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Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University, Monumenta Nipponica is one of the oldest English-language academic journals in the field of Asian studies. As a peer-reviewed international forum for researchers across the globe, it carries original scholarly contributions on premodern and modern history, literature, art history, religion, and thought; translations of important Japanese literary and historical sources; and authoritative reviews of recent books on Japan.
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Volume 67, Number 1, 2012Editorial Board
Editor
Mark R. Mullins
Managing Editor
Esther Sanders
Associate Editors
Richard Gardner
Nakano Kōichi
Bettina Gramlich-Oka
Sven Saaler
Hayashi Michio
Angela Yiu
Advisory Board
Bruce Batten, J.F. Oberlin University
Kate Wildman Nakai, Editor,1997-2010
Helen Hardacre, Harvard University
Peter Nosco, University of British Columbia
James W. Heisig, Nanzan University
Shimazono Susumu, University of Tokyo
Ikegami Yoshimasa, Komazawa University
M. Antoni J. Üçerler, S.J., University of Oxford
Richard Jaffe, Duke University
Charlotte von Verschuer, École Pratique des Hautes
Études, Paris
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Freie Universität Berlin
Dennis Washburn, Dartmouth College
Gregory P. Levine, University of California, Berkeley