Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
MN 49:4 (1994) 489–93String of Beads: Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi by Hiroaki SatoRoselee Bundy- MN 49:4 (1994) 493–95Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryōjin Hishō of Twelfth-Century Japan by Yung-Hee KimMargaret H. Childs
- MN 49:4 (1994) 495–98Heart’s Flower: The Life and Poetry of Shinkei by Esperanza Ramirez-ChristensenLinda H. Chance
- MN 49:4 (1994) 498–501Literary Patronage in Late Medieval Japan by Steven CarterRobert N. Huey
- MN 49:4 (1994) 501–503The Fiction of Tokuda Shūsei and the Emergence of Japan’s New Middle Class by Richard TorranceJoel Cohn
- MN 49:4 (1994) 503–506Yoshiwara: The Glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan by Cecilia Segawa SeigleLawrence Rogers
- MN 49:4 (1994) 506–508The Autobiography of Eiichi Shibusawa: From Peasant to Entrepreneur by Teruko CraigGeorge M. Oshiro
- MN 49:4 (1994) 508–511Philosophie in Japan. Von den Anfängen bis zur Heian Zeit: Eine kritische Untersuchung by Gregor PaulJan Van Bragt
- MN 49:4 (1994) 511–514Situated Meaning: Inside and Outside in Japanese Self, Society, and Language by Jane M. Bachnik, Charles J. Quinn, Jr.Stephen P. Nussbaum
- MN 49:4 (1994) 514–516Exquisite Pursuits: Japanese Art in the Harry G. C. Packard Collection by Yoko Woodson, Richard T. MellottElizabeth ten Grotenhuis
- MN 49:4 (1994) 516–518Staying on the Line: Blue-Collar Women in Contemporary Japan by Glenda S. RobertsMary C. Brinton
- MN 49:4 (1994) 518–520Censored Japanese Serials of the Pre-1946 Period: A Checklist of the Microfilm Collections by Yoshiko YoshimuraYasuko Makino
- MN 49:4 (1994) 520–522Japanese Constitutional Law by Percy R. Luney, Jr., Kazuyuki TakahashiMalcolm Smith
- MN 49:4 (1994) 522–523Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits by Ian NishMichael Cooper
MN 49:3 (1994) 375–76Race and Migration in Imperial Japan by Michael WeinerDennis L. McNamara- MN 49:3 (1994) 376–79How Policies Change: The Japanese Government and the Aging Society by John Creighton CampbellE. B. Keehn
- MN 49:3 (1994) 379–81Blueprint for a New Japan: The Rethinking of a Nation by Ichiro Ozawa, Louisa Rubinfien, Eric Gower, Jay RockefellerChalmers Johnson
- MN 49:3 (1994) 382–84Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America by Margaret LockSheila K. Johnson
- MN 49:3 (1994) 385–87European Studies on Ainu Language and Culture by Josef KreinerJohn C. Maher
- MN 49:3 (1994) 387–89School to Work Transition in Japan: An Ethnographic Study by Kaori OkanoWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 49:3 (1994) 389–90Arte Breve da Lingoa Iapoa by Ioam Rodriguez, Hino HiroshiMichael Cooper
MN 49:2 (1994) 229–32Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century by Donald KeeneSonja Arntzen- MN 49:2 (1994) 233–35Poèmes de Fujiwara no Michinaga, ministre à la cour de Hei.an (995–1018) by Francine HérailEileen Katō
- MN 49:2 (1994) 235–37Ono no Komachi: Poems, Stories, Nō Plays by Roy E. Teele, Nicholas J. Teele, H. Rebecca TeeleVirginia Skord Waters
- MN 49:2 (1994) 237–40Representations of Power: The Literary Politics of Medieval Japan by Michele MarraJoshua S. Mostow
- MN 49:2 (1994) 240–41Voyages en d’autres mondes: Récits japonais du XVIe siècle by Jacqueline Pigeot, Kosugi KeikoRoyall Tyler
- MN 49:2 (1994) 241–43Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees: A Masterpiece of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Puppet Theater by Stanleigh H. Jones, Jr.Drew Gerstle
- MN 49:2 (1994) 244–45Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections by Frederick Baekeland, Robert MoesStephen Addiss
- MN 49:2 (1994) 245–47Kimono: Fashioning Culture by Liza Crihfield DalbySharon Sadako Takeda
- MN 49:2 (1994) 247–49Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyAnn Waswo
- MN 49:2 (1994) 249–51Japan’s Political Marketplace by J. Mark Ramseyer, Frances McCall RosenbluthE. B. Keehn
- MN 49:2 (1994) 252–55Alms and Vagabonds: Buddhist Temples and Popular Patronage in Medieval Japan by Janet R. GoodwinIan Reader