Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 62:2 (2007) 248–50Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan by Morgan PitelkaRichard L. Wilson- MN 62:2 (2007) 250–52Understanding Humor in Japan ed. Jessica Milner DavisRichard A. Gardner
- MN 62:2 (2007) 252–55Millennial Monsters by Anne AllisonJames Farrer
- MN 62:2 (2007) 255–60Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan by Miyako Inoue; A Cultural History of Women’s Language by Endō OrieNanette Gottlieb
MN 62:1 (2007) 107–109Japan’s Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility, and Warfare in a Transformative Age by William Wayne FarrisBruce L. Batten- MN 62:1 (2007) 110–12The Dog Shogun: The Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi by Beatrice M. Bodart-BaileyAnne Walthall
- MN 62:1 (2007) 113–15A Reader in Edo Period Travel by Herbert PlutschowLaura Nenzi
- MN 62:1 (2007) 115–19JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life ed. Gregory M. Pflugfelder, Brett L. WalkerHans Martin Krämer
- MN 62:1 (2007) 119–21Gendering Modern Japanese History ed. Barbara Moloney, Kathleen UnoAnne E. Imamura
- MN 62:1 (2007) 121–24Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyBarak Kushner
- MN 62:1 (2007) 124–27Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan by D. Max MoermanIyanaga Nobumi
- MN 62:1 (2007) 127–31Woman Critiqued: Translated Essays on Japanese Women’s Writing ed. Rebecca CopelandJudit Árokay
- MN 62:1 (2007) 131–34Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature: A Critical Approach ed. Rachael Hutchinson, Mark WilliamsJoseph S. O'Leary
MN 61:4 (2006) 567–569Women in Medieval Japan: Motherhood, Household Management and Sexuality by Wakita HarukoJanet R. Goodwin- MN 61:4 (2006) 569–571Die “böse Alte” in der japanischen Populärkultur der Edo-Zeit: Die Feindvalenz und ihr soziales Umfeld by Susanne FormanekMartina Schönbein
- MN 61:4 (2006) 572–574Practical Pursuits: Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Ellen Gardner NakamuraAnn Bowman Jannetta
- 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