Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 43:1 (1988) 104–106The Mother of Dreams and Other Short Stories: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction by Makoto UedaPhyllis I. Lyons- MN 43:1 (1988) 107–10A Play of Mirrors: Eight Major Poets of Modern Japan by Ōoka Makoto, Thomas FitzsimmonsRobert Epp
- MN 43:1 (1988) 110–12Victorians in Japan: In and around the Treaty Ports by Hugh Cortazzi; Japan in the Victorian Mind: A Study of Stereotyped Images of a Nation, 1850–80 by Toshio YokoyamaMichael Cooper
- MN 43:1 (1988) 112–15Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941 by Michael A. BarnhartAlvin D. Coox
- MN 43:1 (1988) 115–17Fire Across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan, 1965–1975 by Thomas R. H. HavensDavid J. Lu
- MN 43:1 (1988) 117–20Young Man Shinran: A Reappraisal of Shinran’s Life by Takamichi TakahatakeDennis Hirota
- MN 43:1 (1988) 120–22The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way: A Translation of Shinran’s Kyōgyōshinshō, Volume III by Yoshifumi UedaMinor Lee Rogers
- MN 43:1 (1988) 123–25Japanese Castles by Motoo Hinago, William H. CoaldrakeBruce A. Coats
- MN 43:1 (1988) 125–26Family Change and the Life Course in Japan by Susan Orpett LongAnne E. Imamura
- MN 43:1 (1988) 127–30Urban Japanese Housewives: At Home and in the Community by Anne E. Imamura; The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children by Merry WhiteWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 43:1 (1988) 130–31Country Textiles of Japan: The Art of Tsutsugaki by Reiko Mochinaga BrandonMarie Lyman
MN 42:4 (1987) 495–98Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs, 1570–1680 by Herman OomsSamuel Hideo Yamashita- MN 42:4 (1987) 499–501Buddhism and Christianity in Japan: From Conflict to Dialogue, 1854–1899 by Notto R. ThelleF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 42:4 (1987) 501–502Japan and Britain at the Crossroads, 1939–1941: A Study in the Dilemmas of Japanese Diplomacy by Kyozo SatoIan Nish
- MN 42:4 (1987) 502–505Law and the State in Traditional East Asia: Six Studies on the Sources of East Asian Law by Brian E. McKnightJ. Mark Ramseyer
- MN 42:4 (1987) 505–507The Logic of Unity: The Discovery of Zero and Emptiness in Prajñāpāramitā Thought by Hōsaku Matsuo, Kenneth K. InadaMichiko Yusa
- MN 42:4 (1987) 507–508Minka: Traditional Houses of Rural Japan by Chūji Kawashima, Lynne E. RiggsYoshihiro Takishita
- MN 42:4 (1987) 509–510Roberts’ Guide to Japanese Museums of Art and Archaeology by Laurance P. RobertsMichael Cooper
- MN 42:4 (1987) 511–516CorrespondenceAnn Waswo and Richard J. Smethurst
MN 42:3 (1987) 357–58Japanische Parodie im 17. Jahrhundert: Studien zum Nise-Monogatari by Günther WenckPeter F. Kornicki- MN 42:3 (1987) 359–62Epidemics and Mortality in Early Modern Japan by Ann Bowman JannettaWilliam Wayne Farris
- MN 42:3 (1987) 362–63Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan: The New Theses of 1825 by Bob Tadashi WakabayashiGrant K. Goodman
- MN 42:3 (1987) 364–66Agricultural Development and Tenancy Disputes in Japan, 1870 to 1940 by Richard J. SmethurstAnn Waswo
- MN 42:3 (1987) 367–69Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan by Germaine A. HostonThomas R. H. Havens
