Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 51:4 (1996) 478–80La cour du Japon à l’époque de Heian aux Xe et Xie siècles by Francine HérailSonja Arntzen- MN 51:4 (1996) 481–83Tokugawa Village Practice: Class, Status, Power, Law by Herman OomsJames W. White
- MN 51:4 (1996) 483–85The Furthest Goal: Engelbert Kaempfer’s Encounter with Tokugawa Japan by Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey, Derek MassarellaMarius B. Jansen
- MN 51:4 (1996) 486–87Adams the Pilot: The Life and Times of Captain William Adams, 1564–1620 by William Corr; Hannah Riddell: An Englishwoman in Japan by Julia BoydMichael Cooper
- MN 51:4 (1996) 487–90The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895–1910 by Peter DuusMichael Robinson
- MN 51:4 (1996) 490–92The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China, 1862–1945 by Joshua A. FogelDavid Pollack
- MN 51:4 (1996) 492–93La Donna È Mobile: Das modan gāru als Erscheinung der modernen Stadtkultur by Richmod BollingerJennifer Robertson
- MN 51:4 (1996) 494–96To Dream of Dreams: Religious Freedom and Constitutional Politics in Postwar Japan by David M. O’Brien, Yasuo OhkoshiKenneth L. Port
- MN 51:4 (1996) 496–99Migrant Workers in Japan by Hiroshi Komai, Jens WilkinsonGlenda S. Roberts
- MN 51:4 (1996) 499–501Contemporary Politics in Japan by Masumi Junnosuke, Lonny E. CarlileLee W. Farnsworth
- MN 51:4 (1996) 501–503The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan by Steven J. EricsonPaul H. Noguchi
- MN 51:4 (1996) 503–504Kanji Politics: Language Policy and Japanese Script by Nanette GottliebGerald B. Mathias
- MN 51:4 (1996) 505–507Understanding Shinran: A Dialogical Approach by Hee-sung KeelGalen Amstutz
- MN 51:4 (1996) 507–510Dōgen’s Pure Standards for the Zen Community: A Translation of ‘Eihei Shingi’ by Taigen Daniel Leighton, Shohaku OkumuraT. Griffith Foulk
- MN 51:4 (1996) 510–513Religion in Japan: Arrows to Heaven and Earth by P. F. Kornicki, I. J. McMullenJanet R. Goodwin
- MN 51:4 (1996) 513–515A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine by John K. NelsonKaren A. Smyers
- MN 51:4 (1996) 516–518Sur un fond blanc: Ecrits japonais sur la peinture du IXe au XIXe siècle by Verǎ LinhartováMarie-Thérèse Barrett
- MN 51:4 (1996) 518–520The Beginnings of Western Music in Meiji Era Japan by Ury EppsteinGerald Groemer
- MN 51:4 (1996) 521–523Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City, 1615–1868 by Christine GuthKaren M. Gerhart
- MN 51:4 (1996) 523–526Educating Hearts and Minds: Reflections on Japanese Preschool and Elementary Education by Catherine C. LewisDaiyo Sawada
- MN 51:4 (1996) 526–527Jomon of Japan: The World’s Oldest Pottery by Douglas Moore KenrickPeter Bleed
MN 51:3 (1996) 375–77Japanese Loyalism Reconstrued: Yamagata Daini’s Ryūshi shinron of 1759 by Bob Tadashi WakabayashiKate Wildman-Nakai- MN 51:3 (1996) 377–80The Meiji Unification through the Lens of Ishikawa Prefecture by James C. BaxterJames L. McClain
- MN 51:3 (1996) 380–81The Lumber Industry in Early Modern Japan by Conrad TotmanPhilip C. Brown
- MN 51:3 (1996) 382–83Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition by Laurence R. KominzStanleigh H. Jones
- MN 51:3 (1996) 383–86Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism by Bernard Faure, Phyllis BrooksSteven Heine
- MN 51:3 (1996) 386–87Shapers of Japanese Buddhism by Yusen Kashiwahara, Koyu Sonoda, Gaynor SekimoriPaul O. Ingram
- MN 51:3 (1996) 387–88A New Woman of Japan: A Political Biography of Katō Shidzue by Helen M. HopperLinda L. Johnson
- MN 51:3 (1996) 389–91Japanese Women: New Feminist Perspectives of the Past, Present and Future by Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow, Atsuko KamedaMerry I. White
- MN 51:3 (1996) 391–92Sociology and Society of Japan by Nozomu KawamuraWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 51:3 (1996) 392–94Kendō: Its Philosophy, History and Means to Personal Growth by Minoru KiyotaKarl F. Friday
- MN 51:3 (1996) 394–97Makiko’s Diary: A Merchant Wife in 1910 Kyoto by Nakano Makiko, Kazuko SmithHelen M. Hooper
- MN 51:3 (1996) 397–400Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film by Darrell William DavisBrian Lewis
- MN 51:3 (1996) 400–402Meiji Revisited: The Sites of Victorian Japan by Dallas FinnJohn Mock
- MN 51:3 (1996) 402–405A Poisonous Cocktail? Aum Shinrikyo’s Path to Violence by Ian Reader; The Cult at the End of the World. The Incredible Story of Aum by David E. Kaplan, Andrew Marshall; Holy Terror: Armageddon in Tokyo by D. W. BrackettRichard A. Gardner
MN 51:2 (1996) 257–59Ikki: Social Conflict and Political Protest in Early Modern Japan by James W. WhiteAnne Walthall- MN 51:2 (1996) 259–61Japan Encounters the Barbarian: Japanese Travellers in America and Europe by W. G. BeasleyRoy S. Hanashiro
- MN 51:2 (1996) 262–63Saigō Takamori: The Man Behind the Myth by Charles L. YatesSidney DeVere Brown
- MN 51:2 (1996) 263–65Principle, Praxis, and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan by Mark E. LincicomeDonald Roden
- MN 51:2 (1996) 265–68Wind in the Pines: Classic Writings of the Way of Tea as a Buddhist Path by Dennis HirotaTheodore M. Ludwig
- MN 51:2 (1996) 268–70The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro by Shūgō Asano, Timothy ClarkDonald Jenkins
- MN 51:2 (1996) 270–72Lacquerware from the Weston Collection: A Selection of Inro and Boxes by Julia MeechHugh Wylie
- MN 51:2 (1996) 273–75Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan by Marilyn IvyEyal Ben-Ari
- MN 51:2 (1996) 276–77Textiles and Industrial Transition in Japan by Dennis L. McNamaraBarbara Molony
MN 51:1 (1996) 121–23Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos VaporisLuke S. Roberts- MN 51:1 (1996) 123–25Motoori Norinaga’s ‘The Two Shrines of Ise: An Essay of Split Bamboo’ by Mark TeeuwenJohn Allen Tucker
- MN 51:1 (1996) 125–27Learning To Be Modern: Japanese Political Discourse on Education by Byron K. MarshallEdward R. Beauchamp
- MN 51:1 (1996) 128–30Neighborhood and Nation in Tokyo, 1905–1937 by Sally Ann HastingsStephen S. Large