Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 74:1 (2019) 157–60The Abe Administration and the Rise of the Prime Ministerial Executive by Aurelia George MulganAlisa Gaunder- MN 74:1 (2019) 150–57Denying the Comfort Women: The Japanese State’s Assault on Historical Truth ed. Nishino Rumiko, Kim Puja, and Onozawa AkaneJeff Kingston
- MN 74:1 (2019) 146–50Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan by Kent E. CalderFrances McCall Rosenbluth
- MN 74:1 (2019) 140–45Japan in Asia: Post-Cold-War Diplomacy by Tanaka Akihiko, trans. Jean Connell HoffJames D. J. Brown
- MN 74:1 (2019) 136–40Japan’s Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia: Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia by Miyagi Taizō, trans. Hanabusa MidoriTadashi Anno
- MN 74:1 (2019) 131–35Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945–1964 by Jennifer CoatesDiane Wei Lewis
- MN 74:1 (2019) 127–30Others in Japanese Agriculture: Koreans, Evacuees and Migrants 1920–1950 by Yasuoka Ken’ichi, trans. Teresa CastelvetereTessa Morris-Suzuki
- MN 74:1 (2019) 122–27Embracing “Asia” in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912–1933 by Torsten WeberChristopher W. A. Szpilman
- MN 74:1 (2019) 119–22The Merchant’s Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan by Simon PartnerM. William Steele
- MN 74:1 (2019) 115–19To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan’s Meiji Restoration in World History by Mark RavinaAlistair Swale
- MN 74:1 (2019) 109–15The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo by Yijiang ZhongBernhard Scheid
- MN 74:1 (2019) 106–109Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893 by Yasuhiro MakimuraHarald Fuess
- MN 74:1 (2019) 101–106Good Dogs: Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin’s “Nansō Satomi hakkenden” by Glynne WalleyYoshitaka Yamamoto
- MN 74:1 (2019) 97–101Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan by Jakobina K. ArchWilliam M. Tsutsui
- MN 74:1 (2019) 93–97Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan by Yulia FrumerStefan Tanaka
- MN 74:1 (2019) 90–93Parody, Irony and Ideology in the Fiction of Ihara Saikaku by David J. GundryJ. Scott Miller
- MN 74:1 (2019) 85–90Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan ed. Karen M. GerhartYui Suzuki
- MN 74:1 (2019) 59–84The Poetics of Nativism: Motoori Norinaga and the Sacralization of Japanese LiteratureEmi Foulk Bushelle
- MN 74:1 (2019) 33–57War without Blood? The Literary Uses of a Taboo Fluid in Heike MonogatariVyjayanthi R. Selinger
- MN 74:1 (2019) 1–32Unearthing Lost Memories: A Reexamination of the Role of Naniwa in Early JapanJoshua Frydman
- MN 74:1 (2019) 2019Monumenta Nipponica Volume 74, Number 1, 2019
MN 73:2 (2018) 185–86Eightieth Anniversary Message- MN 73:2 (2018) 187–212Why Were There No Severe Famines in Fourteenth-Century Japan? Social Change, Resilience, and Climatic CoolingKeisuke Itō and Paula R. Curtis
- MN 73:2 (2018) 213–44Female Shrine Priests and Doctrinal Instructors in the Early Meiji Moral Edification CampaignMichael Burtscher and Mika Odaira
- MN 73:2 (2018) 245–50Shinto: A History by Helen Hardacre; A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital by Mark Teeuwen and John BreenYijiang Zhong
- MN 73:2 (2018) 250–55Fabricating the “Tenjukoku Shūchō Mandara” and Prince Shōtoku’sAfterlives by Chari PradelHillary Pedersen
- MN 73:2 (2018) 255–58Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan by Sherry D. FowlerKaren M. Gerhart
- MN 73:2 (2018) 258–60Recasting the Past: An Early Modern “Tales of Ise” for Children by Laura MorettiPeter MacMillan
- MN 73:2 (2018) 260–64Daimyo Gardens by Shirahata Yōzaburō, trans. Imoto Chikako, Lynne E. RiggsChristian Tagsold
- MN 73:2 (2018) 265–67Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-CenturyJapan by D. Colin JaundrillMark Ravina
- MN 73:2 (2018) 267–69Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan by Danny OrbachRichard J. Smethurst
- MN 73:2 (2018) 270–74Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874–1945 by Paul D. BarclayRobert Eskildsen
- MN 73:2 (2018) 274–80The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to thePacific War by S. C. M. PaineFrederick R. Dickinson
- MN 73:2 (2018) 280–83Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire ed. David G. Wittner, Philip C. BrownAlexander Bay
- MN 73:2 (2018) 283–92Honored and Dishonored Guests: Westerners in Wartime Japan by W. Puck BrecherF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 73:2 (2018) 292–95It’s Madness: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea by Theodore Jun YooHoi-Eun Kim
- MN 73:2 (2018) 296–301Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan by Francesca Di MarcoAmy Borovoy
- MN 73:2 (2018) 302–304The Stories Clothes Tell: Voices of Working-Class Japan by Tatsuichi Horikiri, ed. and trans. Rieko WagonerMartha Chaiklin
- MN 73:2 (2018) 304–307Picture Bride Stories by Barbara F. KawakamiMariko Iijima
- MN 73:2 (2018) 307–14Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love,and Labor by Ayako KanoUlrike Wöhr
- MN 73:2 (2018) 314–19Ennobling Japan’s Savage Northeast: Tōhoku as Postwar Thought, 1945–2011 by Nathan HopsonAnthony Rausch
- MN 73:2 (2018) 320–24The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia by Hiro SaitoPhilip Seaton
- MN 73:2 (2018) 2018Monumenta Nipponica Volume 73, Number 2, 2018
MN 73:1 (2018) 1–26Measuring Feeling as Theory of Literature: Romanticism and the Performance of Genre in Natsume Sōseki’s Kusamakura and Critical WritingsDaniel Poch- MN 73:1 (2018) 27–85The Aestheticization of Korean Suffering in the Colonial Period: A Translation of Yanagi Sōetsu’s Chōsen no BijutsuPenny Bailey
- MN 73:1 (2018) 63–85Korean ArtSōetsu Yanagi, Translated by Penny Bailey
- MN 73:1 (2018) 87–91Mountain Mandalas: Shugendō in Kyushu by Allan G. GrapardCaleb Carter
- MN 73:1 (2018) 92–95Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan: Poetics and Practice by Brian SteiningerRobert Borgen