Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 40:4 (1985) 431–33Other Worlds: Arishima Takeo and the Bounds of Modern Japanese Fiction by Paul AndererVan C. Gessel- MN 40:4 (1985) 433–35The Reform of Fiction in Meiji Japan by Peter F. KornickiJanet A. Walker
- MN 40:4 (1985) 436–38Writers and Society in Modern Japan by Irena PowellNanette Twine
- MN 40:4 (1985) 438–40The Saga of Dazai Osamu: A Critical Study with Translations by Phyllis I. Lyons; Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp by James WesterhovenAmy Vladeck Heinrich
- MN 40:4 (1985) 440–42Japan in Transition: Thought and Action in the Meiji Era, 1868–1912 by Hilary Conroy, Sandra T. W. Davis, Wayne PattersonM. William Steele
- MN 40:4 (1985) 442–46American Samurai: Captain L. L. Janes and Japan by F. G. NotehelferJames L. Huffman
- MN 40:4 (1985) 446–47Japan Erupts: The London Naval Conference and the Manchurian Incident, 1928–1932 by James W. MorleyIan Nish
- MN 40:4 (1985) 447–49Facism, Miltarism or Japanism? The Interpretation of the Crisis Years of 1930–1941 in the Japanese English-Language Press by Olavi K. Fält, Malcolm HicksRichard H. Mitchell
- MN 40:4 (1985) 449–51Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History by Janet E. HunterCarol Gluck
- MN 40:4 (1985) 452–53Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy by Takeda Izumo, Stanleigh JonesLaurence R. Kominz
- MN 40:4 (1985) 454–56The Early Japanese Labor Movement: Labor and Politics in a Developing Society by Robert A. ScalapinoStephen S. Large
- MN 40:4 (1985) 456–57The Origins of Japan’s Modern Forests: The Case of Akita by Conrad TotmanRobert J. Smith
- MN 40:4 (1985) 457–59Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan by Robert C. MarshallDavid W. Plath
- MN 40:4 (1985) 459–62Kikkoman: Company, Clan, and Community by W. Mark FruinShinya Sugiyama
- MN 40:4 (1985) 462–63The World of Kameda Bōsai: The Calligraphy, Poetry, Painting and Artistic Circle of a Japanese Literatus by Stephen AddissBettina Klein
- MN 40:4 (1985) 464–66Kosode: 16th–19th Century Textiles from the Nomura Collection by Amanda Stinchecum, Monica Bethe, Margot PaulMarie Lyman
MN 40:3 (1985) 349–51Hitomaro and the Birth of Japanese Lyricism by Ian Hideo LevyPhillip T. Harries- MN 40:3 (1985) 352–55Kokinshū: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern by Laurel Rasplica Rodd, Mary Catherine HenkeniusThomas H. Rohlich
- MN 40:3 (1985) 355–60A History of Japanese Literature. Volume One: The Archaic and Ancient Ages by Jin’ichi Konishi, Aileen Gatten, Nicholas Teele, Earl MinerD. E. Mills
- MN 40:3 (1985) 360–62Audience and Actors: A Study of Their Interaction in Japanese Traditional Theatre by Jacob RazJames R. Brandon
- MN 40:3 (1985) 363–65Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneySusan Orpett Long
- MN 40:3 (1985) 365–67Against the State: Politics and Social Protest in Japan by David Apter, Nagayo SawaJ. Victor Koschmann
- MN 40:3 (1985) 367–69Ancient Tales in Modern Japan: An Anthology of Japanese Folk Tales by Fanny Hagin MayerChieko Irie Mulhern
- MN 40:3 (1985) 369–71Die frühe Nietzsche-Rezeption in Japan (1893–1903): Ein Beitrag zur Individualismusproblematik im Modernisierungsprozess by Hans-Joachim BeckerJohn C. Maraldo
