Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
- MN 50:3 (1995) 420–23Zenkōji and Its Icon: A Study in Medieval Japanese Religious Art by Donald F. McCallumKaren L. Brock
- MN 50:3 (1995) 423–25Hokusai Paintings: Selected Essays by Gian Carlo Calza, John T. CarpenterDonald Jenkins
- MN 50:3 (1995) 425–28The Actor’s Image: Print Makers of the Katsukawa School by Timothy T. Clark, Osamu Ueda, Donald Jenkins, Naomi Noble RichardPaul Berry
- MN 50:3 (1995) 428–31Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History by Arthur Nolletti, Jr, David DesserCarole Cavanaugh
MN 50:2 (1995) 263–65Youth and Other Stories by Mori Ōgai, J. Thomas RimerMarvin Marcus- MN 50:2 (1995) 266–68The Sick Rose: A Pastoral Elegy by Satō Haruo, Francis B. TennyStephen Dodd
- MN 50:2 (1995) 269–71Approaches to Teaching Murasaki Shikibu’s ‘The Tale of Genji’ by Edward KamensMarian Ury
- MN 50:2 (1995) 271–73Japanese Education Since 1945: A Documentary Study by Edward R. Beauchamp, James M. Vardaman, Jr.Nora M. Evers
- MN 50:2 (1995) 273–75Formierung und Fall der Achse Berlin-Tōkyō by Gerhard Krebs, Bernd MartinRolf-Harald Wippich
- MN 50:2 (1995) 275–76Thailand and Japan’s Southern Advance, 1940–1945 by E. Bruce ReynoldsIan Nish
- MN 50:2 (1995) 277–78Zushū Nihon Toshishi by Takahashi Yasuo, Yoshida Nobuyuki, Miyamoto MasaakiJeffrey E. Hanes
MN 50:1 (1995) 123–24Warriors of Japan, as Portrayed in the War Tales by Paul VarleyKarl F. Friday- MN 50:1 (1995) 125–28An Anthology of Contemporary Japanese Poetry by Leith MortonReiko Tsukimura
- MN 50:1 (1995) 128–30Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence and Nihilism in the World of Yukio Mishima by Roy StarrsSusan Napier
- MN 50:1 (1995) 130–32Sumo and the Woodback Print Masters by Lawrence BickfordHarold Bolitho
- MN 50:1 (1995) 133–35Japan’s ‘Guest Workers’: Issues and Public Policies by Haruo Shimada, Roger NorthridgeKeiko Yamanaka