en marche: Études sur le Japon impérial de Meiji by Jean-Jacques Tschudin, Claude HamonDimitri Vanoverbeke
- MN 55:3 (2000) 451–54Thomas William Kinder and the Japanese Imperial Mint, 1868–1875 by Roy S. HanashiroJames C. Baxter
- MN 55:3 (2000) 454–57Total War and ‘Modernization’ by Yasushi Yamanouchi, J. Victor Koschmann, Ryūichi NaritaAndrew E. Barshay
- MN 55:3 (2000) 457–59Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan by Yukiko KoshiroYoshikuni Igarashi
- MN 55:3 (2000) 459–61Fictions of Femininity: Literary Inventions of Gender in Japanese Court Women’s Memoirs by Edith SarraJoshua S. Mostow
- MN 55:3 (2000) 462–64Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Writers by Nina CornyetzNicola Liscutin
- MN 55:3 (2000) 465–67The Weaving of Mantra: Kūkai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse by Ryūichi AbéHendrik van der Veere
- MN 55:3 (2000) 467–70The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community by Scott SchnellEdmund T. Gilday
- MN 55:3 (2000) 470–73Max Weber in Japan: Eine Untersuchung zur Wirkungsgeschichte 1905–1995 by Wolfgang SchwentkerToshiyuki Mitoma
- MN 55:3 (2000) 473–75Learning in Likely Places: Varieties of Apprenticeship in Japan by John SingletonEyal Ben-Ari
- MN 55:3 (2000) 475–77Managing Decline: Japan’s Coal Industry Restructuring and Community Response by Suzanne CulterMatthew Allen
- MN 55:3 (2000) 477–79From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Film by Keiko I. McDonaldDavid Desser
- MN 55:3 (2000) 2000Monumenta Nipponica Volume 55, Number 3, 2000
MN 55:2 (2000) 163–98Who Can’t Read and Write? Illiteracy in Meiji JapanRichard Rubinger- MN 55:2 (2000) 199–224The Pleasure Quarters of Edo and Nanjing as Metaphor: The Records of Yu Huai and Narushima RyūhokuEmanuel Pastreich
- MN 55:2 (2000) 225–56Song as Cultural History: Reading Wakan Rōeishū (Part 1: Texts)Ivo Smits
- MN 55:2 (2000) 257–69Shunga: Function, Context, MethodologyAllen Hockley
- MN 55:2 (2000) 271–81Performing TheoryDennis Washburn
- MN 55:2 (2000) 283–85Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands by Mark J. HudsonBruce L. Batten
- MN 55:2 (2000) 285–88Heian Japan. Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Japan by Donald H. Shively, William H. McCulloughWilliam Wayne Farris
- MN 55:2 (2000) 288–91Even the Gods Rebel: The Peasants of Takaino and the 1871 Nakano Uprising in Japan by Selçuk EsenbelPatricia Sippel
- MN 55:2 (2000) 291–93War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914–1919 by Frederick R. DickinsonJames L. Huffman
- MN 55:2 (2000) 293–96Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Japan by Kathleen S. UnoDavid R. Ambaras