Monumenta Nipponica

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Monumenta Nipponica is one of the oldest and most influential English-language academic journals in Japanese studies. Affiliated with Sophia University in Tokyo, it is published semiannually, in May and November, and is sent out to individual and institutional subscribers in some sixty countries.^[1]

Contents 1 Contents 2 Editors 3 References 4 Notes 5 External links

[edit] 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. Together with the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Monumenta Nipponica is one of the largest and most respected English-language journals of East Asian scholarship. The Monumenta Nipponica Style Sheet, available for downloading from the journal's website, is widely used as a guide for the presentation of Japan-related subject matter in English.

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

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• 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– (1998–present)—Kate Wildman Nakai

[edit] References

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

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[edit] External links

• Monumenta Nipponica