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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 80, Number 2, 2025Table of Contents
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View Medicine, Fiction, and Metaphor: The Medical Body, Health, and Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Japanese Graphic Narratives
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Medicine, Fiction, and Metaphor: The Medical Body, Health, and Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Japanese Graphic Narratives
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View Inscribed Objects and the Development of Literature in Early Japan by Joshua Frydman (review)
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View Kings in All but Name: The Lost History of Ōuchi Rule in Japan, 1350–1569 by Thomas D. Conlan (review)
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Kings in All but Name: The Lost History of Ōuchi Rule in Japan, 1350–1569 by Thomas D. Conlan (review)
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View The Dutch Language in Japan (1600–1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan by Christopher Joby (review)
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The Dutch Language in Japan (1600–1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan by Christopher Joby (review)
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View The Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy: Nishida Kitaro and the Meiji Period by Richard Stone (review)
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Comfort Women of the Japanese Empire: Colonial Rule and the Battle over Memory by Park Yuha (review)
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View Japan in Upheaval: The Origins, Dynamics and Political Outcome of the 1960 Anti-US Treaty Protests by Dagfinn Gatu (review)
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Japan in Upheaval: The Origins, Dynamics and Political Outcome of the 1960 Anti-US Treaty Protests by Dagfinn Gatu (review)
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View Discovery & Wonder—The Harry F. Bruning Collection at Brigham Young University by Jack C. Stoneman and Aaron H. Skabelund (review)
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Discovery & Wonder—The Harry F. Bruning Collection at Brigham Young University by Jack C. Stoneman and Aaron H. Skabelund (review)
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View Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans by James Welker (review)
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Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans by James Welker (review)
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View Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan by Paul Hansen (review)
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View Fuzzy Traumas: Animals and Errors in Contemporary Japanese Literature by Tyran Grillo (review)
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View Music Generations in the Digital Age: Social Practices of Listening and Idols in Japan by Rafal Zaborowski (review)
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Music Generations in the Digital Age: Social Practices of Listening and Idols in Japan by Rafal Zaborowski (review)
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View Lay Zen in Contemporary Japan: Tradition, Interpretation, and Invention by Erez Joskovich (review)
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Lay Zen in Contemporary Japan: Tradition, Interpretation, and Invention by Erez Joskovich (review)
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View The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture ed. by Mina Qiao (review)
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| ISSN | 1880-1390 |
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| Print ISSN | 0027-0741 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2026-03-11 |
| Open Access | No |



