Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 54:3 (1999) 413–15Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry by Steve RabsonJoan E. Ericson- MN 54:3 (1999) 415–16Akai tori in den Jahren 1918/1919. Die Entstehung einer modernen japanischen Kinderzeitschrift by Britta WolderingHarald Fuess
- MN 54:3 (1999) 416–19La Supercherie dévoilée: Une réfutation du catholicisme au Japon au XVIIe siècle by Christόvão Ferreira, Jacques Proust, Marianne ProustMichael Cooper
- MN 54:3 (1999) 419–21Christianity Made in Japan: A Study of Indigenous Movements by Mark R. MullinsSusumu Shimazono
- MN 54:3 (1999) 422–24Tea of the Sages: The Art of Sencha by Patricia J. GrahamChristine M. E. Guth
- MN 54:3 (1999) 424–26Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife by Robin M. LeBlancAnne E. Imamura
- MN 54:3 (1999) 427–29Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies by Yuko OgasawaraLouella Matsunaga
- MN 54:3 (1999) 429–31The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures by D. P. MartinezDoug Slaymaker
- MN 54:3 (1999) 431–34Japanstudien: Jahrbuch des Deutschen Instituts für Japanstudien der Philipp Franz von Siebold Stiftung. Vol. 10: “Japans neue Rolle in Asien” by Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien der Philipp Franz von Siebold StiftungHartwig Hummel
MN 54:2 (1999) 267–69Japans Kurtisanen: Eine Kulturgeschichte der japanischen Meisterinnen der Unterhaltungskunst und Erotik aus zwölf Jahrhunderten by Michael SteinKlaus Vollmer- MN 54:2 (1999) 270–72Le naturel selon Andō Shōeki: Un type de discours sur la nature et la spontanéité par un maître-confucéen de l’époque Tokugawa: Andō Shōeki (1703–1762) by Jacques JolyKarine Marandjian
- MN 54:2 (1999) 272–74The Junk Trade from Southeast Asia: Translations from the Tōsen Fusetsugaki, 1674–1723 by Yoneo IshiiWillem Remmelink
- MN 54:2 (1999) 274–76Zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Die Bewegung für den Fortbestand der Kanpō-Medizin in Japan by Christian OberländerYukiko Fujita
- MN 54:2 (1999) 276–78Frauen zwischen Rollenerwartung und Selbstdeutung: Ehe, Mutterschaft und Liebe im Spiegel der japanischen Frauenzeitschrift Shin shin fujin von 1913 bis 1916 by Ulrike WöhrHilaria Gössmann
- MN 54:2 (1999) 278–81Interpreting History in Sino-Japanese Relations: A Case Study in Decision-Making by Caroline RoseC. W. Braddick
- MN 54:2 (1999) 281–82Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan: The Works of Poet-Priest Kamo no Chōmei by Rajyashree PandeyMargaret H. Childs
- MN 54:2 (1999) 283–85Breeze Through Bamboo: Kanshi of Ema Saikō with Illustrations by the Poet by Hiroaki SatoRobert Campbell
- MN 54:2 (1999) 286–88The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Kyōka (1873–1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright by Charles Shirō InouyeAngela Yiu
- MN 54:2 (1999) 289–90Européens & Japonais: Traité sur les contradictions & différences de moeurs, écrit par le R. P. Luís Fróis, au Japon, l’an 1585 by Luís Fróis, Xavier de CastroMichael Cooper
- MN 54:2 (1999) 290–92“La sieste sous l’aile du cormoran” et autres poèmes magiques: Prolégomènes à l’étude des concepts religieux du Japon by Hartmut O. RotermundRoyall Tyler
- MN 54:2 (1999) 292–93Women and Religion in Japan by Akiko Okuda, Haruko Okano, Alison WattsMark R. Mullins
- MN 54:2 (1999) 293–95The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure by Sepp Linhart, Sabine FrühstückCarolyn Stevens
- MN 54:2 (1999) 295–97About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater by Dorinne KondoMariko Asano Tamanoi
MN 54:1 (1999) 123–26Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures: Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan by William Wayne FarrisGina L. Barnes- MN 54:1 (1999) 126–27French Policy Towards the Bakufu and Meiji Japan 1854–95 by Richard SimsMark D. Ericson
- MN 54:1 (1999) 128–30Lorenz von Steins Arbeiten für Japan: Österreichisch-Japanische Rechtsbeziehungen II by Kazuhiro TakiiCarl Steenstrup
- MN 54:1 (1999) 130–32Japan, Race, and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919 by Naoko ShimazuSharon A. Minichiello
- MN 54:1 (1999) 133–35Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan by Stephen VlastosAnn Waswo
- MN 54:1 (1999) 135–37More Than a Momentary Nightmare: The Yokohama Incident and Wartime Japan by Janice MatsumuraSandra Wilson
- MN 54:1 (1999) 138–40Records of Wind and Earth: A Translation of Fudoki, with Introduction and Commentaries by Michiko Y. AokiAnn Wehmeyer
- MN 54:1 (1999) 140–42Formless in Form: Kenkō, Tsurezuregusa, and the Rhetoric of Japanese Fragmentary Prose by Linda H. ChanceThomas H. Rohlich
- MN 54:1 (1999) 143–46Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashō by Haruo ShiraneAdam L. Kern
- MN 54:1 (1999) 146–48Twelve Centuries of Japanese Art from the Imperial Collections by Ann YonemuraChie Ishibashi
- MN 54:1 (1999) 149–50La Japonésie: Géopolitique et géographie historique de la surinsularité au Japon by Philippe PelletierAlexander M. Kabanoff
- MN 54:1 (1999) 151–54Japan: Nature, Artifice, and Japanese Culture by Augustin Berque, Ross Schwartz; Japan: Cities and Social Bonds by Augustin Berque, Christopher TurnerRichard A. Gardner
- MN 54:1 (1999) 154–57Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women by Mariko Asano TamanoiKerry Smith
- MN 54:1 (1999) 157–59On the Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass by Carolyn S. StevensGlenda S. Roberts
- MN 54:1 (1999) 160–62The Films of Oshima Nagisa: Images of a Japanese Iconoclast by Maureen TurimAkira Mizuta Lippit
- MN 54:1 (1999) 162–65Armed Martial Arts of Japan: Swordsmanship and Archery by G. Cameron Hurst IIIThomas Conlan
MN 53:4 (1998) 549–551The Formation of the Canon of Nō: The Literary Tradition of Divine Authority by Gerry Yokota-MurakamiSusan Blakeley Klein- MN 53:4 (1998) 552–554Studies in the Comic Spirit in Modern Japanese Fiction by Joel R. CohnJanice Brown
- MN 53:4 (1998) 554–557Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600–1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu by John S. BrownleeMargaret Mehl
- MN 53:4 (1998) 557–560Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: From the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century by Etsuko Hae-Jin KangNam-lin Hur
- MN 53:4 (1998) 560–562History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Margaret MehlBob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- MN 53:4 (1998) 563–565The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan by Nimura Kazuo, Andrew Gordon, Terry BoardmanSally Ann Hastings
- MN 53:4 (1998) 565–568Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism by Louise YoungSheldon Garon
- MN 53:4 (1998) 568–570Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan by Peter WetzlerStephen S. Large
- MN 53:4 (1998) 571–573Re-Inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation by Tessa Morris-SuzukiBruce L. Batten