Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 72:2 (2017) 287–93Dōgen and Sōtō Zen ed. Steven HeineTaigen Dan Leighton- MN 72:2 (2017) 293–99Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan by Anna AndreevaMark Teeuwen
- MN 72:2 (2017) 299–305Mediated by Gifts: Politics and Society in Japan, 1350–1850 ed. Martha ChaiklinCharlotte von Verschuer
- MN 72:2 (2017) 305–14The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation by JaHyun Kim Haboush, ed. William J. Haboush, Jisoo M. KimJames B. Lewis
- MN 72:2 (2017) 314–17Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700 ed. Tonio Andrade, Xing HangNaoko Iioka
- MN 72:2 (2017) 317–21In Search of the Way: Thought and Religion in Early-Modern Japan, 1582–1860 by Richard BowringMark T. McNally
- MN 72:2 (2017) 322–25Defensive Positions: The Politics of Maritime Security in Tokugawa Japan by Noell WilsonLuke S. Roberts
- MN 72:2 (2017) 325–31Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913–1974 by Stefan Huebner; Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Late Nineteenth Century to the End of World War II: Going to the Philippines Is Like Coming Home? by Sven Matthiessen; Asianisms: Regionalist Interactions and Asian Integration ed. Marc Frey, Nicola SpakowskiJeff Kingston
- MN 72:2 (2017) 331–34Significant Soil: Settler Colonialism and Japan’s Urban Empire in Manchuria by Emer O’DwyerRana Mitter
- MN 72:2 (2017) 334–37Surviving in Violent Conflicts: Chinese Interpreters in the Second Sino-Japanese War 1931–1945 by Ting GuoParks M. Coble
- MN 72:2 (2017) 337–44Beyond Nation: Time, Writing, and Community in the Work of Abe Kōbō by Richard F. CalichmanSeth Jacobowitz
- MN 72:2 (2017) 344–50Working Skin: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan by Joseph D. HankinsDaniel Botsman
- MN 72:2 (2017) 350–54Memorializing Pearl Harbor: Unfinished Histories and the Work of Remembrance by Geoffrey M. White; Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes by Lisa YoneyamaAkiko Hashimoto
- MN 72:2 (2017) 354–56Post-war Japan as a Sea Power: Imperial Legacy, Wartime Experience and the Making of a Navy by Alessio PatalanoJames R. Holmes
- MN 72:2 (2017) 356–61Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law by J. Mark RamseyerColin P.A. Jones
- MN 72:2 (2017) 361–68Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima by Aya Hirata KimuraRyo Morimoto
- MN 72:2 (2017) 2017Monumenta Nipponica Volume 72, Number 2, 2017
MN 72:1 (2017) 1–30Shifting Perspectives on the Shogunate’s Last Years: Gountei Sadahide’s Bird’s-Eye View Landscape PrintsFumiko Sugimoto and Michael Burtscher- MN 72:1 (2017) 31–70A Parody in the Ruins: A Translation of Irisawa Yasuo’s Waga Izumo, Waga Chinkon (Part 1)Scott Mehl
- MN 72:1 (2017) 51–70My Izumo, My Requiem (Part 1)Irisawa Yasuo, Translated by Scott Mehl
- MN 72:1 (2017) 71–73Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan by Charlotte von Verschuer, trans. and ed. Wendy CobcroftPhilip C. Brown
- MN 72:1 (2017) 74–76Reading “The Tale of Genji”: Sources from the First Millennium ed. Thomas Harper, Haruo ShiraneLawrence E. Marceau
- MN 72:1 (2017) 76–83The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560–1640 by Reinier H. HesselinkLane R. Earns
- MN 72:1 (2017) 84–87Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability by Morgan PitelkaTimon Screech
- MN 72:1 (2017) 87–91The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan by Marcia YonemotoAnne Walthall
- MN 72:1 (2017) 92–95The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia by Mamoru Akamine, trans. Lina Terrell, ed. Robert HueyGregory Smits
- MN 72:1 (2017) 95–99Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600–1900: The Beggar’s Gift by Gerald GroemerLaura Nenzi
- MN 72:1 (2017) 100–104Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost by Satoko Shimazaki; Onnagata: A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater by Maki IsakaC. Andrew Gerstle
- MN 72:1 (2017) 105–109Values, Identity and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan ed. Peter Nosco, James E. Ketelaar, Yasunori KojimaAnnick Horiuchi
- MN 72:1 (2017) 110–13Network of Knowledge: Western Science and the Tokugawa Information Revolution by Terrence JacksonNiels van Steenpaal
- MN 72:1 (2017) 114–18Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan by Mark Thomas McNallyKiri Paramore
- MN 72:1 (2017) 119–23Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps ed. Kären Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko, Cary KaracasTodd Stradford
- MN 72:1 (2017) 123–25Japanese Prostitutes in the North American West, 1887–1920 by Kazuhiro OharazekiBill Mihalopoulos
- MN 72:1 (2017) 126–28The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojirō by Stephen DoddEve Zimmerman
- MN 72:1 (2017) 128–33The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature: Materiality in the Visual Register as Narrated by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, Abe Kōbō, Horie Toshiyuki, and Kanai Mieko by Atsuko SakakiMark Silver
- MN 72:1 (2017) 134–38Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice by Barak KushnerTorsten Weber
- MN 72:1 (2017) 138–41Drahtseilakte: Der junge Kenzaburō Ōe by Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Christoph HeldAsa-Bettina Wuthenow
- MN 72:1 (2017) 142–45The China Problem in Postwar Japan: Japanese National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations by Robert HoppensKarl Gustafsson
- MN 72:1 (2017) 146–52The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan by Andrea Gevurtz AraiEdward Vickers
- MN 72:1 (2017) 2017Monumenta Nipponica Volume 72, Number 1, 2017
MN 71:2 (2016) 263–93Mothers of the Buddhas: The Sutra on Transforming Women into Buddhas (Bussetsu Tennyo Jōbutsu Kyō) Heather Blair- MN 71:2 (2016) 295–369A Translation of Sōgi’s Oi no Susami (Part 2): A Solace in Old AgeSteven D. Carter
- MN 71:2 (2016) 371–77Constructing the Dharma King: The Hōryūji Shaka Triad and the Birth of the Prince Shōtoku Cult by Akiko WalleyChari Pradel
- MN 71:2 (2016) 377–81Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons by Wiebke DeneckeGunilla Lindberg-Wada
- MN 71:2 (2016) 381–85The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan by Asuka SangoMikael Bauer
- MN 71:2 (2016) 385–90Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan by Heather BlairHalle O'Neal
- MN 71:2 (2016) 390–93Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors by Doris G. BargenTerry Kawashima
- MN 71:2 (2016) 394–99Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan’s Premodern Capital by Matthew StavrosEllen Van Goethem