Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
- MN 51:1 (1996) 130–33Japan in Traditional and Postmodern Perspectives by Charles Weihsun Fu, Steven HeineJamie Hubbard
- MN 51:1 (1996) 134–36The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono by Joan B. Mirviss, John T. CarpenterMatthi Forrer
- MN 51:1 (1996) 136–39Ceremony and Ritual in Japan: Religious Practices in an Industralized Society by Jan van Bremen, D. P. MartinezDavid W. Plath
- MN 51:1 (1996) 139–41Japanese Workers in Protest: An Ethnography of Consciousness and Experience by Christena L. TurnerAndrew Gordon
MN 50:4 (1995) 551–553Dreams of Difference: The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity by Kevin Michael DoakPaul Anderer- MN 50:4 (1995) 553–555La pensée de Kobayashi Hideo: Un intellectuel japonais au tournant de l’histoire by Ninomiya MasayukiRoy Starrs
- MN 50:4 (1995) 555–558A Guide to Ezra Pound and Ernest Fenollosa’s ‘Classic Noh Theatre of Japan’ by Akiko Miyake, Sanehide Kodama, Nicholas TeeleEileen Katō
- MN 50:4 (1995) 558–560Documentos del Japón, 1547–1557 by Juan Ruiz-de-Medina; Documentos del Japón, 1558–1562 by Juan Ruiz-de-MedinaMichael Cooper
- MN 50:4 (1995) 560–562The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan by Eiko IkegamiH. Paul Varley
- MN 50:4 (1995) 562–566Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan: The Case of Kaga Domain by Philip C. BrownRonald P. Toby
- MN 50:4 (1995) 566–569The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750–1920 by Kären WigenNeil L. Waters
- MN 50:4 (1995) 569–572Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era by James L. McClain, John M. Merriman, Ugawa KaoruPaul Waley
- MN 50:4 (1995) 572–574Capitalism From Within: Economy, Society, and the State in a Japanese Fishery by David L. HowellBrett L. Walker
- MN 50:4 (1995) 574–576Nitobe Inazō: Japan’s Bridge Across the Pacific by John HowesSally Ann Hastings
- MN 50:4 (1995) 577–579Architects of Affluence: The Tsutsumi Family and the Seibu Enterprises in 20th-Century Japan by Thomas R. H. HavensGary D. Allinson
- MN 50:4 (1995) 579–581Haiga: Takebe Sōchō and the Haiku-Painting Tradition by Stephen AddissJoan H. O'Mara
- MN 50:4 (1995) 581–583An American in Japan, 1945–1948: A Civilian View of the Occupation by Jacob Van StaaverenGary DeCoker
- MN 50:4 (1995) 583–586Japanese New Religions in the West by Peter B. Clarke, Jeffrey SomersRichard Fox Young
- MN 50:4 (1995) 586–590Les Mathématiques japonaises à l’époque d’Edo (1600–1868): Une étude des travaux de Seki Takakazu (?–1708) et de Takebe Katahiro (1664–1739) by Annick HoriuchiDénes Nagy
MN 50:3 (1995) 387–89Genji and Heike: Selections from ‘The Tale of Genji’ and ‘The Tale of the Heike’ by Helen Craig McCulloughThomas H. Rohlich- MN 50:3 (1995) 389–92The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction by Dennis C. WashburnAnn Sherif
- MN 50:3 (1995) 392–94The Secret Window: Ideal Worlds in Tanizaki’s Fiction by Anthony Hood ChambersRoy Starrs
- MN 50:3 (1995) 394–96Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb by John Whittier TreatDavid G. Goodman
- MN 50:3 (1995) 396–99The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto by Mary Elizabeth BerryMartin Collcutt
- MN 50:3 (1995) 400–401Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan by Arne KallandConrad Totman
- MN 50:3 (1995) 401–403Master Sorai’s Responsals: An Annotated Translation of ‘Sorai Sensei Tōmon-sho’ by Samuel Hideo YamashitaJames McMullen
- MN 50:3 (1995) 403–406Japan’s Treaty Ports and Foreign Settlements: The Uninvited Guests, 1858–1899 by J. E. HoareF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 50:3 (1995) 406–408Japan’s Early Parliaments, 1890–1905: Structure, Issues and Trends by Andrew Fraser, R. H. P. Mason, Philip MitchellGeorge Akita
- MN 50:3 (1995) 408–11The Way of the Heavenly Sword: The Japanese Army in the 1920s by Leonard A. HumphreysWilliam Miles Fletcher III
- MN 50:3 (1995) 411–13The Origins of Ethnography in Japan: Yanagita Kunio and His Times by Minoru Kawada, Toshiko Kishida-EllisRonald A. Morse
- MN 50:3 (1995) 413–17Jews in the Japanese Mind: The History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype by David G. Goodman, Masanori MiyazawaJohn Clammer
- MN 50:3 (1995) 417–20Dōgen and the Kōan Tradition: A Tale of Two Shōbōgenzō Texts by Steven HeineDavid Landis Barnhill