Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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- 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