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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) 63–85Korean ArtSōetsu Yanagi, Translated by Penny Bailey
- 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) 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
- MN 73:1 (2018) 95–99Itineraries of Power: Texts and Traversals in Heian and Medieval Japan by Terry KawashimaJoseph T. Sorensen
- MN 73:1 (2018) 100–104Teika: The Life and Works of a Medieval Japanese Poet by Paul S. AtkinsRobert N. Huey
- MN 73:1 (2018) 104–107Ōsaki Hachiman: Architecture, Materiality, and Samurai Power by Anton SchweizerMorgan Pitelka
- MN 73:1 (2018) 107–10A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography by Luke GartlanKerry Ross
- MN 73:1 (2018) 111–14Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan by Kate McDonaldAnnika A. Culver
- MN 73:1 (2018) 115–19Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyM. G. Sheftall
- MN 73:1 (2018) 119–26The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan by Gavin WalkerViren Murthy
- MN 73:1 (2018) 126–31Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryūsei to Miyazaki Hayao by Michael Lucken, trans. Francesca SimkinMiriam Wattles
- MN 73:1 (2018) 131–33War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945–1956: Justice in Time of Turmoil ed. Kerstin von LingenSarah Kovner
- MN 73:1 (2018) 134–40The Comfort Women: Historical, Political, Legal, and Moral Perspectives by Kumagai Naoko, trans. David NobleBob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- MN 73:1 (2018) 140–43The Life We Longed For: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan by Laura NeitzelAnn Waswo
- MN 73:1 (2018) 143–48Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement by Simon AvenellTimothy S. George
- MN 73:1 (2018) 148–53Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan: Making Sacred Forests by Aike P. RotsThierry Guthmann
- MN 73:1 (2018) 153–60Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan: From Pork to Foreign Policy by Amy CatalinacPaul Midford
- MN 73:1 (2018) 160–64Popular Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice: From Jurors to Lay Judges by Andrew WatsonDimitri Vanoverbeke
- MN 73:1 (2018) 164–67Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism: Europeans in Japan by Miloš DebnárRotem Kowner
- MN 73:1 (2018) 167–70Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan by Kumiko NemotoJan Bardsley
- MN 73:1 (2018) 170–77Fukushima and the Arts: Negotiating Nuclear Disaster ed. Barbara Geilhorn, Kristina Iwata-WeickgenanntRoman Rosenbaum
- MN 73:1 (2018) 179–83In Memoriam: Michael Cooper (1930–2018)Michael Cooper, editor of Monumenta Nipponica from 1972 to 1997, died peacefully in Honolulu, Hawaii, on 31 March 2018 after a short illness. He was just a month short of his eighty-eighth birthday. In Japan, as he would undoubtedly point out were he writing this piece, this is a felicitous marker of longevity. Michael was born in London on 25 April 1930. He paid great attention to people’s birthdays and to remembering them with a card. Perhaps as a gentle …
- MN 73:1 (2018) 2018Monumenta Nipponica Volume 73, Number 1, 2018
MN 72:2 (2017) 153–87Cultural Knowledge and Professional Training in the Poetic Treatises of Late Heian JapanAriel Stilerman- MN 72:2 (2017) 189–222Illustrated Debate over Wine and Rice (Shuhanron Emaki) : Dining and Socializing in Late Muromachi JapanCharlotte von Verschuer
- MN 72:2 (2017) 223–64A Parody in the Ruins: A Translation of Irisawa Yasuo’s Waga Izumo, Waga Chinkon (Part 2)Scott Mehl, Translated by Scott Mehl, Original by Irisawa Yasuo
- MN 72:2 (2017) 225–64My Izumo, My Requiem (Part 2)Irisawa Yasuo, Translated by Scott Mehl
- MN 72:2 (2017) 265–69Kindheit in der japanischen Geschichte: Vorstellungen und Erfahrungen/Childhood in Japanese History: Concepts and Experiences ed. Michael Kinski, Harald Salomon, Eike GroßmannSabine Frühstück
- MN 72:2 (2017) 270–75Lovable Losers: The Heike in Action and Memory ed. Mikael S. Adolphson, Anne CommonsRobert Borgen
- MN 72:2 (2017) 275–77Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan by Jacqueline I. StoneGary L. Ebersole
- MN 72:2 (2017) 278–81Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan by Edward R. DrottRajyashree Pandey
- MN 72:2 (2017) 281–86Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair: Body, Woman, and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives by Rajyashree PandeyVyjayanthi R. Selinger