Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
- MN 53:4 (1998) 573–575Zen at War by Brian (Daizen) A. VictoriaWilliam M. Bodiford
- MN 53:4 (1998) 575–577The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan: A Study of Their Development, Beliefs and Rituals to the Present Day by Stephen TurnbullPeter Nosco
- MN 53:4 (1998) 577–579Japan’s Golden Age: Momoyama by Money L. HickmanMartin Collcutt
- MN 53:4 (1998) 580–582The Stars Who Created Kabuki: Their Lives, Loves and Legacy by Laurence R. KominzLinda C. Ehrlich
- MN 53:4 (1998) 582–585The Folk Performing Arts: Traditional Culture in Contemporary Japan by Barbara E. ThornburyJane Marie Law
- MN 53:4 (1998) 585–587Arnold Fancks “Die Tochter des Samurai”: Nationalsozialistische Propaganda und Japanische Filmpolitik by Janine HansenGerhard Krebs
- MN 53:4 (1998) 587–589The Japanese Way of Tea: From Its Origins in China to Sen Rikyū by Sen Sōshitsu XV, V. Dixon MorrisLee A. Butler
MN 53:3 (1998) 383–86Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry by Edward KamensJoshua S. Mostow- MN 53:3 (1998) 386–88The Kagero Diary: A Woman’s Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan by Sonja ArntzenLynne K. Miyake
- MN 53:3 (1998) 388–92Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) by Fujitsu Social Science Laboratory Limited; Heike Monogatari (The Tale of Heike) by Fujitsu Social Science Laboratory LimitedAileen Gatten
- MN 53:3 (1998) 392–95Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan by Dennis Washburn, Alan TansmanJoel Cohn
- MN 53:3 (1998) 395–98The Origins of Japan’s Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century by Jeffrey P. MassSuzanne Gay
- MN 53:3 (1998) 398–400Proliferating Talent: Essays on Politics, Thought, and Education in the Meiji Era by Motoyama Yukihiko, J. S. A. Elisonas, Richard RubingerNeil L. Waters
- MN 53:3 (1998) 400–402Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism 1900–1937 by Vera MackieBarbara Molony
- MN 53:3 (1998) 402–404Society and State in Interwar Japan by Elise K. TiptonWilliam Miles Fletcher III
- MN 53:3 (1998) 405–409The Pure Land Tradition: History and Development by James Foard, Michael Solomon, Richard K. Payne; The Collected Works of Shinran by Dennis Hirota, Hisao Inagaki, Michio Tokunaga, Ryushin Uryuzu; Popular Buddhism in Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion and Culture. by Esben Andreasen; Interpreting Amida: History and Orientalism in the Study of Pure Land Buddhism. by Galen AmstutzRichard A. Gardner