Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
- MN 42:1 (1987) 110–11The Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale by Fanny Hagin MayerMargaret H. Childs
- MN 42:1 (1987) 112–14Hateruma: Socio-Religious Aspects of a South-Ryukyuan Island Culture by C. OuwehandRichard Pearson
MN 41:4 (1986) 489–91Narrative Voice in The Tale of Genji by Amanda Mayer StinchecumAileen Gatten- MN 41:4 (1986) 491–94Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court by Robert BorgenWilliam H. McCullough
- MN 41:4 (1986) 495–97Il Dio Incatenato: Honchō Shinsenden di Ōe no Masafusa. Storie di Santi e Immortali Taoisti nel Giappone dell’epoca Heian (794–1185) by Silvio CalzolariMichele Marra
- MN 41:4 (1986) 497–99Sōseki’s Development as a Novelist Until 1907: With Special Reference to the Genesis, Nature and Position in his Work of Kusa Makura by Alan TurneyEdwin McClellan
- MN 41:4 (1986) 499–502The Shōwa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories by Van C. Gessel, Tomone MatsumotoSarah M. Strong
- MN 41:4 (1986) 502–505Les Relations Officielles du Japon avec la Chine aux VIIIe et IXe Siècles by Charlotte von VerschuerRobert Borgen
- MN 41:4 (1986) 506–507Historia de Japam by Luis Frois, Josef Wicki —175Michael Cooper
- MN 41:4 (1986) 507–509Peasant Protest in Japan, 1590–1884 by Herbert P. BixConrad Totman
- MN 41:4 (1986) 509–511Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan by Stephen VlastosJames W. White
- MN 41:4 (1986) 512–513Zeami’s Style: The Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo by Thomas Blenham HareMark J. Nearman
- MN 41:4 (1986) 514–516After Apocalypse: Four Japanese Plays of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by David G. GoodmanTed T. Takaya
- MN 41:4 (1986) 516–518Sand and Pebbles (Shasekishū): The Tales of Mujū Ichien, a Voice for Pluralism in Kamakura Buddhism by Robert E. MorrellJean Moore
- MN 41:4 (1986) 518–521Kurozumikyō and the New Religions of Japan by Helen Hardacre; The Religion of Japan’s Korean Minority: The Preservation of Ethnic Identity by Helen HardacreJan Swyngedouw
- MN 41:4 (1986) 521–524Existential and Ontological Dimensions of Time in Heidegger and Dōgen by Steven HeineThomas P. Kasulis
MN 41:3 (1986) 345–48I racconti di Ise (Ise Monogatari) by Michele MarraValdo H. Viglielmo- MN 41:3 (1986) 349–51The Riverside Counselor’s Stories: Vernacular Fiction of Late Heian Japan by Robert L. BackusMark Morris
- MN 41:3 (1986) 352–53Zen Poems of the Five Mountains by David PollackJohn Stevens
- MN 41:3 (1986) 353–55Woman in the Crested Kimono: The Life of Shibue Io and Her Family Drawn from Mori Ōgai’s ‘Shibue Chūsai’ by Edwin McClellanYoshiyuki Nakai
- MN 41:3 (1986) 356–58Naomi by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, Anthony H. ChambersKen K. Ito
- MN 41:3 (1986) 359–60The Sting of Death’ and Other Stories by Shimao Toshio by Shimao Toshio, Kathryn SparlingVan C. Gessel
- MN 41:3 (1986) 361–64The Bakufu in Japanese History by Jeffrey P. Mass, William B. HauserCarl Steenstrup
- MN 41:3 (1986) 364–66Buddhism and the State in Sixteenth-Century Japan by Neil McMullinHerman Ooms
- MN 41:3 (1986) 366–69Dr Willis in Japan: British Medical Pioneer, 1862–1877 by Hugh Cortazzi; Mitford’s Japan: The Memoirs and Recollections, 1866–1906, of Algernon Bertram Mitford, the First Lord Redesdale by Hugh CortazziMichael Cooper
- MN 41:3 (1986) 369–71Five Political Leaders of Modern Japan: Itō Hirobumi, Ōkuma Shigenobu, Hara Takashi, Inukai Tsuyoshi, and Saionji Kimmochi by Yoshitake Oka, Andrew Fraser, Patricia MurrayJames L. Huffman
- MN 41:3 (1986) 372–74Fukuzawa Yukichi on Education: Selected Works by Eiichi KiyookaDavid A. Dilworth
- MN 41:3 (1986) 374–76What is Japanese Architecture? A Survey of Traditional Japanese Architecture with a List of Sites and a Map by Kazuo Nishi, Kazuo Hozumi, H. Mack HortonWilliam H. Coaldrake
MN 41:2 (1986) 239–41The History of the Japanese Written Language by Yaeko Sato HabeinDavid O. Mills- MN 41:2 (1986) 242–43Shikitei Sanba and the Comic Tradition in Edo Fiction by Robert W. LeutnerRichard Bowring
- MN 41:2 (1986) 243–45A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government by Nakae Chōmin, Nobuko Tsukui, Jeffrey HammondAnne Walthall
- MN 41:2 (1986) 245–47The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853–1955 by Andrew GordonChalmers Johnson