Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 47:3 (1992) 397–400Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo by Susan J. NapierVan C. Gessel- MN 47:3 (1992) 400–404Off Center: Power and Cultural Relations Between Japan and the United States by Masao MiyoshiCharles Shirō Inouye
- MN 47:3 (1992) 404–407Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan: The Corporate Villages of Tokuchin-ho by Hitomi TonomuraSuzanne Gay
- MN 47:3 (1992) 407–10The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 4: Early Modern Japan by John W. HallDe-min Tao
- MN 47:3 (1992) 410–11The Deshima Diaries Marginalia 1700–1740 by Paul van der Velde, Rudolf BachofnerDerek Massarella
- MN 47:3 (1992) 411–12Deep Words: Miura Baien’s System of Natural Philosophy by Rosemary MercerPeter Nosco
- MN 47:3 (1992) 413–15Peasant Uprisings in Japan: A Critical Anthology of Peasant Histories by Anne WalthallJames L. McClain
- MN 47:3 (1992) 415–17Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life by Yamakawa Kikue, Kate Wildman NakaiGail Lee Bernstein
- MN 47:3 (1992) 417–19Patriots and Redeemers in Japan: Motives in the Meiji Restoration by George WilsonM. William Steele
- MN 47:3 (1992) 420–21Japan’s Response to the Gorbachev Era, 1985–1991: A Rising Superpower Views a Declining One by Gilbert RozmanJohn J. Stephan
- MN 47:3 (1992) 421–24Hōsōgami ou la petite vérole aisément: Matériaux pour l’étude de épidémies dans le Japon des XVIIIe, XIXe siècles by Harmut O. RotermundAnn Bowman Jannetta
- MN 47:3 (1992) 424–26The White Plum: A Biography of Ume Tsuda, Pioneer in the Higher Education of Women by Yoshiko Furuki; Tsuda Umeko and Women’s Education in Japan by Barbara Rose; The Attic Letters: Ume Tsuda’s Correspondence to Her American Mother by Yoshiko FurukiEdward R. Beauchamp
- MN 47:3 (1992) 426–28Group Psychology of the Japanese in Wartime by Toshio IritaniBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 47:3 (1992) 428–29The Cult of Kasuga Seen Through Its Art by Susan C. TylerRichard B. Pilgrim
- MN 47:3 (1992) 430–31New Religions by Inoue Nobutaka, Norman HavensHarry Byron Earhart
- MN 47:3 (1992) 432–34Religion in Contemporary Japan by Ian ReaderRichard Fox Young
MN 47:2 (1992) 273–76Poems of a Mountain Home: Saigyō by Burton WatsonWilliam R. LaFleur- MN 47:2 (1992) 276–77Tales of Tears and Laughter: Short Fiction of Medieval Japan by Virginia SkordMargaret H. Childs
- MN 47:2 (1992) 278–80A History of Japanese Literature, Volume 3: The High Middle Ages by Konishi Jin’ichi, Aileen Gatten, Mark Harbison, Earl MinerJames Shields
- MN 47:2 (1992) 281–83Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction by Noriko Mizuta Lippit, Kyoko Iriye SeldenSharalyn Orbaugh
- MN 47:2 (1992) 284–86Legacies and Ambiguities: Postwar Fiction and Culture in West Germany and Japan by Ernestine Schlant, J. Thomas RimerDoris G. Bargen
- MN 47:2 (1992) 287–88Notes journalières de Fujiwara no Michinaga, ministre à la cour de Hei.an (995–1018): Traduction du Midô kanpakuki by Francine HérailAileen Gatten
- MN 47:2 (1992) 289–91A History of Law in Japan until 1868 by Carl SteenstrupJeffrey P. Mass
- MN 47:2 (1992) 291–93The Religious Philosophy of Tanabe Hajime: The Metanoetic Imperative by Taitetsu Unno, James W. HeisigJoan Stambaugh
- MN 47:2 (1992) 293–95Kabuki in Modern Japan: Mayama Seika and His Plays by Brian PowellMark Oshima
- MN 47:2 (1992) 295–96The Atomic Bomb Suppressed: American Censorship in Occupied Japan by Monica BrawRoger Buckley
- MN 47:2 (1992) 297–98Learning to Go to School in Japan: The Transition from Home to Preschool Life by Lois PeakPriscilla Mary Anne Blinco
MN 47:1 (1992) 107–109Noh Drama and The Tale of Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays by Janet GoffRichard A. Gardner- MN 47:1 (1992) 109–10The Aesthetics of Discontent: Politics and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Literature by Michele MarraLaurel Rasplica Rodd
- MN 47:1 (1992) 111–12The Colors of Poetry: Essays on Classic Japanese Verse by Ooka Makoto, Takako U. Lento, Thomas V. LentoThomas H. Rohlich
- MN 47:1 (1992) 113–14Night of the Milky Way Railway by Miyazawa Kenji, Sarah M. StrongMeera S. Viswanathan
- MN 47:1 (1992) 114–17Gen’ei: Selected Poems of Nishiwaki Junzaburō, 1894–1982 by Yasuko Claremont; Self-Righting Lamp: Selected Poems by Maruyama Kaoru, Robert EppSarah M. Strong
- MN 47:1 (1992) 117–19Histoire du Japon. by Francine HérailHenry Frei
- MN 47:1 (1992) 119–21Political Thought in Japanese Historical Writing: From Kojiki (712) to Tokushi Yoron (1712) by John S. BrownleeWilliam Wayne Farris
- MN 47:1 (1992) 122–24The Private Correspondence of Isaac Titsingh: Volume 1 (1785–1811) by Frank LequinDerek Massarella
- MN 47:1 (1992) 124–27Hochschulstandorte und Bildungsverhalten unter Aspekten der Raumordnung in Japan by Winfried FlüchterKlaus Luhmer
- MN 47:1 (1992) 127–29Heroic with Grace: Legendary Women of Japan by Chieko Irie MulhernSusan Downing Videen
- MN 47:1 (1992) 129–32Recreating Japanese Women, 1600–1945 by Gail Lee BernsteinGary D. Allinson
- MN 47:1 (1992) 133–35Native and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City by Jennifer RobertsonGary D. Allinson
- MN 47:1 (1992) 135–36An Introduction to Japanese Tea Ritual by Jennifer L. AndersonH. Paul Varley
MN 46:4 (1991) 543–545Rethinking Sorrow: Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan by Margaret Helen ChildsJanet R. Goodwin- MN 46:4 (1991) 545–548Self Portraits: Tales from the life of Japan’s great decadent romantic, Osamu Dazai by Ralph F. McCarthyJoel Cohn
- MN 46:4 (1991) 548–550Language and the Modern State: The Reform of Written Japanese by Nanette TwineJ. Marshall Unger
- MN 46:4 (1991) 550–552The Six National Histories of Japan by Sakamoto Tarō, John S. BrownleeKarl F. Friday
- MN 46:4 (1991) 552–554The Deshima Dagregisters: Their Original Table of Contents, Vol. III, 1700–1710 by Paul van der Velde, Ton Vermeulen; Vol IV, 1710–1720 and Vol V, 1720–1730 by Paul van der VeldeDerek Massarella
- MN 46:4 (1991) 554–556Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The Life and Thought of Kaibara Ekken (1630–1714) by Mary Evelyn TuckerKate Wildman-Nakai
- MN 46:4 (1991) 556–557Tantric Art and Meditation: The Tendai Tradition by Michael SasoPaul L. Swanson
- MN 46:4 (1991) 557–559Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan: The Invention of a Tradition by W. Dean KinzleyStephen S. Large