Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 65:1 (2010) 202–205Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen; Murmured Conversations: A Treatise on Poetry and Buddhism by the Poet-Monk Shinkei trans. Esperanza Ramirez-ChristensenRein Raud- MN 65:1 (2010) 206–208Living Buddhist Statues in Early Medieval and Modern Japan by Sarah J. HortonFabio Rambelli
- MN 65:1 (2010) 208–12The Way of Shikishima: Waka Theory and Practice in Early Modern Japan by Roger K. ThomasJudit Árokay
- MN 65:1 (2010) 213–16Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Edo Japan by Laura NenziAndrew Bernstein
- MN 65:1 (2010) 217–21Traditionen idealisierter Weiblichkeit: Die “Kostbare Sammlung von Vorbildern weiblicher Weisheit” (Joyō chie kagami takaraori) als Paradebeispiel edo-zeitlicher Frauenbildung by Stephan KöhnBettina Gramlich-Oka
- MN 65:1 (2010) 221–24Civilization and Enlightenment: The Early Thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi by Albert M. CraigKōichirō Matsuda
- MN 65:1 (2010) 225–27The Meiji Restoration: Monarchism, Mass Communication and Conservative Revolution by Alistair D. SwaleJames L. Huffman
- MN 65:1 (2010) 227–31The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation by Alice Y. TsengDon Choi
- MN 65:1 (2010) 231–34Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings by Natsume Sōseki, ed. Michael K. Bourdaghs, Atsuko Ueda, Joseph A. Murphy; Reflections in a Glass Door: Memory and Melancholy in the Personal Writings of Natsume Sōseki by Marvin MarcusAngela Yiu
- MN 65:1 (2010) 235–37Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West by Shoji Yamada, trans. Earl HartmanJoseph S. O'Leary
- MN 65:1 (2010) 237–40Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen’s Critique and Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics by Christopher IvesMicah L. Auerback
- MN 65:1 (2010) 241–44Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan by Mariko Asano TamanoiKerry Smith
MN 64:2 (2009) 373–78The Four Great Temples: Buddhist Archaeology, Architecture, and Icons of Seventh-Century Japan by Donald F. McCallum; Nagaoka: Japan’s Forgotten Capital by Ellen Van GoethemWalter Edwards- MN 64:2 (2009) 378–79Across the Perilous Sea: Japanese Trade with China and Korea from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries by Charlotte von Verschuer, trans. Kristen Lee HunterBruce L. Batten
- MN 64:2 (2009) 380–81A Handbook to Classical Japanese by John Timothy WixtedAldo Tollini
- MN 64:2 (2009) 381–84Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan by R. Keller KimbroughMargaret H. Childs
- MN 64:2 (2009) 384–86Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative, Ritual, and Royal Authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike by David T. BialockMichael G. Watson
- MN 64:2 (2009) 387–90Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales by Michelle Osterfeld LiRajyashree Pandey
- MN 64:2 (2009) 390–93Zeami: Performance Notes trans. Tom HareEric C. Rath
- MN 64:2 (2009) 393–97Visioning Eternity: Aesthetics, Politics, and History in the Early Modern Noh Theater by Thomas D. LooserNoel John Pinnington
- MN 64:2 (2009) 397–400Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos VaporisAnna Beerens
- MN 64:2 (2009) 400–404Moderne japanische Literatur in deutscher Übersetzung: Eine Bibliographie der Jahre 1868–2008 ed. Jürgen Stalph, Christoph Petermann, Matthias Wittig; Japanische Literatur im Spiegel deutscher Rezensionen ed. Junko Ando, Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Matthias HoopHilaria Gössmann
- MN 64:2 (2009) 405–408Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yōkai by Michael Dylan FosterSatoko Shimazaki
- MN 64:2 (2009) 408–11Crossing Empire’s Edge: Foreign Ministry Police and Japanese Expansionism in Northeast Asia by Erik EsselstromSelcuk Esenbel
- MN 64:2 (2009) 412–14When Our Eyes No Longer See: Realism, Science, and Ecology in Japanese Literary Modernism by Gregory GolleyMark Williams
- MN 64:2 (2009) 415–18Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature by Tomoko AoyamaIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 64:2 (2009) 418–24Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture by Sari Kawana; Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868–1937 by Mark SilverEvelyn Schulz
- MN 64:2 (2009) 424–28Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan ed. and trans. Richard F. CalichmanChristian Uhl
- MN 64:2 (2009) 428–31Uchida Hyakken: A Critique of Modernity and Militarism in Prewar Japan by Rachel DiNittoAlisa Freedman
- MN 64:2 (2009) 431–33Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan by Elyssa FaisonSally Ann Hastings
- MN 64:2 (2009) 434–35Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation: Vision, Embodiment, Identity by Sharalyn OrbaughEve Zimmerman
- MN 64:2 (2009) 436–38Ausgekochtes Wunderland: Japanische Literatur lesen by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitKristina Iwata-Weickgenannt
- MN 64:2 (2009) 439–41Writing Okinawa: Narrative Acts of Identity and Resistance by Davinder L. BhowmikMichael Molasky
- MN 64:2 (2009) 442–44War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan: The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and Ienaga Saburo’s Court Challenges by Yoshiko NozakiKristine Dennehy
- MN 64:2 (2009) 445–49Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime ed. Mark W. MacWilliamsLynne K. Miyake
MN 64:1 (2009) 167–70Traces in the Way: Michi and the Writings of Komparu Zenchiku by Noel J. PinningtonSusan Blakeley Klein- MN 64:1 (2009) 170–73Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600–2005 by Patricia J. GrahamSamuel C. Morse
- MN 64:1 (2009) 174–77Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry by Fukagawa Hidetoshi, Tony RothmanNoel John Pinnington
- MN 64:1 (2009) 177–80The Patriarch of Dutch Learning Shizuki Tadao (1760–1806). Volume 9 of Journal of the Japan-Netherlands Institute ed. W. J. BootAnn Bowman Jannetta
- MN 64:1 (2009) 180–83When Tengu Talk: Hirata Atsutane’s Ethnography of the Other World by Wilburn HansenAnne Walthall
- MN 64:1 (2009) 183–85The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the ‘Opening’ of Japan by Ann JannettaSusan L. Burns
- MN 64:1 (2009) 185–88The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigō Takamori by Mark RavinaConstantine Nomikos Vaporis
- MN 64:1 (2009) 189–91Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment: The Production of “Literature” in Meiji Japan by Atsuko UedaIndra Levy
- MN 64:1 (2009) 192–95An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel by Ken K. ItoMichael K. Bourdaghs
- MN 64:1 (2009) 195–98The Bluestockings of Japan: New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seitō, 1911–16 by Jan BardsleyReiko Abe Auestad
- MN 64:1 (2009) 198–201Hermann Roesler: Dokumente zu seinem Leben und Werk ed. Anna Bartels-IshikawaSven Saaler
- MN 64:1 (2009) 201–204A Life Adrift: Soeda Azembō, Popular Song, and Modern Mass Culture in Japan by Michael LewisGerald Groemer
- MN 64:1 (2009) 204–207Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburō, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan by Nancy K. StalkerBirgit Staemmler