Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
- MN 46:4 (1991) 559–562Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan by Andrew GordonAndrew E. Barshay
- MN 46:4 (1991) 562–564Japanese Part-Time Farming: Evolution and Impacts by Raymond Adelard Jussaume, Jr.Penelope Francks
- MN 46:4 (1991) 564–566Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan by Ikuya SatoWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 46:4 (1991) 567–569Japan’s ‘International Youth’: The Emergence of a New Class of Schoolchildren by Roger GoodmanJames J. Shields, Jr.
- MN 46:4 (1991) 569–572The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism by Nishitani Keiji, Graham Parkes, Setsuko Aihara; The Religious Philosophy of Nishitani Keiji: Encounter with Emptiness by Taitetsu UnnoJoseph S. O'Leary
- MN 46:4 (1991) 572–574Nishida Kitarō by Nishitani Keiji, Yamamoto Seisaku, James W. HeisigMichiko Yusa
- MN 46:4 (1991) 574–577The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa by Stephen PrinceJoanne R. Bernardi
MN 46:3 (1991) 369–72Classical Japanese Prose: An Anthology by Helen Craig McCulloughAileen Gatten- MN 46:3 (1991) 372–75The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess: Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashū by Edward KamensSonja Arntzen
- MN 46:3 (1991) 375–78Chaos and Cosmos: Ritual in Early and Medieval Japanese Literature by Herbert E. PlutschowGary L. Ebersole
- MN 46:3 (1991) 378–81Chikuma River Sketches by Shimazaki Tōson, William E. NaffCharles Shirō Inouye
- MN 46:3 (1991) 381–84A History of Writing in Japan by Christopher SeeleyJ. Marshall Unger
- MN 46:3 (1991) 384–85Eine schwierige Nachbarschaft: Die Geschichte der russisch-japanischen Beziehungen. Volume 1, Von den Anfängen bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts by Norbert R. AdamiJohn J. Stephan
- MN 46:3 (1991) 386–88The Emperor System in Modern Japan. Acta Asiatica, No. 59 by Banno JunjiStephen S. Large
- MN 46:3 (1991) 388–90Japan’s Southward Advance and Australia: From the Sixteenth Century to World War II by Henry P. FreiJ. J. Eddy
- MN 46:3 (1991) 390–92The Japanese Police State: The Tokkō in Interwar Japan by Elise K. TiptonRichard H. Mitchell