Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
- MN 60:3 (2005) 434–36The Japanese Self in Cultural Logic by Takie Sugiyama LebraHarumi Befu
MN 60:2 (2005) 263–64The Tōkaidō Road: Traveling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan by Jilly TraganouLawrence E. Marceau- MN 60:2 (2005) 265–67Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543–1900 by Gary P. LeuppSusan L. Burns
- MN 60:2 (2005) 267–69Japan’s Early Experience of Contract Management in the Treaty Ports by Yuki Allyson HonjoJunko Ando
- MN 60:2 (2005) 269–72Hiratsuka Raichō and Early Japanese Feminism by Hiroko TomidaAndrea Germer
- MN 60:2 (2005) 272–75Historische Frauenforschung in Japan: Die Rekonstruktion der Vergangenheit in Takamure Itsues “Geschichte der Frau” (Josei no rekishi) by Andrea GermerUlrike Wöhr
- MN 60:2 (2005) 275–78At the House of Gathered Leaves: Short Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives from Japanese Court Literature by Joshua S. MostowLynne K. Miyake
- MN 60:2 (2005) 278–81Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature by Stephen DoddDennis Washburn
- MN 60:2 (2005) 281–83The Body in Postwar Japanese Fiction by Douglas N. SlaymakerJoseph S. O'Leary
- MN 60:2 (2005) 283–88Keigo in Modern Japan: Polite Language from Meiji to the Present by Patricia J. Wetzel; Rhetoric in Modern Japan: Western Influences on the Development of Narrative and Oratorical Style by Massimiliano TomasiNanette Gottlieb
- MN 60:2 (2005) 288–90Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World by Theodore BestorAnne Allison
- MN 60:2 (2005) 290–93Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village: The Making and Becoming of Person and Place by D. P. MartinezBirgit Staemmler
- MN 60:2 (2005) 293–95The Koto: A Traditional Instrument in Contemporary Japan by Henry JohnsonDavid Waterhouse
MN 60:1 (2005) 111–12House and Home in Modern Japan: Reforming Everyday Life, 1880–1930 by Jordan SandAnn Waswo- MN 60:1 (2005) 112–15Frauenerziehung und Frauenbild im Umbruch: Ideale von Mädchenerziehung, Frauenrolle und weiblichen Lebensentwürfen in der frühen Jogaku zasshi (1885–1889) by Nadja Kischka-WellhäusserMargaret Mehl
- MN 60:1 (2005) 115–18Women and the Labour Market in Japan’s Industrialising Economy: The Textile Industry before the Pacific War by Janet HunterBarbara Molony
- MN 60:1 (2005) 118–21Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan by Sabine FrühstückSally Ann Hastings
- MN 60:1 (2005) 121–23Toshié: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan by Simon PartnerMariko Asano Tamanoi
- MN 60:1 (2005) 123–28Practicing the Afterlife: Perspectives from Japan ed. Susanne Formanek, William LaFleur; Bereavement and Consolation: Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan by Harold BolithoFabio Rambelli
- MN 60:1 (2005) 128–31Practical Pursuits: Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Janine Tasca SawadaBarbara Ambros
- MN 60:1 (2005) 131–34Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity by Tomiko YodaJoshua S. Mostow
- MN 60:1 (2005) 134–37The Ethos of Noh: Actors and Their Art by Eric C. RathGerald Groemer
- MN 60:1 (2005) 137–40Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity by Maeda Ai, ed. James FujiiIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 60:1 (2005) 140–43The Artist as Professional in Japan ed. Melinda TakeuchiQuitman E. Phillips
- MN 60:1 (2005) 143–45Critical Perspectives on Classicism in Japanese Painting, 1600–1700 ed. Elizabeth LillehojFrank Chance
MN 59:4 (2004) 535–538The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto by Suzanne GayAndrew Edmund Goble- MN 59:4 (2004) 538–541Pre-Industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective by Conrad TotmanBruce L. Batten
- MN 59:4 (2004) 541–543Frontier Contact between Chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan by James B. LewisDavid L. Howell
- MN 59:4 (2004) 544–546Japans Karneval der Krise: Ējanaika und die Meiji-Renovation by Reinhard ZöllnerKlaus Antoni
- MN 59:4 (2004) 547–549Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600–2000 by Harald FuessGail Lee Bernstein
- MN 59:4 (2004) 549–552A Vision of Empire: Kita Ikki and the Making of Modern Japan by Brij TankhaBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 59:4 (2004) 552–555Novel Japan: Spaces of Nationhood in Early Meiji Narrative, 1870–88 by John Pierre MertzRichard Torrance