Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
- MN 57:4 (2002) 545–547Zen and Philosophy: An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitarō by Michiko YusaJames W. Heisig
- MN 57:4 (2002) 548–550Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905–1931 by Gennifer WeisenfeldBert Winther-Tamaki
- MN 57:4 (2002) 550–553Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema: Towards a Political Reading of the “Tragic Hero” by Isolde StandishSharalyn Orbaugh
- MN 57:4 (2002) 553–554The History and Culture of Japanese Food by Naomichi IshigeMark J. Hudson
MN 57:3 (2002) 373–75Prisoners from Nambu: Reality and Make-Believe in 17th-Century Japanese Diplomacy by Reinier H. HesselinkWillem Remmelink- MN 57:3 (2002) 375–78Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912 by Donald KeeneStephen S. Large
- MN 57:3 (2002) 378–81Nakae Tōju (1608–1648) et Kumazawa Banzan (1619–1691): Deux penseurs de l’epoque d’Edo by Jean-François SoumJacques Joly
- MN 57:3 (2002) 381–83Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology by Julia Adeney ThomasBrett L. Walker
- MN 57:3 (2002) 384–86Translating the West: Language and Political Reason in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Douglas R. HowlandKōichirō Matsuda
- MN 57:3 (2002) 386–89Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia: A Feminist Poet from Japan Encounters Prewar China by Yosano Akiko, Joshua A. FogelG. G. Rowley
- MN 57:3 (2002) 389–91Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture by Yoshikuni IgarashiJulian Dierkes
- MN 57:3 (2002) 392–93Adaptations of Western Literature in Meiji Japan by J. Scott MillerPeter F. Kornicki
- MN 57:3 (2002) 394–96Fiktion versus Wirklichkeit: Die moderne historische Erzählung in Japan. Modell einer Genretheorie und -typologie zur rekishi shōsetsu by Harald MeyerMargaret Mehl
- MN 57:3 (2002) 396–99Requiem on the Great Meridian and Selected Essays by Kinoshita Junji, Brian Powell, Jason DanielMari Boyd
- MN 57:3 (2002) 399–402Eine gewisse Farbe der Fremdheit: Aspekte des Übersetzens Japanisch-Deutsch-Japanisch by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitAsa-Bettina Wuthenow
- MN 57:3 (2002) 402–405Art in the Encounter of Nations: Japanese and American Artists in the Early Postwar Years by Bert Winther-TamakiAllen Hockley