Monumenta Nipponica

Monumenta Nipponica
Discipline	Japanese studies
Edited by	Mark R. Mullins
Publication details
Publisher	Sophia University (Japan)
Publication history	1938-present
Frequency	Semiannual
Indexing
ISSN	0027-0741 (print) 1880-1390 (web)
Links
Journal homepage JSTOR

Monumenta Nipponica is a biannual academic journals of Japanese studies. It is affiliated with Sophia University (Tokyo).^[1]

Contents

Each issue contains three to four main research articles, and ten to fifteen reviews of recent books in Japanese studies, dealing with Japanese society, culture, history, religion, literature, art, anthropology, and related topics in Japanese and Asian studies.

Back issues of Monumenta Nipponica are accessible through JSTOR. From volume 60 (2005), all issues, including the most recent ones, are accessible through Project MUSE.^[1]

Editors

The following persons have been editors-in-chief of Monumenta Nipponica:

• Vols. 1–6 (1938–1943)—J. B. Kraus (founder)
• Vols. 7–17 (1951–1962)—Wilhelm Schiffer
• Vol. 18 (1963)—Wilhelm Schiffer, Francis Mathy
• Vols. 19–23 (1964–1968)—Joseph Pittau
• Vols. 24–25 (1969–1970)—Edmund R. Skrzypczak
• Vols. 26–51 (1971–1996)—Michael Cooper
• Vol. 52 (1997)—Michael Cooper, Kate Wildman Nakai
• Vol. 53-65:1 (1998–2010)—Kate Wildman Nakai
• Vol. 65:2- (2010-present)—Mark R. Mullins

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Monumenta Nipponica". Sophia University. http://monumenta.cc.sophia.ac.jp/index.html. Retrieved 2009-02-16. 

Further reading

• "Japanese Bibliography, English-Language Journals". Columbia University. 2003. http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/BIB95/ch03.htm. Retrieved 2009-02-15. 

External links

• Official website