Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 44:1 (1989) 130–31Kipling’s Japan: Collected Writings by Hugh Cortazzi, George Webb; Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan by Robert A. RosenstoneHelen J. Ballhatchet- MN 44:1 (1989) 132–33Different People: Pictures of Some Japanese by Donald RichiePaul McCarthy
- MN 44:1 (1989) 133–35Inside the Robot Kingdom: Japan, Mechatronics, and the Coming Robotopia by Frederik L. SchodtWilliam W. Kelly
MN 43:4 (1988) 471–73Notes journalières de Fujiwara no Michinaga, ministre à la cour de Hei.an (995–1018): Traduction du Midō kanpakuki by Francine HérailAileen Gatten- MN 43:4 (1988) 473–75Childhood Years: A Memoir by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, Paul McCarthyPaul Anderer
- MN 43:4 (1988) 476–78Shijin: Autobiography of the Poet Kaneko Mitsuharu, 1895–1975 by A. R. Davis, A. D. Syrokomla-StefanowskaSarah M. Strong
- MN 43:4 (1988) 478–81The Marginal World of Ōe Kenzaburō: A Study in Themes and Techniques by Michiko N. WilsonPaul McCarthy
- MN 43:4 (1988) 481–83Daughters of the Moon: Wish, Will, and Social Constraint in Fiction by Modern Japanese Women by Victoria V. VernonRebecca Copeland
- MN 43:4 (1988) 483–86Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The Kaitokudō Merchant Academy of Osaka by Tetsuo NajitaRichard Rubinger
- MN 43:4 (1988) 486–88Enlightenment and Beyond: Political Economy Comes to Japan by Chuhei Sugiyama, Hiroshi MizutaByron K. Marshall
- MN 43:4 (1988) 488–91The Ashio Copper Mine Revolt (1907): A Case Study on the Changes of the Labor Relations in Japan at the Beginning of the XX Century by Paolo CalvettiF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 43:4 (1988) 491–94Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750–1920 by Thomas C. SmithWilliam B. Hauser
- MN 43:4 (1988) 494–95Themes and Theories in Modern Japanese History: Essays in Memory of Richard Storry by Sue Henny, Jean-Pierre LehmannJohn S. Brownlee
- MN 43:4 (1988) 495–97The State and the Mass Media in Japan, 1918–1945 by Gregory J. KaszaRichard H. Mitchell
- MN 43:4 (1988) 497–500Philosophy as Metanoetics by Tanabe Hajime, Takeuchi Yoshinori, Valdo H. Viglielmo, James W. HeisigDavid A. Dilworth
- MN 43:4 (1988) 500–502Esoteric Buddhist Painting by Hisatoyo Ishida, E. Dale SaundersMichael R. Saso
- MN 43:4 (1988) 502–504Paintings of the Lotus Sutra by Willa J. TanabeChristine M. E. Guth
- MN 43:4 (1988) 505–508Tall Mountains and Flowing Waters: The Arts of Uragami Gyokudō by Stephen AddissPaul Berry
- MN 43:4 (1988) 508–510The Making of a Modern Japanese Architecture: 1868 to the Present by David B. StewartKazuo Matsubayashi
- MN 43:4 (1988) 510–512Miwa, der Heilige Trank: Zur Geschichte und religiösen Bedeutung des alkoholischen Getränkes (sake) in Japan by Klaus AntoniFelicia Gressitt Bock
- MN 43:4 (1988) 512–517Health, Illness, and Medical Care in Japan: Culture and Social Dimensions by Edward Norbeck, Margaret Lock; Health and Illness in Changing Japanese Society by Kyoichi SonodaStephen R. Smith
- MN 43:4 (1988) 517–518The Japanese Through American Eyes by Sheila K. JohnsonTakie Sugiyama Lebra
