Monumenta Nipponica

Monumenta Nipponica is published by Sophia University and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Japanese History and Culture, Indian and Buddhist Studies and Chinese history and philosophy, together about 64.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Welcome to Monumenta Nipponica, a peer-reviewed international forum for research in Japanese studies. One of the oldest English-language academic journals in the field of Asian studies, Monumenta Nipponica carries original scholarly contributions on premodern and modern Japanese history, literature, art history, religion, thought, and society; translations of important Japanese literary and historical sources; and authoritative reviews of recent books on Japan. Print subscriptions to the journal can be ordered directly from the Monumenta Nipponica office. Since volume 60 (2005), the journal has been available online through Project MUSE. The complete archive of back issues is also accessible via JSTOR. MUSE JSTOR MN is indexed by Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Bibliography of Asian Studies, CNKI Scholar, ERIH PLUS, Historical Abstracts, Index to the Study of Religions Online, MLA International Bibliography, and Scopus. Current Advisory Board Lucia Dolce, SOAS University of London Torquil Duthie, University of California, Los Angeles C. Andrew Gerstle, SOAS University of London, Emeritus Helen Hardacre, Harvard University Annick Horiuchi, Université Paris Cité Seiji Lippit, University of California, Los Angeles Melissa McCormick, Harvard University Miyazaki Fumiko, Keisen University, Emerita Joshua S. Mostow, University of British Columbia Mark R. Mullins, University of Auckland Noriko Murai, Sophia University Nagao Naoshige, Sophia University Kate Wildman Nakai, Sophia University, Emerita Rajyashree Pandey, Goldsmiths, University of London Sven Saaler, Sophia University Franziska Seraphim, Boston College Haruo Shirane, Columbia University Mark Teeuwen, University of Oslo Hitomi M. Tonomura, University of Michigan Dennis Washburn, Dartmouth College Yoshitaka Yamamoto, Yale University History Monumenta Nipponica was founded at Sophia University in 1938 by Johannes B. Kraus (1892–1946), a professor of economics who later served as the first editor-in-chief. The journal has been continuously supported and published by the university ever since. However, owing to the challenges posed by the wartime period and the immediate postwar years, the publication of Monumenta Nipponica was suspended between 1944 and 1950. The journal resumed in 1951 with Volume 7 and has since maintained its position as a leading peer-reviewed journal in the fields of Japanese and East Asian Studies. From the beginning, Monumenta Nipponica has maintained its purpose to create and su

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Research area (LetPub): ASIAN STUDIES

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

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h-index

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Articles per year

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Publisher

Sophia University

ISSN

0027-0741

Electronic ISSN

1880-1390

Latest issue on the website

Volume 81, Issue 1 (2026)

Official links

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