- MN 40:3 (1985) 372–73Technology and Agricultural Development in Pre-War Japan by Penelope FrancksWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 40:3 (1985) 374–75101 Favorite Songs Taught in Japanese Schools by Ichiro NakanoUry Eppstein
MN 40:2 (1985) 221–23Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture by Peter NoscoBob Tadashi Wakabayashi- MN 40:2 (1985) 223–24Ogyū Sorai’s Journey to Kai in 1706, with a Translation of the Kyōchūkikō by Olof G. LidinRonald P. Toby
- MN 40:2 (1985) 225–27Japan’s Local Pragmatists: The Transition from Bakumatsu to Meiji in the Kawasaki Region by Neil L. WatersD. Eleanor Westney
- MN 40:2 (1985) 227–30The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895–1945 by Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. PeattieC. I. Eugene Kim
- MN 40:2 (1985) 231–32The China Quagmire: Japan’s Expansion on the Asian Continent, 1933–1941 by James William MorleyLinda Grove
- MN 40:2 (1985) 233–34Japans Deutschlandpolitik 1935–1941: Eine Studie zur Vorgeschichte des Pazifischen Krieges by Gerhard KrebsFrank W. Iklé
- MN 40:2 (1985) 234–35Japanese History: A Guide to Survey Histories, Part I: By Period by Naomi FukudaM. William Steele
- MN 40:2 (1985) 235–38Heritage of Endurance: Family Patterns and Delinquency Formation in Urban Japan by Hiroshi Wagatsuma, George A. De VosRonald Dore
- MN 40:2 (1985) 238–41Conflict in Japan by Ellis S. Krauss, Thomas P. Rohlen, Patricia G. SteinhoffSusan B. Hanley
- MN 40:2 (1985) 241–43Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment by Takie Sugiyama LebraH. J. Jones
- MN 40:2 (1985) 243–44Old Age in Japan: An Annotated Bibliography of Western-Language Materials by Sepp Linhart, Fleur WössMichael Cooper
- MN 40:2 (1985) 245–46Facing Two Ways: The Story of My Life by Baroness Shidzue Ishimoto, Barbara MolonyTakie Sugiyama Lebra
- MN 40:2 (1985) 246–47Smaller Is Better: Japan’s Mastery of the Miniature by O-Young Lee, Robert N. HueyJames Abrams
- MN 40:2 (1985) 247–48Kabuki, Holzschnitt, Japonismus: Japonica in der Theatersammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek by Thomas Leims, Ilse Chlan, Leopoldine PavlicekDetlef Schauwecker
- MN 40:2 (1985) 248–49Shogun: The Shogun Age Exhibition by Shogun Age Exhibition CommitteeChristine Guth Kanda
- MN 40:2 (1985) 250–51Ansätze modernen Denkens in den Religionen Japans by Hajime Nakamura; Beihefte der Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte by Siegfried Schultz, Anke Schomaker-HuettArcadio Schwade
- MN 40:2 (1985) 251–53Miraculous Tales of the Lotus Sutra from Ancient Japan: The Dainihonkoku Hokekyōkenki of Priest Chingen by Yoshiko K. DykstraMargaret H. Childs
- MN 40:2 (1985) 253–55A Dictionary of Japanese Buddhist Terms by Hisao Inagaki, P. G. O’NeillGeorge J. Tanabe
MN 40:1 (1985) 107–10Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era by Donald KeeneMakoto Ueda- MN 40:1 (1985) 110–13Tanrokubon: Rare Books of Seventeenth Century Japan by Kogorō Yoshida, Ryūshin Matsumoto, Mark A. HarbisonK. B. Gardner
- MN 40:1 (1985) 113–15Retreat from Reform: Patterns of Political Behavior in Interwar Japan by Sharon MinichielloBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 40:1 (1985) 115–18Dialektik der absoluten Vemittlung: Hajime Tanabes Religionsphilosophie als Beitrag zum ‘Wettstreit der Liebe’ zwischen Buddhismus und Christentum by Johannes LaubeJames W. Heisig