- MN 43:4 (1988) 519–521Japanese Studies in the United States, Part 1: History and Present Condition by Marius B. JansenConrad Totman
MN 43:3 (1988) 363–64The Road to Komatsubara: A Classical Reading of the Renga Hyakuin by Steven D. CarterThomas Blenman Hare- MN 43:3 (1988) 365–66The Miner by Natsume Sōseki, Jay RubinAlan Turney
- MN 43:3 (1988) 367–68Histoire de la littérature populaire japonaise: Faits et perspectives (1900–1980) by Cécile SakaiJacques Bésineau
- MN 43:3 (1988) 368–70Early Kamakura Buddhism: A Minority Report by Robert E. MorrellMargaret H. Childs
- MN 43:3 (1988) 370–72A Japanese New Religion: Risshō Kōsei-Kai in a Mountain Hamlet by Stewart GuthrieRichard Fox Young
- MN 43:3 (1988) 372–74The Deshima Dagregisters. Their Original Tables of Contents, 2: 1690–1700 by A. C. J. VermeulenDerek Massarella
- MN 43:3 (1988) 374–76Musui’s Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai by Teruko CraigAnne Walthall
- MN 43:3 (1988) 376–77Fukuzawa Yukichi on Japanese Women: Selected Works by Eiichi KiyookaJoyce C. Lebra
- MN 43:3 (1988) 377–79Double Eagle and Rising Sun: The Russians and Japanese at Portsmouth in 1905 by Raymond A. EsthusRobert B. Valliant
- MN 43:3 (1988) 379–81Nan’yō: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885–1945 by Mark R. PeattieHenry Frei
- MN 43:3 (1988) 381–83Becoming Japanese: The World of the Pre-School Child by Joy HendryAnne E. Murase
- MN 43:3 (1988) 383–86The World of the Meiji Print: Impressions of a New Civilization by Julia Meech-PekarikHenry D. Smith II
- MN 43:3 (1988) 386–88Paris in Japan: The Japanese Encounter with European Painting by Shūji Takashina, J. Thomas Rimer, Gerald D. BolasFrederick Baekeland
- MN 43:3 (1988) 388–89The Gould Collection of Netsuke: Miniature Sculptures from Japan by Hugh WylieRaymond Bushell
MN 43:2 (1988) 235–36Das Kibyōshi ‘Happyakuman ryō kogane no kamibana’ von Santō Kyōden (1791): Ein Beitrag zur Edition japanischer Texte der Edo-Zeit by Santō Kyōden, Martina SchönbeinPeter F. Kornicki- MN 43:2 (1988) 236–39Literary Life in Tōkyō 1885–1915: Tayama Katai’s Memoirs (‘Thirty Years in Tōkyō’) by Kenneth G. HenshallWilliam E. Naff
- MN 43:2 (1988) 239–41To Live and To Write: Selections by Japanese Women Writers, 1913–1938 by Yukiko TanakaChieko Irie Mulhern
- MN 43:2 (1988) 241–43The Mito Ideology: Discourse, Reform, and Insurrection in Late Tokugawa Japan, 1790–1864 by J. Victor KoschmannPeter Nosco
- MN 43:2 (1988) 244–45Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer of Western Organizational Patterns to Meiji Japan by D. Eleanor WestneyAndrew Fraser
- MN 43:2 (1988) 245–47Individualism and Socialism: Kawai Eijirō’s Life and Thought (1891–1944) by Atsuko HiraiBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 43:2 (1988) 247–49Democratizing Japan: The Allied Occupation by Robert E. Ward, Sakamoto YoshikazuGrant K. Goodman
- MN 43:2 (1988) 250–52Remaking Japan: The American Occupation as New Deal by Theodore Cohen, Herbert PassinThomas W. Burkman
- MN 43:2 (1988) 253–55No Abode: The Record of Ippen by Dennis HirotaJames C. Dobbins
- MN 43:2 (1988) 256–58The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyDavid W. Plath
MN 43:1 (1988) 101–103The Tale of the Soga Brothers by Thomas J. CoganSusan Matisoff