Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 57:3 (2002) 406–408Japanese Education Reform: Nakasone’s Legacy by Christopher P. HoodPeter Cave- MN 57:3 (2002) 408–409The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan by Hikaru SuzukiEyal Ben-Ari
- MN 57:3 (2002) 410–12Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams by Karen KelskyJames Farrer
MN 57:2 (2002) 229–31The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590–1800 by Brett L. WalkerBruce L. Batten- MN 57:2 (2002) 231–34Yukichi Fukuzawa 1835–1901: The Spirit of Enterprise in Modern Japan by Norio TamakiDouglas Howland
- MN 57:2 (2002) 234–37The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932 by Yoshihisa Tak MatsusakaLouise Young
- MN 57:2 (2002) 237–39The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan by Fujiko HaraDick Stegewerns
- MN 57:2 (2002) 239–42The People’s Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945–1995 by Kenneth J. RuoffStephen S. Large
- MN 57:2 (2002) 242–44Japanese Prehistory: The Material and Spiritual Culture of the Jōmon Period by Nelly NaumannMarie Maurin
- MN 57:2 (2002) 244–46Dieux et Bouddhas au Japon by Bernard FrankAllan G. Grapard
- MN 57:2 (2002) 246–49Chikamatsu: Five Late Plays by C. Andrew GerstleAnne Walthall
- MN 57:2 (2002) 249–52Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyōka by M. Cody PoultonAtsuko Sakaki
- MN 57:2 (2002) 252–54The Lucky Seventh: Early Hōryū-ji and Its Time by J. Edward Kidder, Jr.Donald F. McCallum
- MN 57:2 (2002) 255–57The Practices of Painting in Japan, 1474–1500 by Quitman E. PhillipsMatthew P. McKelway
- MN 57:2 (2002) 257–60Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema by Mitsuhiro YoshimotoAkira Mizuta Lippit
- MN 57:2 (2002) 260–62Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation by Susan J. NapierLynne K. Miyake
- MN 57:2 (2002) 263–65Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan by E. Taylor AtkinsShūhei Hosokawa
- MN 57:2 (2002) 265–66Japanese Sports: A History by Allen Guttmann, Lee ThompsonWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 57:2 (2002) 266–69Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture by Sandra BuckleyIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
MN 57:1 (2002) 91–94Women and Class in Japanese History by Hitomi Tonomura, Anne Walthall, Wakita HarukoGregory M. Pflugfelder- MN 57:1 (2002) 94–96The Historical Demography of Pre-modern Japan by Akira HayamiPhilip C. Brown
- MN 57:1 (2002) 96–99Informationssystem und kulturelles Leben in den Städten der Edo-Zeit by Shiro Kohsaka, Johannes LaubePeter F. Kornicki
- MN 57:1 (2002) 99–104Gesetzgebung im vormodernen Japan: Rechtsgebote und die Ideen der Konfuzianisten in der Edo-Zeit (1603–1868) by Carolin Reimers; Die Entstehung der Meiji-Verfassung: Zur Rolle des deutschen Konstitutionalismus im modernen japanischen Staatswesen by Junko AndoF. B. Verwayen
- MN 57:1 (2002) 104–106Democracy in Pre-War Japan, Concepts of Government, 1871–1937: Collected Essays by Junji Banno, Andrew FraserM. William Steele
- MN 57:1 (2002) 106–109The Victim as Hero: Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan by James J. Orr; Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s) by T. Fujitani, Geoffrey M. White, Lisa YoneyamaSebastian Conrad
- MN 57:1 (2002) 110–12Obaku Zen: The Emergence of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan by Helen J. BaroniMartin Collcutt
- MN 57:1 (2002) 112–14Writing Margins: The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan by Terry KawashimaRajyashree Pandey
- MN 57:1 (2002) 115–17Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature by Philip GabrielDavinder L. Bhowmik
- MN 57:1 (2002) 117–19Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West: Psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics by Steve OdinJoseph S. O'Leary
- MN 57:1 (2002) 120–21Language Planning and Language Change in Japan by Tessa CarrollNanette Gottlieb
- MN 57:1 (2002) 122–23Tezuka Osamu: Figuren, Themen und Erzählstrukturen im Manga-Gesamtwerk by Susanne PhillippsMegumi Maderdonner
- MN 57:1 (2002) 124–26The Changing Face of Japanese Retail: Working in a Chainstore by Louella MatsunagaAviad Raz
- MN 57:1 (2002) 126–29Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan by Tom GillMatthew Marr
- MN 57:1 (2002) 129–32Closing the Shop: Information Cartels and Japan’s Mass Media by Laurie Anne FreemanVerena Blechinger
MN 56:4 (2001) 545–547Bridging the Divide: 400 Years The Netherlands-Japan by Leonard Blussé, Willem Remmelink, Ivo SmitsWolfgang Michel- MN 56:4 (2001) 547–549Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s by Elise K. Tipton, John ClarkJulia Adeney Thomas
- MN 56:4 (2001) 549–551Yanaihara Tadao and Japanese Colonial Policy by Susan C. TownsendDaqing Yang
- MN 56:4 (2001) 551–554The Poetics of Japanese Verse: Imagery, Structure, Meter by Kōji Kawamoto, Stephen Collington, Kevin Collins, Gustav HeldtAileen Gatten
- MN 56:4 (2001) 554–557Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism by Miryam SasSusan Napier
- MN 56:4 (2001) 557–558Amour, colère, couleur: Essais sur le bouddhisme au Japon by Bernard FrankHubert Durt
- MN 56:4 (2001) 558–560Der Eine und Einzige Weg der Götter: Yoshida Kanetomo und die Erfindung des Shinto by Bernhard ScheidMark Teeuwen
- MN 56:4 (2001) 561–563Initiation à la paléographie Japonaise à travers les manuscrits du pèlerinage de Shikoku by Nathalie KouaméBarbara Ambros
- MN 56:4 (2001) 563–567Max Weber und das moderne Japan by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Wolfgang SchwentkerMasahiro Noguchi
- MN 56:4 (2001) 567–570The Shogun’s Painted Culture: Fear and Creativity in the Japanese States 1760–1829 by Timon ScreechAdam L. Kern
- MN 56:4 (2001) 570–572Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architect’s Other Passion by Julia MeechJohn T. Carpenter
- MN 56:4 (2001) 572–574Word and Image in Japanese Cinema by Dennis Washburn, Carole CavanaughPaul Anderer
- MN 56:4 (2001) 574–577Multiethnic Japan by John LieTom Gill
- MN 56:4 (2001) 577–580Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society by Sharon KinsellaJohn Whittier Treat