Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 58:4 (2003) 556–558Dodonaeus in Japan: Translation and the Scientific Mind in the Tokugawa Period by W. F. Vande Walle, Kazuhiko KasayaMichael R. Auslin- MN 58:4 (2003) 558–561Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan: A Study of the Southern Kantō Region, Using Late Edo and Early Meiji Gazetteers by Helen HardacreNathalie Kouamé
- MN 58:4 (2003) 561–563Zen War Stories by Brian Daizen VictoriaRobert Kisala
- MN 58:4 (2003) 563–566The History of Japanese Photography by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Dana Friis-Hansen, Kaneko Ryūichi, Takeba Joe, Iizawa Kōtarō, Kinoshita NaoyukiJulia Adeney Thomas
- MN 58:4 (2003) 566–569An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context by Umesao Tadao, Beth Cary, Harumi BefuBrett L. Walker
MN 58:3 (2003) 407–409To the Ends of Japan: Premodern Frontiers, Boundaries, and Interactions by Bruce L. BattenAnne Walthall- MN 58:3 (2003) 410–11Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467–1680: Resilience and Renewal by Lee ButlerG. Cameron Hurst
- MN 58:3 (2003) 412–14Tanegashima: The Arrival of Europe in Japan by Olaf G. LidinThomas Conlan
- MN 58:3 (2003) 414–16A Modern History of Japan from Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon; Japanese Political History since the Meiji Renovation: 1868–2000 by Richard SimsJames L. Huffman
- MN 58:3 (2003) 417–19Justice in Japan: The Notorious Teijin Scandal by Richard H. MitchellJames C. Baxter
- MN 58:3 (2003) 419–22We the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution by Dale M. HellegersJ. Victor Koschmann
- MN 58:3 (2003) 422–24Allegories of Desire: Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan by Susan Blakeley KleinAileen Gatten
- MN 58:3 (2003) 424–27Kawabata, le clair-obscur by Cécile SakaiGiorgio Amitrano
- MN 58:3 (2003) 427–30The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan by Shiro Okamoto, Samuel L. LeiterJanet E. Goff
- MN 58:3 (2003) 430–32Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets: Talent and Training in Japanese Painting by Brenda G. Jordan, Victoria WestonQuitman E. Phillips
- MN 58:3 (2003) 433–35Master Potter of Meiji Japan: Makuzu Kōzan (1842–1916) and His Workshop by Clare PollardRichard L. Wilson
- MN 58:3 (2003) 435–37A Japanese View of Nature: The World of Living Things by Kinji Imanishi, Pamela J. Asquith, Heita Kawakatsu, Shusuke Yagi, Hiroyuki TakasakiBrett L. Walker
MN 58:2 (2003) 259–62Pèlerinage et société dans le Japon des Tokugawa: Le pèlerinage de Shikoku entre 1598 et 1868 by Nathalie KouaméFabio Rambelli- MN 58:2 (2003) 262–64The Manchurian Crisis and Japanese Society, 1931–33 by Sandra WilsonMichael Lewis
- MN 58:2 (2003) 264–66Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 58:2 (2003) 267–68Repenser l’ordre, repenser l’héritage: Paysage intellectuel du Japon (xviie-xixe siècles) by Frédéric Girard, Annick Horiuchi, Mieko MacéKarine Marandjian
- MN 58:2 (2003) 269–70Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School by James W. HeisigTadashi Karube
- MN 58:2 (2003) 270–73Figures of Desire: Wordplay, Spirit Possession, Fantasy, Madness, and Mourning in Japanese Noh Plays by Etsuko TerasakiRichard A. Gardner
- MN 58:2 (2003) 273–76Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology 1600–1900 by Haruo ShiraneSonja Arntzen
- MN 58:2 (2003) 276–78Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll by Lawrence RogersAngela Yiu
- MN 58:2 (2003) 278–80Letting Go: The Story of Zen Master Tōsui by Peter Haskel; Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition: Hisamatsu’s Talks on Linji by Christopher Ives, Tokiwa GishinSteven Heine
- MN 58:2 (2003) 281–83Treatise on Epistolary Style: João Rodriguez on the Noble Art of Writing Japanese Letters by Jeroen Pieter LamersMichael Cooper
- MN 58:2 (2003) 284–86Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art by Wybe KuitertWalter Edwards
- MN 58:2 (2003) 286–89Identity and Resistance in Okinawa by Matthew AllenHidekazu Sensui
- MN 58:2 (2003) 289–91Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval by Merry Isaacs WhiteAmy Borovoy
MN 58:1 (2003) 117–19João Rodrigues’s Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan by Michael CooperM. Antoni J. Ucerler- MN 58:1 (2003) 119–22Le Voyage au Japon: Anthologie de Textes Français 1858–1908 by Patrick BeillevaireBeatrice M. Bodart Bailey
- MN 58:1 (2003) 122–25The Human Tradition in Modern Japan by Anne Walthall; Memories of Wind and Waves: A Self-Portrait of Lakeside Japan by Junichi Saga, Juliet Winters CarpenterHarald Fuess
- MN 58:1 (2003) 125–28The Political Thought of Mori Arinori: A Study in Meiji Conservatism by Alistair SwaleErnst Lokowandt
- MN 58:1 (2003) 128–30Colonial Modernity in Korea by Gi-Wook Shin, Michael RobinsonPeter Duus
- MN 58:1 (2003) 131–33A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization by Kerry SmithEdward E. Pratt
- MN 58:1 (2003) 133–36Housing in Postwar Japan: A Social History by Ann WaswoGail Lee Bernstein
- MN 58:1 (2003) 136–38Individual Dignity in Modern Japanese Thought: The Evolution of the Concept of “Jinkaku” in Moral and Educational Discourse by Kyoko InoueRikki Kersten
- MN 58:1 (2003) 139–41Abortion before Birth Control: The Politics of Reproduction in Postwar Japan by Tiana NorgrenUlrike Wöhr
- MN 58:1 (2003) 142–43Embracing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Rebirth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry by Janine BeichmanClaire Dodane
- MN 58:1 (2003) 143–46Ryōgen and Mount Hiei: Japanese Tendai in the Tenth Century by Paul GronerHank Glassman
- MN 58:1 (2003) 146–48Martin Heidegger im Denken Watsuji Tetsurōs by Hans Peter LiederbachJoseph S. O'Leary
MN 57:4 (2002) 529–531L’Office des études supérieures au Japon du VIIe au XIIe siècle et les dissertations des fin d’études by Atsuko CeugnietRobert Borgen- MN 57:4 (2002) 531–534L’Enseignement de la lecture au Japon: Politique et éducation by Christian GalanDimitri Vanoverbeke
- MN 57:4 (2002) 534–536Song in an Age of Discord: The Journal of Sōchō and Poetic Life in Late Medieval Japan by H. Mack Horton; The Journal of Sōchō by H. Mack HortonRoselee Bundy
- MN 57:4 (2002) 536–539The Chrysanthemum and the Fish: Japanese Humor Since the Age of the Shoguns by Howard HibbettRichard A. Gardner
- MN 57:4 (2002) 539–542A History of Japanese Religion by Kazuo Kasahara, Paul McCarthy, Gaynor SekimoriBarbara Ambros
- MN 57:4 (2002) 542–545The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism: A Study and Translation of Gyōnen’s Jōdo Hōmon Genrushō by Mark L. BlumJames L. Ford