Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 75:1 (2020) 91–122The Massacre of Koreans in Yokohama in the Aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923Kenji Hasegawa- MN 75:1 (2020) 123–26How to Read a Japanese Poem by Steven D. CarterThomas E. McAuley
- MN 75:1 (2020) 126–31China and Japan: Facing History by Ezra F. VogelKenneth B. Pyle
- MN 75:1 (2020) 132–34A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea by William Wayne FarrisMartha Chaiklin
- MN 75:1 (2020) 135–37Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan by Rebecca CorbettRobert Hellyer
- MN 75:1 (2020) 138–43Transforming Empire in Japan and East Asia: The Taiwan Expedition and the Birth of Japanese Imperialism by Robert EskildsenYoshihisa Tak Matsusaka
- MN 75:1 (2020) 144–50The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868–1961 by Sidney Xu LuHannah Shepherd
- MN 75:1 (2020) 150–56Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan by Sabine FrühstückMichele M. Mason
- MN 75:1 (2020) 156–61Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace by Oleg Benesch and Ran ZwigenbergPhilip Seaton
- MN 75:1 (2020) 161–65Contesting the Myths of Samurai Baseball: Cultural Representations of Japan’s National Pastime by Christopher T. KeaveneyWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 75:1 (2020) 165–68Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community by Richard J. SamuelsDanny Orbach
- MN 75:1 (2020) 168–72Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire by David R. Ambaras; Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan’s Colonial Peoples by Kirsten L. ZiomekErik Esselstrom
- MN 75:1 (2020) 173–76Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan by Max M. WardTomoko Seto
- MN 75:1 (2020) 176–79Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan’s Pop Era and Its Discontents by Hiromu NagaharaShunsuke Nozawa
- MN 75:1 (2020) 179–81Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952 by Robert KrammBill Mihalopoulos
- MN 75:1 (2020) 182–84Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power by Sheila A. SmithGiulio Pugliese
- MN 75:1 (2020) 185–91Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo by Nick KapurPatricia G. Steinhoff
- MN 75:1 (2020) 191–96Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art by Susan NapierMihaela Mihailova
- MN 75:1 (2020) 197–99Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan by Daniel M. SmithMary Alice Haddad
- MN 75:1 (2020) 200–203Anti-Nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Tokyo: Power Struggles by Alexander BrownRobin O'Day
- MN 75:1 (2020) 2020Monumenta Nipponica Volume 75, Number 1, 2020
MN 74:2 (2019) 173–209How to Establish a Poetic School in Early Medieval Japan: Fujiwara no Shunzei’s Man’yōshū JidaikōMalgorzata Karolina Citko- MN 74:2 (2019) 201–209Reflections on the Man’yōshū EraFujiwara-no-Shunzei, Translated by Malgorzata Karolina Citko and Kei Umeda
- MN 74:2 (2019) 211–48Casting Spells: Combat Charms and Secret Scrolls in the Warrior Fiction of Late Medieval JapanR. Keller Kimbrough
- MN 74:2 (2019) 249–53Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission: The International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, ca. 645–770 by Dorothy C. WongAkiko Walley
- MN 74:2 (2019) 253–56Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan ed. Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. PiggottPierre François Souyri
- MN 74:2 (2019) 257–61Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishū Nuns of Medieval Japan by Caitilin J. GriffithsChristina Laffin
- MN 74:2 (2019) 261–64A Maritime History of East Asia ed. Masashi Haneda and Mihoko OkaAdam Clulow
- MN 74:2 (2019) 264–71The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves by Lúcio de SousaGeoffrey C. Gunn
- MN 74:2 (2019) 272–73Engaging the Other: ‘Japan’ and Its Alter Egos, 1550–1850 by Ronald P. TobyKären Wigen
- MN 74:2 (2019) 273–78Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan by Maren A. EhlersJames L. Huffman
- MN 74:2 (2019) 278–81Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan by James L. HuffmanTimothy D. Amos
- MN 74:2 (2019) 281–87Sōseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist by John NathanJ. Keith Vincent
- MN 74:2 (2019) 288–93Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945 by Kerim YasarScott W. Aalgaard
- MN 74:2 (2019) 293–97A Sense of the City: Modes of Urban Representation in the Works of Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) by Gala Maria FollacoRachael Hutchinson
- MN 74:2 (2019) 297–305Osaka Modern: The City in the Japanese Imaginary by Michael P. CroninAndrew Murakami-Smith
- MN 74:2 (2019) 305–307The History of US-Japan Relations: From Perry to the Present ed. Tosh MinoharaPeter Mauch
- MN 74:2 (2019) 307–12The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan: Histories and Cultures of the Book by Sari KawanaJonathan E. Abel
- MN 74:2 (2019) 312–15The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art during the Second World War by Asato IkedaMaki Kaneko
- MN 74:2 (2019) 316–19The Japanese and the War: From Expectation to Memory by Michael LuckenAaron William Moore
- MN 74:2 (2019) 319–22The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan by William W. KellyMichael Laver
- MN 74:2 (2019) 322–25Reorienting Ozu: A Master and His Influence ed. by Jinhee ChoiDavid Desser
- MN 74:2 (2019) 325–29Religion in Japanese Daily Life by David C. LewisJohn W. Traphagan
- MN 74:2 (2019) 329–32Diaspora and Identity: Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan by Mieko NishidaSarah LeBaron von Baeyer
- MN 74:2 (2019) 2019Monumenta Nipponica Volume 74, Number 2, 2019
MN 74:1 (2019) 170–72Contents Tourism in Japan: Pilgrimages to “Sacred Sites” of Popular Culture by Philip Seaton, Takayoshi Yamamura, Akiko Sugawa-Shimada, and Kyungjae JangTom Havens- MN 74:1 (2019) 165–70Interpreting Anime by Christopher Bolton; The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media by Thomas LamarreDeborah Shamoon
- MN 74:1 (2019) 161–64Intimacy and Reproduction in Contemporary Japan by Genaro Castro-VázquezAya Homei