Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 55:4 (2000) 605–606Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States by Laura Hein, Mark SeldenSebastian Conrad- MN 55:4 (2000) 606–609The I Ching in Tokugawa Thought and Culture: Asian Interactions and Comparisons by Wai-ming NgW. J. Boot
- MN 55:4 (2000) 609–611Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan by John K. NelsonIan Reader
- MN 55:4 (2000) 612–614Yosano Akiko: Poète de la passion et figure de proue du féminisme japonais by Claire DodaneG. G. Rowley
- MN 55:4 (2000) 614–616Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji by G. G. RowleyLaurel Rasplica Rodd
- MN 55:4 (2000) 616–619Endō Shūsaku: A Literature of Reconciliation by Mark B. WilliamsIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 55:4 (2000) 619–622A Sheep’s Song: A Writer’s Reminiscences of Japan and the World by Katō Shūichi, Chia-ning ChangRichard Torrance
- MN 55:4 (2000) 622–624The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory by Michael S. MolaskyJames Dorsey
- MN 55:4 (2000) 625–627Harukor: An Ainu Woman’s Tale by Honda Katsuichi, Kyoko SeldenBrett L. Walker
- MN 55:4 (2000) 627–631Extraordinary Persons: Works by Eccentric, Nonconformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580–1868) in the Collection of Kimiko and John Powers by Kimiko Powers, John Powers, John M. Rosenfield, Fumiko E. Cranston, Naomi Noble RichardJohn T. Carpenter
- MN 55:4 (2000) 631–632Japanese Consumer Behavior: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers by John McCreeryMillie Creighton
MN 55:3 (2000) 441–43Le monde à l’envers: La dynamique de la société médiévale by Pierre F. SouyriReinhard Zöllner- MN 55:3 (2000) 443–45Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950 by Gregory M. PflugfelderMargaret H. Childs
- MN 55:3 (2000) 446–48Alexander von Siebold: Die Tagebücher by Vera SchmidtErnst Lokowandt
- MN 55:3 (2000) 448–51La nation en marche: Études sur le Japon impérial de Meiji by Jean-Jacques Tschudin, Claude HamonDimitri Vanoverbeke
- MN 55:3 (2000) 451–54Thomas William Kinder and the Japanese Imperial Mint, 1868–1875 by Roy S. HanashiroJames C. Baxter
- MN 55:3 (2000) 454–57Total War and ‘Modernization’ by Yasushi Yamanouchi, J. Victor Koschmann, Ryūichi NaritaAndrew E. Barshay
- MN 55:3 (2000) 457–59Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan by Yukiko KoshiroYoshikuni Igarashi
- MN 55:3 (2000) 459–61Fictions of Femininity: Literary Inventions of Gender in Japanese Court Women’s Memoirs by Edith SarraJoshua S. Mostow
- MN 55:3 (2000) 462–64Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Writers by Nina CornyetzNicola Liscutin
- MN 55:3 (2000) 465–67The Weaving of Mantra: Kūkai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse by Ryūichi AbéHendrik van der Veere
- MN 55:3 (2000) 467–70The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community by Scott SchnellEdmund T. Gilday
- MN 55:3 (2000) 470–73Max Weber in Japan: Eine Untersuchung zur Wirkungsgeschichte 1905–1995 by Wolfgang SchwentkerToshiyuki Mitoma
- MN 55:3 (2000) 473–75Learning in Likely Places: Varieties of Apprenticeship in Japan by John SingletonEyal Ben-Ari
- MN 55:3 (2000) 475–77Managing Decline: Japan’s Coal Industry Restructuring and Community Response by Suzanne CulterMatthew Allen
- MN 55:3 (2000) 477–79From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Film by Keiko I. McDonaldDavid Desser
MN 55:2 (2000) 283–85Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands by Mark J. HudsonBruce L. Batten- MN 55:2 (2000) 285–88Heian Japan. Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Japan by Donald H. Shively, William H. McCulloughWilliam Wayne Farris
- MN 55:2 (2000) 288–91Even the Gods Rebel: The Peasants of Takaino and the 1871 Nakano Uprising in Japan by Selçuk EsenbelPatricia Sippel
- MN 55:2 (2000) 291–93War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914–1919 by Frederick R. DickinsonJames L. Huffman
- MN 55:2 (2000) 293–96Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Japan by Kathleen S. UnoDavid R. Ambaras
- MN 55:2 (2000) 296–98Modern Girls, Shining Stars, The Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women by Phyllis BirnbaumRichmod Bollinger
- MN 55:2 (2000) 298–300Soundings in Time: The Fictive Art of Yasunari Kawabata by Roy StarrsGiorgio Amitrano
- MN 55:2 (2000) 300–302The Legend of Gold and Other Stories by Ishikawa Jun, William J. TylerAngela Yiu
- MN 55:2 (2000) 302–305Mirror: The Fiction and Essays of Kōda Aya by Ann SherifMaryellen Toman Mori
- MN 55:2 (2000) 305–307Ōe and Beyond: Fiction in Contemporary Japan by Stephen Snyder, Philip GabrielSeiji M. Lippit
- MN 55:2 (2000) 307–10Buddhistische Zeremoniale [Kōshiki] und ihre Bedeutung für die Literatur des japanischen Mittelalters by Niels GülbergHartmut O. Rotermund
- MN 55:2 (2000) 310–12The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship by Karen A. SmyersKlaus Antoni
- MN 55:2 (2000) 312–15The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan. With the Autobiography of Takahashi Chikuzan by Gerald GroemerIngrid Fritsch
- MN 55:2 (2000) 315–17Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland by Aviad E. RazAnne Allison
- MN 55:2 (2000) 317–19Wörterbücher und Glossare. Eine teilannotierte Bibliographie japanisch-deutscher und deutsch-japanischer Nachschlagewerke. Wa-Doku Doku-Wa jisho, yōgoshū kaidai by Jürgen Stalph, Harald SuppanschitschHartmut Walravens
MN 55:1 (2000) 121–23Osaka: The Merchants’ Capital of Early Modern Japan by James L. McClain, Wakita OsamuAnne Walthall- MN 55:1 (2000) 124–27The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain: Early Travel Encounters in the Far West by Andrew Cobbing; The Iwakura Mission in America and Europe: A New Assessment by Ian NishM. William Steele
- MN 55:1 (2000) 128–29Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. DowerSimon Partner
- MN 55:1 (2000) 129–32Entstehung und Morphologie des klassischen Kyōgen im 17. Jahrhundert: Vom mittelalterlichen Theater der Aussenseiter zum Kammerspiel des Shogunats by Stanca Scholz-CioncaGünter Zobel
- MN 55:1 (2000) 132–35Wandering Heart: The Work and Method of Hayashi Fumiko by Susanna FesslerEve Zimmerman
- MN 55:1 (2000) 135–38Gender Is Fair Game: (Re)Thinking the (Fe)Male in the Works of Ōba Minako by Michiko Niikuni WilsonEileen B. Mikals-Adachi
- MN 55:1 (2000) 138–39Wasser-Spuren: Festschrift für Wolfram Naumann zum 65. Geburtstag by Stanca Scholz-CioncaJohann Nawrocki