Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
- MN 41:2 (1986) 248–50Populist Nationalism in Prewar Japan: A Biography of Nakano Seigō by Leslie Russell OatesMiles Fletcher
- MN 41:2 (1986) 250–52Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 by Alvin D. CooxJohn J. Stephan
- MN 41:2 (1986) 252–55Lost Innocence: Folk Craft Potters of Onta, Japan by Brian MoeranRupert Faulkner
- MN 41:2 (1986) 255–57Zen and Western Thought by Masao Abe, William R. LaFleurMichiko Yusa
- MN 41:2 (1986) 258–59Dōgen Studies by William R. LaFleurMorris J. Augustine
- MN 41:2 (1986) 259–60Chelovek i mir v yaponskoi kulture [Man and the World in Japanese Culture] by T. P. GrigoryevaHerbert Plutschow
MN 41:1 (1986) 107–109Classical Learning and Taoist Practices in Early Japan by Felicia G. BockMichiko Yamaguchi Aoki- MN 41:1 (1986) 109–12Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645–900 by William Wayne FarrisDana Morris
- MN 41:1 (1986) 112–14Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period by Carol GluckSidney DeVere Brown
- MN 41:1 (1986) 114–17The Culture of the Meiji Period by Irokawa Daikichi, Marius B. JansenByron K. Marshall
- MN 41:1 (1986) 117–19The Diary of Kido Takayoshi, Volume II: 1871–1874 by Sidney DeVere Brown, Akiko HirotaRobert M. Spaulding
- MN 41:1 (1986) 119–21International Perspectives on Yanagita Kunio and Japanese Folklore Studies by J. Victor Koschmann, Ōiwa Keibō, Yamashita ShinjiPeter Knecht
- MN 41:1 (1986) 122–24Nihon Bunka no Kakureta Kata by Takeda KiyokoSinh Vinh
- MN 41:1 (1986) 124–25Backstage at Bunraku: A Behind-the-Scences Look at Japan’s Traditional Puppet Theatre by Barbara C. AdachiKaren Brazell
MN 40:4 (1985) 427–28Le Chrysanthème solitaire by Jacqueline Pigeot, Keiko KosugiJacques Bésineau- MN 40:4 (1985) 428–30Saigyō-Rezeption: Das von Saigyō verkörperte Eremiten-Ideal in der japanischen Literaturgeschichte by Keiko Hartwieg-HiratsukaMarian Ury