Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 55:2 (2000) 296–98Modern Girls, Shining Stars, The Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women by Phyllis BirnbaumRichmod Bollinger- MN 55:2 (2000) 298–300Soundings in Time: The Fictive Art of Yasunari Kawabata by Roy StarrsGiorgio Amitrano
- MN 55:2 (2000) 300–302The Legend of Gold and Other Stories by Ishikawa Jun, William J. TylerAngela Yiu
- MN 55:2 (2000) 302–305Mirror: The Fiction and Essays of Kōda Aya by Ann SherifMaryellen Toman Mori
- MN 55:2 (2000) 305–307Ōe and Beyond: Fiction in Contemporary Japan by Stephen Snyder, Philip GabrielSeiji M. Lippit
- MN 55:2 (2000) 307–10Buddhistische Zeremoniale [Kōshiki] und ihre Bedeutung für die Literatur des japanischen Mittelalters by Niels GülbergHartmut O. Rotermund
- MN 55:2 (2000) 310–12The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship by Karen A. SmyersKlaus Antoni
- MN 55:2 (2000) 312–15The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan. With the Autobiography of Takahashi Chikuzan by Gerald GroemerIngrid Fritsch
- MN 55:2 (2000) 315–17Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland by Aviad E. RazAnne Allison
- MN 55:2 (2000) 317–19Wörterbücher und Glossare. Eine teilannotierte Bibliographie japanisch-deutscher und deutsch-japanischer Nachschlagewerke. Wa-Doku Doku-Wa jisho, yōgoshū kaidai by Jürgen Stalph, Harald SuppanschitschHartmut Walravens
- MN 55:2 (2000) 321–23CorrespondenceJohn Allen Tucker
- MN 55:2 (2000) 2000Monumenta Nipponica Volume 55, Number 2, 2000
MN 55:1 (2000) 14–43Record of an Autumn WindArii Shokyū, Translated by Hiroaki Sato- MN 55:1 (2000) 1–43Record of an Autumn Wind: The Travel Diary of Arii ShokyūHiroaki Sato
- MN 55:1 (2000) 45–81Elegance, Prosperity, Crisis: Three Generations of Tokugawa Village ElitesBrian W. Platt
- MN 55:1 (2000) 83–108Kajin no Kigū: The Meiji Political Novel and the Boundaries of LiteratureAtsuko Sakaki
- MN 55:1 (2000) 109–20His Story of Japan: Engelbert Kaempfer’s Manuscript in a New TranslationWolfgang Michel
- MN 55:1 (2000) 121–23Osaka: The Merchants’ Capital of Early Modern Japan by James L. McClain, Wakita OsamuAnne Walthall
- MN 55:1 (2000) 124–27The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain: Early Travel Encounters in the Far West by Andrew Cobbing; The Iwakura Mission in America and Europe: A New Assessment by Ian NishM. William Steele
- MN 55:1 (2000) 128–29Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. DowerSimon Partner
- MN 55:1 (2000) 129–32Entstehung und Morphologie des klassischen Kyōgen im 17. Jahrhundert: Vom mittelalterlichen Theater der Aussenseiter zum Kammerspiel des Shogunats by Stanca Scholz-CioncaGünter Zobel
- MN 55:1 (2000) 132–35Wandering Heart: The Work and Method of Hayashi Fumiko by Susanna FesslerEve Zimmerman
- MN 55:1 (2000) 135–38Gender Is Fair Game: (Re)Thinking the (Fe)Male in the Works of Ōba Minako by Michiko Niikuni WilsonEileen B. Mikals-Adachi
- MN 55:1 (2000) 138–39Wasser-Spuren: Festschrift für Wolfram Naumann zum 65. Geburtstag by Stanca Scholz-CioncaJohann Nawrocki
- MN 55:1 (2000) 139–42Hōnen’s Senchakushū: Passages on the Selection of the Nembutsu in the Original Vow (Senchaku hongan nembutsu shū) by Senchakushū English Translation ProjectDennis Hirota
- MN 55:1 (2000) 142–44Japans Blinde Sänger im Schutz der Gottheit Myōon-Benzaiten by Ingrid FritschSilvain Guignard
- MN 55:1 (2000) 144–46Practically Religious: Worldly Benefits and the Common Religion of Japan by Ian Reader, George J. Tanabe, Jr.Karen A. Smyers
- MN 55:1 (2000) 147–49Interkulturelle Philosophie und Phänomenologie in Japan by Tadashi Ogawa, Michael Lazarin, Guido RappeJoseph S. O'Leary
- MN 55:1 (2000) 149–52Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory by Lisa YoneyamaGerald Figal
- MN 55:1 (2000) 152–54Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts in Early Muromachi Japan (1336–1573) by Joseph D. ParkerSonja Arntzen
- MN 55:1 (2000) 154–57Hiraizumi: Buddhist Art and Regional Politics in Twelfth-Century Japan by Mimi Hall YiengpruksawanSamuel C. Morse
- MN 55:1 (2000) 157–59Pachinko monogatari: Soziokulturelle Exploration der japanischen Glücks- spielindustrie by Wolfram ManzenreiterStanca Scholz-Cionca
- MN 55:1 (2000) 2000Monumenta Nipponica Volume 55, Number 1, 2000
MN 54:4 (1999) 435–80“I Am I”: Genji and MurasakiRoyall Tyler- MN 54:4 (1999) 481–507From Conqueror of Evil to Devil King: Ryōgen and Notions of Ma in Medieval Japanese BuddhismHaruko Wakabayashi
- MN 54:4 (1999) 509–520Itō Jinsai and the Meanings of WordsI. J. McMullen
- MN 54:4 (1999) 521–528War, Memory, Literature: Does Comparison Make Sense?Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 54:4 (1999) 529–531Visions of Ryukyu: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics by Gregory SmitsLuke S. Roberts
- MN 54:4 (1999) 531–536The Spirit of Japanese Law by John Owen Haley; Der deutsche Anteil an der Gestaltung des modernen japanischen Rechts- und Verfassungswesens: Deutsche Rechtsberater im Japan der Meiji-Zeit by Paul-Christian SchenckF. B. Verwayen
- MN 54:4 (1999) 536–538Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan by William M. TsutsuiMatthias Koch
- MN 54:4 (1999) 538–540The Japanese Empire in East Asia and Its Postwar Legacy by Harald FuessDouglas R. Reynolds
- MN 54:4 (1999) 541–543Japanische Religionspolitik in der Mongolei 1932–1945: Reformbestrebungen und Dialog zwischen japanischem und mongolischem Buddhismus by Li NarangoaPeter Kleinen
- MN 54:4 (1999) 543–546The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan’s National Shame by Honda Katsuichi, Frank Gibney, Karen SandnessJoshua A. Fogel
- MN 54:4 (1999) 546–548The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan by Andrew GordonWilliam M. Tsutsui
- MN 54:4 (1999) 549–552Chaos and Order in the Works of Natsume Sōseki by Angela Yiu; Rereading Sōseki: Three Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Novels by Reiko Abe AuestadStephen Dodd
- MN 54:4 (1999) 552–555Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katue (1902–1978) by John SoltMiryam Sas
- MN 54:4 (1999) 555–556Kata-imi et Kata-tagae: Étude sur les interdits de direction à époque Heian by Bernard FrankCharlotte von Verschuer
- MN 54:4 (1999) 556–558The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality by Bernard FaureWilliam R. LaFleur