Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
- MN 49:2 (1994) 255–57Religion and Society in Modern Japan: Selected Readings by Mark R. Mullins, Shimazono Susumu, Paul L. SwansonCharles H. Hambrick
- MN 49:2 (1994) 258–59Matsuri: Festivals of a Japanese Town by Michael AshkenaziC. Scott Littleton
MN 49:1 (1994) 97–99The Willow in Autumn: Ryūtei Tanehiko, 1783–1842 by Andrew Lawrence MarkusSusan Griswold- MN 49:1 (1994) 99–102New Leaves: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Edward Seidensticker by Aileen Gatten, Anthony Hood ChambersKaren Brazell
- MN 49:1 (1994) 102–105Complicit Fictions: The Subject in the Modern Japanese Prose Narrative by James A. FujiiIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 49:1 (1994) 105–108Early Modern Japan by Conrad TotmanConstantine Nomikos Vaporis
- MN 49:1 (1994) 108–12Japan’s Orient: Rendering Pasts into History by Stefan TanakaJoshua A. Fogel
- MN 49:1 (1994) 112–14China, 1898–1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan by Douglas R. ReynoldsLinda Grove
- MN 49:1 (1994) 114–16The Cross and the Rising Sun. Volume 2, The British Protestant Movement in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, 1865–1945 by A. Hamish IonHelen J. Ballhatchet
- MN 49:1 (1994) 116–19Six Circles, One Dewdrop: The Religio-aesthetic World of Komparu Zenchiku by Arthur H. Thornhill IIIShelley Fenno Quinn
- MN 49:1 (1994) 120–21Japanese Nō Dramas by Royall TylerThomas W. Hare
- MN 49:1 (1994) 121–23Warrior Ghost Plays from the Japanese Noh Theater: Parallel Translations with Running Commentary by Chifumi ShimazakiRebecca Teele
- MN 49:1 (1994) 123–25Transformations, Miracles, and Mischief: The Mountain Priest Plays of Kyōgen by Carolyn Anne MorleyStanca Scholz-Cionca
- MN 49:1 (1994) 125–27Kano Eitoku (1543–1590), Biographie, Oeuvre und Wirkung nach Zeugnissen des 16.-19. Jahrhunderts: eine quellen- und stilkritische Untersuchung by Kano Eitoku, Bettina KleinClaudia Delank
- MN 49:1 (1994) 127–29Art, Tea, and Industry: Masuda Takashi and the Mitsui Circle by Christine M. E. GuthFrederick Baekeland
- MN 49:1 (1994) 129–31When Art Became Fashion: Kosode in Edo-Period Japan by Dale Carolyn Gluckman, Sharon Sadako TakedaRobin E. Muller