Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 61:4 (2006) 574–576Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan by Mark MetzlerSimon James Bytheway- MN 61:4 (2006) 577–580Divisions of Labor: Globality, Ideology, and War in the Shaping of the Japanese Labor Movement by Lonny E. CarlileTom Gill
- MN 61:4 (2006) 580–582The Religious Traditions of Japan 500–1600 by Richard BowringJames L. Ford
- MN 61:4 (2006) 583–585Classical Japanese: A Grammar by Haruo ShiraneStephen D. Miller
- MN 61:4 (2006) 585–587Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan by Elizabeth OylerRichard A. Gardner
- MN 61:4 (2006) 587–590Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920s by William GardnerAlisa Freedman
MN 61:3 (2006) 407–409Le riz dans le culture de Heian, mythe et réalité by Charlotte von VerschuerRobert Borgen- MN 61:3 (2006) 409–12Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300–1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English ed. Joan R. PiggottWilliam Wayne Farris
- MN 61:3 (2006) 412–16The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582–1590: The Journey of Four Samurai Boys Through Portugal, Spain and Italy by Michael CooperAdriana Boscaro
- MN 61:3 (2006) 416–18The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession: Adopting and Adapting Western Influences by Aya TakahashiSally Ann Hastings
- MN 61:3 (2006) 418–22Isami’s House: Three Centuries of a Japanese Family by Gail Lee BernsteinBrian W. Platt
- MN 61:3 (2006) 422–25Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan by Laura HeinSusan Townsend
- MN 61:3 (2006) 425–28Appraising Genji: Literary Criticism and Cultural Anxiety in the Age of the Last Samurai by Patrick W. CaddeauThomas J. Harper
- MN 61:3 (2006) 428–32Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels by Katsuei Yuasa, trans. Mark DriscollNobuko Miyama Ochner
- MN 61:3 (2006) 432–35Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shūji and Postwar Japan by Carol Fisher SorgenfreiDavid G. Goodman
MN 61:2 (2006) 251–54Ambassadors from the Islands of Immortals: China-Japan Relations in the Han-Tang Period by Zhenping WangCharlotte von Verschuer- MN 61:2 (2006) 254–56Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy by Michael R. AuslinM. William Steele
- MN 61:2 (2006) 257–60Rural Economic Development in Japan: From the Nineteenth Century to the Pacific War by Penelope FrancksKerry Smith
- MN 61:2 (2006) 260–63Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex, and Morality in Modern Japan by William JohnstonValerie L. Durham
- MN 61:2 (2006) 264–68The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda by Barak Kushner; Letters from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese by Samuel Hideo Yamashita; In the Faraway Mountains and Rivers: More Voices From a Lost Generation of Japanese Students trans. Joseph L. Quinn, Midori YamanouchiBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 61:2 (2006) 269–72Takeuchi Yoshimi: Displacing the West by Richard F. Calichman; What is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi ed. and trans. Richard F. CalichmanSebastian Conrad
- MN 61:2 (2006) 272–75Sacred Rites in Moonlight: Ben no Naishi Nikki by S. Yumiko HulveyChristina Laffin
- MN 61:2 (2006) 275–78Mūroji: Rearranging Art and History at a Japanese Buddhist Temple by Sherry FowlerSamuel C. Morse
- MN 61:2 (2006) 278–81Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes by Mark D. WestRobin M. Le Blanc
MN 61:1 (2006) 105–107Enigma of the Emperors: Sacred Subservience in Japanese History by Ben-Ami ShillonyStephen S. Large- MN 61:1 (2006) 107–12Written Texts—Visual Texts: Woodblock-Printed Media in Early Modern Japan ed. Susanne Formanek, Sepp LinhartMarcia Yonemoto
- MN 61:1 (2006) 112–15Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan by David L. HowellBruce L. Batten
- MN 61:1 (2006) 115–17Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750–1890 by Brian PlattDavid R. Ambaras
- MN 61:1 (2006) 117–20Musashino in Tuscany: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860–1912 by Susanna FesslerMartin Collcutt
- MN 61:1 (2006) 120–23Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573–1912 by Sarah ThalNathalie Kouamé
- MN 61:1 (2006) 123–26Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku by Ian ReaderMark MacWilliams
- MN 61:1 (2006) 126–29Language and Society in Japan by Nanette GottliebPatricia Wetzel
MN 60:4 (2005) 525–528Ancient Jomon of Japan by Junko HabuGina L. Barnes- MN 60:4 (2005) 528–531Dismissed as Elegant Fossils: Konoe Nobutada and the Role of Aristocrats in Early Modern Japan by Lee Bruschke-JohnsonLee A. Butler
- MN 60:4 (2005) 531–533Cultural Commerce and Dutch Commercial Culture: The Influence of European Material Culture on Japan, 1700–1850 by Martha ChaiklinBruce L. Batten
- MN 60:4 (2005) 533–535Community and State in the Japanese Farm Village: Farm Tenancy Conciliation, 1924–1938 by Dimitri VanoverbekeSimon Partner
- MN 60:4 (2005) 536–538Figures poétiques japonaises: La genèse de la poésie en chaine by Sumie TeradaAileen Gatten
- MN 60:4 (2005) 538–540Developing Zeami: The Noh Actor’s Attunement in Practice by Shelley Fenno QuinnEric C. Rath
- MN 60:4 (2005) 541–542Discourses of Seduction: History, Evil, Desire, and Modern Japanese Literature by Hosea HirataAngela Yiu
- MN 60:4 (2005) 542–546Letters of the Nun Eshinni: Images of Pure Land Buddhism in Medieval Japan by James C. DobbinsDennis Hirota
- MN 60:4 (2005) 546–549The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Sōtō Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan by Duncan Ryūken WilliamsDavid E. Riggs
MN 60:3 (2005) 409–12Japan’s Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power by Alexis DuddenJames C. Baxter- MN 60:3 (2005) 412–14Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868–1922 by J. Charles SchenckingMichael Lewis
- MN 60:3 (2005) 415–17La modernité à l’horizon: la culture populaire dans le Japon des années vingt ed. Jean-Jacques Tschudin, Claude HamonSusan Napier
- MN 60:3 (2005) 418–20Telling Lives: Women’s Self-Writing in Modern Japan ed. and trans. Ronald P. LoftusG. G. Rowley
- MN 60:3 (2005) 420–22Politics, Memory and Public Opinion: The History Textbook Controversy and Japanese Society by Sven SaalerBob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- MN 60:3 (2005) 422–25Femmes galantes, femmes artistes dans le Japon ancien, XIe-XIIIe siècle by Jacqueline PigeotIvo Smits
- MN 60:3 (2005) 425–34Kabuki Plays On Stage ed. James R. Brandon, Samuel L. LeiterJanet E. Goff