Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 56:4 (2001) 580–581Japan: Der andere Kulturführer by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitJames Farrer
MN 56:3 (2001) 405–406Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered by Jeroen LamersConrad Totman- MN 56:3 (2001) 406–408The Satsuma Students in Britain: Japan’s Early Search for the “Essence of the West” by Andrew CobbingW. F. Vande Walle
- MN 56:3 (2001) 409–13History’s Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life by Harry Harootunian; Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan by Harry HarootunianSepp Linhart
- MN 56:3 (2001) 413–15The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600–2000. Volume II: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension, 1931–2000 by Ian Nish, Yoichi KibataRolf-Harald Wippich
- MN 56:3 (2001) 415–18Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan by Timothy S. GeorgeDavid Leheny
- MN 56:3 (2001) 418–22Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan by Rebecca L. Copeland; Women Writers of Meiji and Taishō Japan: Their Lives, Works, and Critical Reception, 1868–1926 by Yukiko TanakaAngela Yiu
- MN 56:3 (2001) 422–24A Study into the Thought of Kōgyō Daishi Kakuban: With a Translation of His “Gorin kuji myō himitsushaku” by Henny van der VeereBrian D. Ruppert
- MN 56:3 (2001) 425–27Shifting Shape Shaping Text: Philosophy and Folklore in the Fox Kōan by Steven HeineAlexander M. Kabanoff
- MN 56:3 (2001) 428–30From Austere Wabi to Golden Wabi: Philosophical and Aesthetic Aspects of Wabi in the Way of Tea by Minna TorniainenH. Paul Varley
- MN 56:3 (2001) 430–32Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement by Joanne BernardiJeffrey A. Dym
- MN 56:3 (2001) 433–34Learning to be Adolescent: Growing Up in U.S. and Japanese Middle Schools by Gerald K. LeTendreCatherine Lewis
- MN 56:3 (2001) 435–37Gambling with Virtue: Japanese Women and the Search for Self in a Changing Nation by Nancy RosenbergerYuko Ogasawara
- MN 56:3 (2001) 437–38Japanese Thought in the Tokugawa Era: A Bibliography of Western-Language Materials by Klaus KrachtPeter F. Kornicki
MN 56:2 (2001) 255–57The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. JansenMichael Lewis- MN 56:2 (2001) 257–60The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910: Gateway to the Island Empire of the East by Ayako Hotta-ListerEllen P. Conant
- MN 56:2 (2001) 261–63Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan by Gerald FigalAdam Kabat
- MN 56:2 (2001) 263–66Japan’s Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China 1895–1938 by Barbara J. BrooksC. W. Braddick
- MN 56:2 (2001) 266–69The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography by Joshua A. Fogel; Documents on the Rape of Nanking by Timothy BrookTokushi Kasahara
- MN 56:2 (2001) 270–72Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archeology of Sensation and Inscription by Thomas LaMarreRein Raud
- MN 56:2 (2001) 273–75Fictions of Desire: Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafū by Stephen SnyderAngela Yiu
- MN 56:2 (2001) 276–79Mishima Yukio: Esthétique classique, univers tragique: D’Apollon et Dionysos à Sade et Bataille by Annie CecchiStephen Snyder
- MN 56:2 (2001) 279–82Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami by John Breen, Mark TeeuwenFabio Rambelli
- MN 56:2 (2001) 282–84Prophets of Peace by Robert KisalaHelen Hardacre
- MN 56:2 (2001) 284–87Lives of Young Koreans in Japan by Yasunori Fukuoka, Tom GillOkpyo Moon
- MN 56:2 (2001) 287–89Great Mirrors Shattered: Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan by John Whittier TreatPaul Gordon Schalow
- MN 56:2 (2001) 290–92Catalogue of the Early Japanese Books in the Russian State Library by Peter F. KornickiKarine Marandjian
- MN 56:2 (2001) 292–94Word-Processing Technology in Japan: Kanji and the Keyboard by Nanette Gottlieb; Dennō kokubungaku: Intānetto de hirogaru koten no sekai by Kanji Bunken Jōhō Shori KenkyūkaiMichael G. Watson
MN 56:1 (2001) 99–101A History of Japan by Conrad TotmanWilliam Wayne Farris- MN 56:1 (2001) 102–104Gender and Japanese History. Vol. 1: Religion and Customs/The Body and Sexuality; Vol. 2: The Self and Expression/Work and Life by Wakita Haruko, Anne Bouchy, Ueno Chizuko, Gerry Yokota-MurakamiSally Ann Hastings
- MN 56:1 (2001) 104–107Becoming Apart: National Power and Local Politics in Toyama, 1868–1954 by Michael LewisNeil L. Waters
- MN 56:1 (2001) 107–10Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. BixStephen S. Large
- MN 56:1 (2001) 110–13Renegade Monk: Hōnen and Japanese Pure Land Buddhism by Soho Machida, Ioannis MentzasMark L. Blum
- MN 56:1 (2001) 113–15Unbefangenheit: Keichūs Beitrag zur Wissenschaftstheorie im frühneuzeitlichen Japan by Markus RüttermannHeidi Buck-Albulet
- MN 56:1 (2001) 115–18Ogyū Sorai’s Discourse on Government (Seidan): An Annotated Translation by Olof G. LidinJacques Joly
- MN 56:1 (2001) 118–20Essays on the Modern Japanese Church: Christianity in Meiji Japan by Yamaji Aizan, Graham SquiresF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 56:1 (2001) 120–23Yoshimoto Takaaki: Ein Kritiker zwischen Dialektik und Differenz by Reinold Ophüls-KashimaKazuyuki Hosomi
- MN 56:1 (2001) 123–25The Eyes of Power: Art and Early Tokugawa Authority by Karen M. GerhartWilliam H. Coaldrake
- MN 56:1 (2001) 125–28Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyō, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism by Robert Jay Lifton; Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyō by Ian ReaderRichard A. Gardner
- MN 56:1 (2001) 129–31Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News by Ellis S. KraussDavid Leheny
- MN 56:1 (2001) 131–34Lives in Motion: Composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan by Susan Orpett LongTakie Sugiyama Lebra
- MN 56:1 (2001) 134–36Von Siebold’s Botanical Treasures in Leiden. CD-ROM by Ingrid de Kort, Jeanette Ridder-Numan, Gerard Thijsse, Nobushige Kato, Takao YamaguchiWybe Kuitert
- MN 56:1 (2001) 136–37Kulturbeziehungen zwischen Japan und dem Westen seit 1853: Eine annotierte Bibliographie by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitGerhard Krebs
MN 55:4 (2000) 593–595Misère et crime au Japon du XVIIe siècle à nos jours by Philippe PonsHerman Ooms- MN 55:4 (2000) 595–598Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensōji and Edo Society by Nam-lin HurConstantine Nomikos Vaporis
- MN 55:4 (2000) 598–599Remembering Aizu: The Testament of Shiba Gorō by Ishimitsu Mahito, Teruko CraigAnne Walthall
- MN 55:4 (2000) 600–602Japan Comes of Age: Mutsu Munemitsu and the Revision of the Unequal Treaties by Louis G. PerezGordon Mark Berger
- MN 55:4 (2000) 602–604Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer by Simon PartnerAnn Waswo