Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 43:3 (1988) 377–79Double Eagle and Rising Sun: The Russians and Japanese at Portsmouth in 1905 by Raymond A. EsthusRobert B. Valliant- MN 43:3 (1988) 379–81Nan’yō: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885–1945 by Mark R. PeattieHenry Frei
- MN 43:3 (1988) 381–83Becoming Japanese: The World of the Pre-School Child by Joy HendryAnne E. Murase
- MN 43:3 (1988) 383–86The World of the Meiji Print: Impressions of a New Civilization by Julia Meech-PekarikHenry D. Smith II
- MN 43:3 (1988) 386–88Paris in Japan: The Japanese Encounter with European Painting by Shūji Takashina, J. Thomas Rimer, Gerald D. BolasFrederick Baekeland
- MN 43:3 (1988) 388–89The Gould Collection of Netsuke: Miniature Sculptures from Japan by Hugh WylieRaymond Bushell
- MN 43:3 (1988) 1988Monumenta Nipponica Volume 43, Number 3, 1988
MN 43:2 (1988) 133–52The Hybrid Narrative of Kyōden’s SharebonJ. Scott Miller- MN 43:2 (1988) 153–85Teeth and Claws: Provincial Warriors and the Heian CourtKarl F. Friday
- MN 43:2 (1988) 187–96Seisen’in and His Sketches: A Kanō Master and Edo CastlePenelope E. Mason
- MN 43:2 (1988) 197–228Secret Teachings in Medieval Calligraphy: Jubokushō and Saiyōshō (Part 1)Gary DeCoker
- MN 43:2 (1988) 210–28JubokushōSon'en, Translated by Gary DeCoker
- MN 43:2 (1988) 229–31CorrespondenceCarl Steenstrup and J. Mark Ramseyer
- MN 43:2 (1988) 233Robert H. Brower, 1923–1988
- MN 43:2 (1988) 235–36Das Kibyōshi ‘Happyakuman ryō kogane no kamibana’ von Santō Kyōden (1791): Ein Beitrag zur Edition japanischer Texte der Edo-Zeit by Santō Kyōden, Martina SchönbeinPeter F. Kornicki
- MN 43:2 (1988) 236–39Literary Life in Tōkyō 1885–1915: Tayama Katai’s Memoirs (‘Thirty Years in Tōkyō’) by Kenneth G. HenshallWilliam E. Naff
- MN 43:2 (1988) 239–41To Live and To Write: Selections by Japanese Women Writers, 1913–1938 by Yukiko TanakaChieko Irie Mulhern
- MN 43:2 (1988) 241–43The Mito Ideology: Discourse, Reform, and Insurrection in Late Tokugawa Japan, 1790–1864 by J. Victor KoschmannPeter Nosco
- MN 43:2 (1988) 244–45Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer of Western Organizational Patterns to Meiji Japan by D. Eleanor WestneyAndrew Fraser
- MN 43:2 (1988) 245–47Individualism and Socialism: Kawai Eijirō’s Life and Thought (1891–1944) by Atsuko HiraiBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 43:2 (1988) 247–49Democratizing Japan: The Allied Occupation by Robert E. Ward, Sakamoto YoshikazuGrant K. Goodman
- MN 43:2 (1988) 250–52Remaking Japan: The American Occupation as New Deal by Theodore Cohen, Herbert PassinThomas W. Burkman
- MN 43:2 (1988) 253–55No Abode: The Record of Ippen by Dennis HirotaJames C. Dobbins
- MN 43:2 (1988) 256–58The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyDavid W. Plath
- MN 43:2 (1988) 1988Monumenta Nipponica Volume 43, Number 2, 1988
MN 43:1 (1988) 1–33Kaempfer Restor’dBeatrice M. Bodart Bailey- MN 43:1 (1988) 35–61The Jeweled Comb-Box: Motoori Norinaga’s TamakushigeJohn S. Brownlee
- MN 43:1 (1988) 45–61TamakushigeMotoori Norinaga, Translated by John S. Brownlee
- MN 43:1 (1988) 63–93Old Stories, New Mode: Ejima Kiseki’s Ukiyo Oyaji KatagiCharles E. Fox
- MN 43:1 (1988) 78–93Ukiyo Oyaji KatagiEjima Kiseki, Translated by Charles E. Fox
- MN 43:1 (1988) 95–100Tribute to a Teacher: Uchimura Kanzō’s Letter to William Smith ClarkJanet E. Goff
- MN 43:1 (1988) 101–103The Tale of the Soga Brothers by Thomas J. CoganSusan Matisoff
- MN 43:1 (1988) 104–106The Mother of Dreams and Other Short Stories: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction by Makoto UedaPhyllis I. Lyons
- MN 43:1 (1988) 107–10A Play of Mirrors: Eight Major Poets of Modern Japan by Ōoka Makoto, Thomas FitzsimmonsRobert Epp
- MN 43:1 (1988) 110–12Victorians in Japan: In and around the Treaty Ports by Hugh Cortazzi; Japan in the Victorian Mind: A Study of Stereotyped Images of a Nation, 1850–80 by Toshio YokoyamaMichael Cooper
- MN 43:1 (1988) 112–15Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941 by Michael A. BarnhartAlvin D. Coox
- MN 43:1 (1988) 115–17Fire Across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan, 1965–1975 by Thomas R. H. HavensDavid J. Lu
- MN 43:1 (1988) 117–20Young Man Shinran: A Reappraisal of Shinran’s Life by Takamichi TakahatakeDennis Hirota
- MN 43:1 (1988) 120–22The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way: A Translation of Shinran’s Kyōgyōshinshō, Volume III by Yoshifumi UedaMinor Lee Rogers
- MN 43:1 (1988) 123–25Japanese Castles by Motoo Hinago, William H. CoaldrakeBruce A. Coats
- MN 43:1 (1988) 125–26Family Change and the Life Course in Japan by Susan Orpett LongAnne E. Imamura
- MN 43:1 (1988) 127–30Urban Japanese Housewives: At Home and in the Community by Anne E. Imamura; The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children by Merry WhiteWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 43:1 (1988) 130–31Country Textiles of Japan: The Art of Tsutsugaki by Reiko Mochinaga BrandonMarie Lyman
- MN 43:1 (1988) 1988Monumenta Nipponica Volume 43, Number 1, 1988
MN 42:4 (1987) 391–429The Foremost Style of Poetic Composition: Fujiwara Tameie’s Eiga no ItteiRobert H. Brower- MN 42:4 (1987) 399–429Eiga no ItteiFujiwara no Tameie, Translated by Robert H. Brower
- MN 42:4 (1987) 431–47School Songs Before and After the War: From ‘Children Tank Soldiers’ to ‘Everyone a Good Child’Ury Eppstein
- MN 42:4 (1987) 449–55First Steps into the Mountains: Motoori Norinaga’s UiyamabumiSey Nishimura