- MN 42:3 (1987) 369–71Tokutomi Sohō (1863–1957): The Later Career by Sinh VinhJames L. Huffman
- MN 42:3 (1987) 371–74Einführung in das Studium der japanischen Geschichte by Hans Adalbert DettmerCarl Steenstrup
- MN 42:3 (1987) 375–77Images of Japanese Society: A Study in the Structure of Social Reality by Ross Mouer, Yoshio SugimotoMiriam Silverberg
- MN 42:3 (1987) 377–79Educational Policies in Crisis: Japanese and American Perspectives by William K. Cummings, Edward R. Beauchamp, Shogo Ichikawa, Victor N. Kobayashi, Morikazu UshiogiH. J. Jones
- MN 42:3 (1987) 379–81Shōbōgenzō: Zen Essays by Dōgen by Thomas ClearyRuben L. F. Habito
- MN 42:3 (1987) 381–83Death Was His Kōan: The Samurai-Zen of Suzuki Shōsan by Winston L. KingPaul B. Watt
- MN 42:3 (1987) 384–86A Zen Life: D. T. Suzuki Remembered by Masao Abe, Francis HaarJohn C. Maraldo
- MN 42:3 (1987) 386–88The Great Eastern Temple: Treasures of Japanese Buddhist Art from Tōdai-Ji by Yutaka Mino, John M. Rosenfield, William H. Coaldrake, Samuel C. Morse, Christine M. E. GuthWilla Jane Tanabe
- MN 42:3 (1987) 388–90Wenceslau de Moraes (1854–1929) und Japan: Eine Untersuchung zur Selbstdarstellung in der exotischen Literatur des Fin de Siècle in Portugal by Helmut FeldmannEngelbert Jorissen
MN 42:2 (1987) 231–32Ikkyū and the Crazy Cloud Anthology: A Zen Poet of Medieval Japan by Sonja ArntzenJames H. Sanford- MN 42:2 (1987) 232–35The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature by Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, Robert E. MorrellEleanor Kerkham
- MN 42:2 (1987) 236–38The Fracture of Meaning: Japan’s Synthesis of China from the Eighth through the Eighteenth Centuries by David PollackRobert E. Morrell
- MN 42:2 (1987) 239–40Japanese History: A Guide to Survey Histories, Part II: Literature by Naomi FukudaNobuko Miyama Ochner
- MN 42:2 (1987) 240–42Japan in Transition: From Tokugawa to Meiji by Marius B. Jansen, Gilbert RozmanRoger Bowen
- MN 42:2 (1987) 243–45Liberalism in Modern Japan: Ishibashi Tanzan and His Teachers, 1905–1960 by Sharon H. NoltePeter Duus
- MN 42:2 (1987) 245–47Six Hidden Views of Japanese Music by William P. MalmBritten Dean
- MN 42:2 (1987) 248–50Windows on the Japanese Past: Studies in Archaeology and Prehistory by Richard J. Pearson, Gina Lee Barnes, Karl L. HuttererCharles T. Keally
- MN 42:2 (1987) 251–52Snow Country Tales: Life in the Other Japan by Suzuki Bokushi, Jeffrey Hunter, Rose Lesser, Anne WalthallMichael Cooper
MN 42:1 (1987) 89–91Principles of Classical Japanese Literature by Earl MinerThomas H. Rohlich- MN 42:1 (1987) 92–97Social Protest and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Japan by Anne Walthall; Deference and Defiance in Nineteenth-Century Japan by William W. KellyJames L. McClain
- MN 42:1 (1987) 98–100The Diary of Kido Takayoshi, Volume 3, 1874–1877 by Sidney DeVere Brown, Akiko HirotaMarius B. Jansen
- MN 42:1 (1987) 101–103Circles of Fantasy: Convention in the Plays of Chikamatsu by C. Andrew GerstleStanleigh H. Jones
- MN 42:1 (1987) 103–106The Way of Acting: The Theatre Writings of Tadashi Suzuki by J. Thomas RimerLaurence R. Kominz
- MN 42:1 (1987) 107–10The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of Kūkai and Dōgen by David Edward ShanerJames H. Sanford