Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 46:1 (1991) 140–41Office Ladies, Factory Women: Life and Work at a Japanese Company by Jeannie LoJoy Hendry- MN 46:1 (1991) 141–44Unwrapping Japan: Society and Culture in Anthropological Perspective by Eyal Ben-Ari, Brian Moeran, James ValentineWalter Edwards
- MN 46:1 (1991) 144–46Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake by Edward SeidenstickerPaul Waley
MN 45:4 (1990) 471–74Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan by Gary L. EbersoleGina L. Barnes- MN 45:4 (1990) 474–76Red Lights: Selected Tanka Sequences from Shakkō by Mokichi Saitō, Seishi Shinoda, Sanford GoldsteinMeera S. Viswanathan
- MN 45:4 (1990) 476–77Long, Long Autumn Nights: Selected Poems of Oguma Hideo, 1901–1940 by David G. GoodmanSteve Rabson
- MN 45:4 (1990) 478–80With Perry to Japan: A Memoir by William Heine by Frederic TrautmannM. William Steele
- MN 45:4 (1990) 480–82Nakae Ushikichi in China: The Mourning of Spirit by Joshua A. FogelBarbara Molony
- MN 45:4 (1990) 482–84An Instance of Treason: Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge Spy Ring by Chalmers JohnsonJohn J. Stephan
- MN 45:4 (1990) 485–86On a Riverboat Journey: A Handscroll by Itō Jakuchū, with Poems by Daiten trans. Hiroshi OnishiKenneth Gardner
- MN 45:4 (1990) 487–89Shinran: An Introduction to His Thought by Yoshifumi Ueda, Dennis HirotaJames C. Dobbins
- MN 45:4 (1990) 490–91Der Japanische Ōbaku Mönch Tetsugen Dōkō: Leben, Denken, Schriften by Dieter SchwallerJan Van Bragt
- MN 45:4 (1990) 492–94Japan und Heidegger: Gedenkschrift der Stadt Meßkirch zum 100. Geburtstag Martin Heideggers by Harmut BuchnerGregor Paul
- MN 45:4 (1990) 495–97The Kyogen Book: An Anthology of Japanese Classical Comedies by Don KennyCarolyn Haynes
- MN 45:4 (1990) 497–99La Ligue du Théâtre Prolétarien Japonais by Jean-Jacques TschudinBrian Powell
- MN 45:4 (1990) 499–501Education and Examination in Modern Japan by Ikuo Amano, William K. Cummings, Fumiko CummingsRoger Goodman
- MN 45:4 (1990) 501–504Japanese Models of Conflict Resolution by S. N. Eisenstadt, Eyal Ben-AriPatricia G. Steinhoff
- MN 45:4 (1990) 504–506From Paddy Field to Ski Slope: The Revitalisation of Tradition in Japanese Village Life by Okpyo MoonHarumi Befu
- MN 45:4 (1990) 506–507Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture by Richard Gid Powers, Katō HidetoshiWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 45:4 (1990) 507–508Japan: World Bibliographical Series, Volume 103 by Frank Joseph ShulmanJohn J. Stephan
MN 45:3 (1990) 353–55Tales of Heichū by Susan Downing VideenVirginia Skord Waters- MN 45:3 (1990) 355–57Waiting for the Wind: Thirty-Six Poets of Japan’s Late Medieval Age by Steven D. CarterPhillip T. Harries
- MN 45:3 (1990) 357–60Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries by Donald KeeneMartin Collcutt
- MN 45:3 (1990) 360–63Kyōgoku Tamekane: Poetry and Politics in Late Kamakura Japan by Robert N. HueySteven D. Carter
- MN 45:3 (1990) 363–6518th Century Japan: Culture and Society by C. Andrew GerstlePaul Gordon Schalow
- MN 45:3 (1990) 365–66Postwar Japanese Women Writers: An Up-to-date Bibliography with Biographical Sketches by Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck, Søren EgerodRebecca Copeland
- MN 45:3 (1990) 367–69Hokusai: One Hundred Poets by Peter MorseSusan Matisoff
- MN 45:3 (1990) 369–72Le commerce extérieur du Japon: Des origines au XVIe siècle by Charlotte von VerschuerAndrew Edmund Goble
- MN 45:3 (1990) 372–75Remembering Paradise: Nativism and Nostalgia in Eighteenth-Century Japan by Peter NoscoBob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- MN 45:3 (1990) 375–76The Future Japan by Tokutomi Sohō, Vinh Sinh, Matsuzawa Hiroaki, Nicholas WickendenThomas R. H. Havens
- MN 45:3 (1990) 376–78The Clash of Interests: The Transformation of Japan in 1861–1881 in the Eyes of the Local Anglo-Saxon Press by Olavi K. Fält, Malcolm HicksHugh Cortazzi
- MN 45:3 (1990) 378–81Foreign Employees in Nineteenth Century Japan by Edward R. Beauchamp, Akira IriyeJames L. Huffman
- MN 45:3 (1990) 381–84Pearl Harbor Reexamined: Prologue to the Pacific War by Hilary Conroy, Harry WrayJohn Hunter Boyle
- MN 45:3 (1990) 384–86Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu by Miriam SilverbergWilliam Miles Fletcher III
- MN 45:3 (1990) 386–88Masterworks of the Nō Theater by Kenneth YasudaRebecca Teele
- MN 45:3 (1990) 388–89Butoh: Shades of Darkness by Jean Viala, Nourit Masson-SekineDavid G. Goodman
- MN 45:3 (1990) 389–90Verzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Japan-Schrifttums 1980–1987 by Susanne Formanek, Peter GetreuerNorbert R. Adami
MN 45:2 (1990) 229–31The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami: A Comparative Study of Greek Tragedy and Nō by Mae J. SmethurstMichiko Yusa- MN 45:2 (1990) 231–34Five Plays of Kishida Kunio by David G. Goodman, Richard McKinnon, J. Thomas RimerTed T. Takaya
- MN 45:2 (1990) 234–36Britain’s Encounter with Meiji Japan, 1868–1912 by Olive ChecklandJanet Hunter
- MN 45:2 (1990) 236–39Plain Words on the Pure Land Way: Sayings of the Wandering Monks of Medieval Japan. A Translation of Ichigon Hōdan by Dennis HirotaRobert E. Morrell
- MN 45:2 (1990) 239–42Shintō and the State, 1868–1988 by Helen HardacreDavid A. Titus
- MN 45:2 (1990) 242–45The Formation of Science in Japan: Building a Research Tradition by James R. BartholomewKenkichiro Koizumi
- MN 45:2 (1990) 245–48Ten Great Educators of Modern Japan: A Japanese Perspective by Benjamin C. DukeVictor Kobayashi
- MN 45:2 (1990) 248–51International Studies in Japan: A Bibliographic Guide. by Sadao Asada; Japan and the World, 1853–1952: A Bibliographic Guide to Japanese Scholarship in Foreign Relations by Sadao AsadaKimitada I. Miwa
MN 45:1 (1990) 95–98The Tale of the Heike by Helen Craig McCulloughCarol Hochstedler- MN 45:1 (1990) 98–100Divided Self: A Biography of Arishima Takeo by Leith MortonPaul Anderer
- MN 45:1 (1990) 100–103The Sting of Life: Four Contemporary Japanese Novelists by Van C. GesselChia-Ning Chang