Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 51:1 (1996) 81–105The Nishida Enigma: ‘The Principle of the New World Order’Yoko Arisaka- MN 51:1 (1996) 100–105The Principle of the New World Order: Sekai Shin-Chitsujo no GenriKitarō Nishida, Translated by Yoko Arisaka
- MN 51:1 (1996) 107–20Japan in 1995
- MN 51:1 (1996) 121–23Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos VaporisLuke S. Roberts
- MN 51:1 (1996) 123–25Motoori Norinaga’s ‘The Two Shrines of Ise: An Essay of Split Bamboo’ by Mark TeeuwenJohn Allen Tucker
- MN 51:1 (1996) 125–27Learning To Be Modern: Japanese Political Discourse on Education by Byron K. MarshallEdward R. Beauchamp
- MN 51:1 (1996) 128–30Neighborhood and Nation in Tokyo, 1905–1937 by Sally Ann HastingsStephen S. Large
- MN 51:1 (1996) 130–33Japan in Traditional and Postmodern Perspectives by Charles Weihsun Fu, Steven HeineJamie Hubbard
- MN 51:1 (1996) 134–36The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono by Joan B. Mirviss, John T. CarpenterMatthi Forrer
- MN 51:1 (1996) 136–39Ceremony and Ritual in Japan: Religious Practices in an Industralized Society by Jan van Bremen, D. P. MartinezDavid W. Plath
- MN 51:1 (1996) 139–41Japanese Workers in Protest: An Ethnography of Consciousness and Experience by Christena L. TurnerAndrew Gordon
- MN 51:1 (1996) 1996Monumenta Nipponica Volume 51, Number 1, 1996
MN 50:4 (1995) 433–84The Shogun’s ‘Painting Match’Karen L. Brock- MN 50:4 (1995) 485–521The Visions of a Creative Artist: Zenchiku’s Rokurin Ichiro Treatises (Part 3)Zenchiku, Translated by Mark J. Nearman
- MN 50:4 (1995) 523–528Beauty and Illusion: Tanizaki in VenicePaul McCarthy
- MN 50:4 (1995) 529–535A Poetics of Pure ArtLeith Morton
- MN 50:4 (1995) 537–550Nikolai of JapanEvgeny Steiner
- MN 50:4 (1995) 551–553Dreams of Difference: The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity by Kevin Michael DoakPaul Anderer
- MN 50:4 (1995) 553–555La pensée de Kobayashi Hideo: Un intellectuel japonais au tournant de l’histoire by Ninomiya MasayukiRoy Starrs
- MN 50:4 (1995) 555–558A Guide to Ezra Pound and Ernest Fenollosa’s ‘Classic Noh Theatre of Japan’ by Akiko Miyake, Sanehide Kodama, Nicholas TeeleEileen Katō
- MN 50:4 (1995) 558–560Documentos del Japón, 1547–1557 by Juan Ruiz-de-Medina; Documentos del Japón, 1558–1562 by Juan Ruiz-de-MedinaMichael Cooper
- MN 50:4 (1995) 560–562The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan by Eiko IkegamiH. Paul Varley
- MN 50:4 (1995) 562–566Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan: The Case of Kaga Domain by Philip C. BrownRonald P. Toby
- MN 50:4 (1995) 566–569The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750–1920 by Kären WigenNeil L. Waters
- MN 50:4 (1995) 569–572Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era by James L. McClain, John M. Merriman, Ugawa KaoruPaul Waley
- MN 50:4 (1995) 572–574Capitalism From Within: Economy, Society, and the State in a Japanese Fishery by David L. HowellBrett L. Walker
- MN 50:4 (1995) 574–576Nitobe Inazō: Japan’s Bridge Across the Pacific by John HowesSally Ann Hastings
- MN 50:4 (1995) 577–579Architects of Affluence: The Tsutsumi Family and the Seibu Enterprises in 20th-Century Japan by Thomas R. H. HavensGary D. Allinson
- MN 50:4 (1995) 579–581Haiga: Takebe Sōchō and the Haiku-Painting Tradition by Stephen AddissJoan H. O'Mara
- MN 50:4 (1995) 581–583An American in Japan, 1945–1948: A Civilian View of the Occupation by Jacob Van StaaverenGary DeCoker
- MN 50:4 (1995) 583–586Japanese New Religions in the West by Peter B. Clarke, Jeffrey SomersRichard Fox Young
- MN 50:4 (1995) 586–590Les Mathématiques japonaises à l’époque d’Edo (1600–1868): Une étude des travaux de Seki Takakazu (?–1708) et de Takebe Katahiro (1664–1739) by Annick HoriuchiDénes Nagy
- MN 50:4 (1995) 1995Monumenta Nipponica Volume 50, Number 4, 1995
MN 50:3 (1995) 281–303The Visions of a Creative Artist: Zenchiku’s Rokurin Ichiro Treatises (Part 2)Zenchiku, Translated by Mark J. Nearman- MN 50:3 (1995) 305–23The Literature and Politics of Abe Kōbō: Farewell to Communism in Suna no OnnaMutsuko Motoyama
- MN 50:3 (1995) 325–56Women, Sexuality, and Enlightenment: Kankyo no TomoRajyashree Pandey
- MN 50:3 (1995) 357–84Ōe no Masafusa and the Spirit of MichizaneRobert Borgen
- MN 50:3 (1995) 385–86In Memoriam: Marian Ury 1932–1995Robert Borgen
- MN 50:3 (1995) 387–89Genji and Heike: Selections from ‘The Tale of Genji’ and ‘The Tale of the Heike’ by Helen Craig McCulloughThomas H. Rohlich
- MN 50:3 (1995) 389–92The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction by Dennis C. WashburnAnn Sherif
- MN 50:3 (1995) 392–94The Secret Window: Ideal Worlds in Tanizaki’s Fiction by Anthony Hood ChambersRoy Starrs
- MN 50:3 (1995) 394–96Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb by John Whittier TreatDavid G. Goodman
- MN 50:3 (1995) 396–99The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto by Mary Elizabeth BerryMartin Collcutt
- MN 50:3 (1995) 400–401Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan by Arne KallandConrad Totman
- MN 50:3 (1995) 401–403Master Sorai’s Responsals: An Annotated Translation of ‘Sorai Sensei Tōmon-sho’ by Samuel Hideo YamashitaJames McMullen
- MN 50:3 (1995) 403–406Japan’s Treaty Ports and Foreign Settlements: The Uninvited Guests, 1858–1899 by J. E. HoareF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 50:3 (1995) 406–408Japan’s Early Parliaments, 1890–1905: Structure, Issues and Trends by Andrew Fraser, R. H. P. Mason, Philip MitchellGeorge Akita
- MN 50:3 (1995) 408–11The Way of the Heavenly Sword: The Japanese Army in the 1920s by Leonard A. HumphreysWilliam Miles Fletcher III