Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
- MN 46:3 (1991) 392–95MacArthur’s Japanese Constitution: A Linguistic and Cultural Study of Its Making by Kyoko InoueThomas W. Burkman
- MN 46:3 (1991) 395–98Zen Buddhism: A History by Heinrich Dumoulin, James W. Heisig, Paul Knitter. Volume 1: India and China; Volume 2: JapanRobert B. Zeuschner
- MN 46:3 (1991) 398–401Tao-sheng’s Commentary on the Lotus Sutra by Young-ho KimWilliam E. Deal
- MN 46:3 (1991) 401–403Selected Writings of Nichiren by Burton Watson, Philip B. YampolskyRichard K. Payne
- MN 46:3 (1991) 403–405The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way: A Translation of Shinran’s Kyōgyōshinshō, Volume IV by Yoshifumi UedaRoger J. Corless
- MN 46:3 (1991) 406–408The Way of the Japanese Carpenter: Tools and Japanese Architecture by William H. CoaldrakeJordan Sand
- MN 46:3 (1991) 408–11Rakugo: The Popular Narrative Art of Japan by Heinz Morioka, Miyoko SasakiEdward Fowler
- MN 46:3 (1991) 411–14Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan by Susan J. PharrEllis S. Krauss
- MN 46:3 (1991) 415–17Education Reform in Japan: A Case of Immobilist Politics by Leonard James SchoppaEdward R. Beauchamp
- MN 46:3 (1991) 417–19Jinsei Annai, ‘Life’s Guide’: Glimpses of Japan Through a Popular Advice Column by John A. McKinstry, Asako Nakajima McKinstryMichael Cooper
MN 46:2 (1991) 253–55Kanshi: The Poetry of Ishikawa Jōzan and Other Edo-period Poets by Burton WatsonMarian Ury- MN 46:2 (1991) 255–58Acts of Worship: Seven Stories by Yukio Mishima, John BesterAlan Wolfe
- MN 46:2 (1991) 258–59Japan in Europa: Texte und Bilddokumente zur Europäischen Japankenntnis von Marco Polo bis Wilhelm von Humbolt by Peter KapitzaNorbert R. Adami
- MN 46:2 (1991) 259–61Life Along the South Manchurian Railway: The Memoirs of Itō Takeo by Joshua A. FogelAlvin D. Coox
- MN 46:2 (1991) 261–63Norito: A Translation of the Ancient Japanese Ritual Prayers by Donald L. PhilippiRichard A. Gardner
- MN 46:2 (1991) 263–66The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity by Royall TylerBruce Darling
- MN 46:2 (1991) 266–68An Inquiry into the Good by Kitarō Nishida, Masao Abe, Christopher IvesMichiko Yusa
- MN 46:2 (1991) 268–72Die Entsehung des Kabuki: Transkulturation Europa-Japan im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert by Thomas F. LeimsNicola Liscutin
- MN 46:2 (1991) 272–73Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution by James Edward KetelaarJohn Breen
- MN 46:2 (1991) 273–74The Cross and the Rising Sun: The Canadian Missionary Movement in the Japanese Empire, 1872–1931 by A. Hamish IonB. J. Evans
MN 46:1 (1991) 111–12A Cat, A Man, and Two Women: Stories by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki by Paul McCarthyVan C. Gessel- MN 46:1 (1991) 112–16Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu by Alan WolfeDavid Pollack
- MN 46:1 (1991) 116–19Was heißt: Japanische Literatur verstehen? Zur modernen japanischen Literatur und Literaturkritik by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitDoris G. Bargen
- MN 46:1 (1991) 119–20Das Japanbild im ‘Traktat’ (1585) des Luis Frois by Engelbert JorissenArcadio Schwade
- MN 46:1 (1991) 120–23Tokugawa Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan by Chie Nakane, Shinzaburō Ōishi, Conrad TotmanConstantine Nomikos Vaporis
- MN 46:1 (1991) 123–25Rioters and Citizens: Mass Protest in Imperial Japan by Michael LewisAnne Walthall
- MN 46:1 (1991) 125–27Theater as Music: The Bunraku Play ‘Mt. Imo and Mt. Se: An Exemplary Tale of Womanly Virtue’ by C. Andrew Gerstle, Kiyoshi Inobe, William P. MalmA. Kimi Coaldrake
- MN 46:1 (1991) 128–30Impermanence is Buddha-nature: Dōgen’s Understanding of Temporality by Joan StambaughHee-Jin Kim
- MN 46:1 (1991) 130–32Sun at Midnight: Poems and Sermons by Musō Soseki by W. S. Merwin, Sōiku ShigematsuRobert E. Morrell
- MN 46:1 (1991) 133–36Nō-Theater: Szene und Dramaturgie, volks- und völkerkundliche Hintergründe by Günter ZobelDarko Suvin
- MN 46:1 (1991) 136–37Japanese Agriculture: Patterns of Rural Development by Richard H. MoorePenelope Francks
- MN 46:1 (1991) 138–40Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan by E. Patricia TsurumiSally Ann Hastings