Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 54:1 (1999) 157–59On the Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass by Carolyn S. StevensGlenda S. Roberts- MN 54:1 (1999) 160–62The Films of Oshima Nagisa: Images of a Japanese Iconoclast by Maureen TurimAkira Mizuta Lippit
- MN 54:1 (1999) 162–65Armed Martial Arts of Japan: Swordsmanship and Archery by G. Cameron Hurst IIIThomas Conlan
- MN 54:1 (1999) 166Errata
- MN 54:1 (1999) 1999Monumenta Nipponica Volume 54, Number 1, 1999
MN 53:4 (1998) 427–72The Poet and the Politician: Teika and the Compilation of the ShinchokusenshūIvo Smits- MN 53:4 (1998) 473–98The Significance of Bodies in Sōseki’s KokoroStephen Dodd
- MN 53:4 (1998) 499–515Japaneseness and the History of the BookHenry D. Smith II
- MN 53:4 (1998) 517–527The Sun Also Rises: Go-Daigo in RevoltReinhard Zöllner
- MN 53:4 (1998) 529–547Her Story So FarMark Morris
- MN 53:4 (1998) 549–551The Formation of the Canon of Nō: The Literary Tradition of Divine Authority by Gerry Yokota-MurakamiSusan Blakeley Klein
- MN 53:4 (1998) 552–554Studies in the Comic Spirit in Modern Japanese Fiction by Joel R. CohnJanice Brown
- MN 53:4 (1998) 554–557Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600–1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu by John S. BrownleeMargaret Mehl
- MN 53:4 (1998) 557–560Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: From the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century by Etsuko Hae-Jin KangNam-lin Hur
- MN 53:4 (1998) 560–562History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Margaret MehlBob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- MN 53:4 (1998) 563–565The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan by Nimura Kazuo, Andrew Gordon, Terry BoardmanSally Ann Hastings
- MN 53:4 (1998) 565–568Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism by Louise YoungSheldon Garon
- MN 53:4 (1998) 568–570Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan by Peter WetzlerStephen S. Large
- MN 53:4 (1998) 571–573Re-Inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation by Tessa Morris-SuzukiBruce L. Batten
- MN 53:4 (1998) 573–575Zen at War by Brian (Daizen) A. VictoriaWilliam M. Bodiford
- MN 53:4 (1998) 575–577The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan: A Study of Their Development, Beliefs and Rituals to the Present Day by Stephen TurnbullPeter Nosco
- MN 53:4 (1998) 577–579Japan’s Golden Age: Momoyama by Money L. HickmanMartin Collcutt
- MN 53:4 (1998) 580–582The Stars Who Created Kabuki: Their Lives, Loves and Legacy by Laurence R. KominzLinda C. Ehrlich
- MN 53:4 (1998) 582–585The Folk Performing Arts: Traditional Culture in Contemporary Japan by Barbara E. ThornburyJane Marie Law
- MN 53:4 (1998) 585–587Arnold Fancks “Die Tochter des Samurai”: Nationalsozialistische Propaganda und Japanische Filmpolitik by Janine HansenGerhard Krebs
- MN 53:4 (1998) 587–589The Japanese Way of Tea: From Its Origins in China to Sen Rikyū by Sen Sōshitsu XV, V. Dixon MorrisLee A. Butler
- MN 53:4 (1998) 590Errata
- MN 53:4 (1998) 1998Monumenta Nipponica Volume 53, Number 4, 1998
MN 53:3 (1998) 303–34Trade, Money, and Merchants in Nara JapanWilliam Wayne Farris- MN 53:3 (1998) 335–58Tokugawa Translations of Dutch Legal TextsF. B. Verwayen
- MN 53:3 (1998) 359–73From Grand Narrative to YakisobaF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 53:3 (1998) 375–81Medieval and Early Modern Shinto ReconsideredYūichirō Tajiri
- MN 53:3 (1998) 383–86Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry by Edward KamensJoshua S. Mostow
- MN 53:3 (1998) 386–88The Kagero Diary: A Woman’s Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan by Sonja ArntzenLynne K. Miyake
- MN 53:3 (1998) 388–92Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) by Fujitsu Social Science Laboratory Limited; Heike Monogatari (The Tale of Heike) by Fujitsu Social Science Laboratory LimitedAileen Gatten
- MN 53:3 (1998) 392–95Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan by Dennis Washburn, Alan TansmanJoel Cohn
- MN 53:3 (1998) 395–98The Origins of Japan’s Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century by Jeffrey P. MassSuzanne Gay
- MN 53:3 (1998) 398–400Proliferating Talent: Essays on Politics, Thought, and Education in the Meiji Era by Motoyama Yukihiko, J. S. A. Elisonas, Richard RubingerNeil L. Waters
- MN 53:3 (1998) 400–402Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism 1900–1937 by Vera MackieBarbara Molony
- MN 53:3 (1998) 402–404Society and State in Interwar Japan by Elise K. TiptonWilliam Miles Fletcher III
- MN 53:3 (1998) 405–409The Pure Land Tradition: History and Development by James Foard, Michael Solomon, Richard K. Payne; The Collected Works of Shinran by Dennis Hirota, Hisao Inagaki, Michio Tokunaga, Ryushin Uryuzu; Popular Buddhism in Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion and Culture. by Esben Andreasen; Interpreting Amida: History and Orientalism in the Study of Pure Land Buddhism. by Galen AmstutzRichard A. Gardner
- MN 53:3 (1998) 409–11The Politics of Reclusion: Painting and Power in Momoyama Japan by Kendall H. BrownJoseph D. Parker
- MN 53:3 (1998) 411–15The Nasser D. Khalili Collection: Decorative Arts of Meiji Japan by Oliver Impey, Malcolm Fairley; Meiji no Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan; Masterpieces by Shibata Zeshin by Joe EarleHugh Wylie
- MN 53:3 (1998) 416–18An Introduction to Japanese Society by Yoshio SugimotoDavid H. Slater
- MN 53:3 (1998) 419–20Japan’s Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity by Michael WeinerJohn Lie
- MN 53:3 (1998) 421–22The Japanese Family System in Transition: A Sociological Analysis of Family Change in Postwar Japan by Emiko OchiaiRalph Lützeler
- MN 53:3 (1998) 423–25Packaged Japaneseness: Weddings, Business and Brides by Ofra Goldstein-GidoniTom Gill
- MN 53:3 (1998) 1998Monumenta Nipponica Volume 53, Number 3, 1998