Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 44:2 (1989) 239–44Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema by David Bordwell; Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema by David DesserKeiko McDonald- MN 44:2 (1989) 244–45The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei by John StevensHarry Byron Earhart
- MN 44:2 (1989) 246–47Das Ende der Exotik: Zur japanischen Kultur und Gesellschaft der Gegenwart by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitFlorian Coulmas
- MN 44:2 (1989) 247–50Intuition and Reflection in Self-consciousness by Nishida Kitarō, Valdo H. Viglielmo, Takeuchi Yoshinori, Joseph S. O’LearyDavid A. Dilworth
- MN 44:2 (1989) 251–53Kiyochika: Artist of Meiji Japan by Henry D. Smith IIFrederick Baekeland
- MN 44:2 (1989) 253–56The Art of the Japanese Book by Jack HillierPeter F. Kornicki
- MN 44:2 (1989) 256–58An Introduction to Japanese Kanbun by Akira Komai, Thomas H. RohlichSydney Crawcour
- MN 44:2 (1989) 258–59Contemporary European Writing on Japan: Scholarly Views from Eastern & Western Europe by Ian NishMichael Cooper
MN 44:1 (1989) 107–109Nature and Identity in Canadian and Japanese Literature by Kinya Tsuruta, Theodore GoossenSandra Buckley- MN 44:1 (1989) 109–13Contemporary Japanese Literature by Ivar IvaskJohn Whittier Treat
- MN 44:1 (1989) 113–15Palm of the Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, Lane Dunlop, J. Martin HolmanSusan J. Napier
- MN 44:1 (1989) 115–19Pools of Water, Pillars of Fire: The Literature of Ibuse Masuji by John Whittier TreatAnthony V. Liman
- MN 44:1 (1989) 119–22The State and Labor in Modern Japan by Sheldon GaronKoji Taira
- MN 44:1 (1989) 122–24Soviet Policy Towards Japan: An Analysis of Trends in the 1970s and 1980s by Myles L. C. RobertsonJohn J. Stephan
- MN 44:1 (1989) 124–28Educational Thought and Ideology in Modern Japan: State Authority and Intellectual Freedom by Teruhisa Horio, Steven Platzer; Educational Achievement in Japan: Lessons for the West by Richard LynnCatherine Lewis
- MN 44:1 (1989) 128–29Japanese Women Artists, 1600–1900. by Patricia FisterBettina Klein
- 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