Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
- MN 40:1 (1985) 118–20Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Reiyūkai Kyōdan by Helen HardacreRobert Ellwood
- MN 40:1 (1985) 120–22Japanese Papermaking: Tradition, Tools, and Techniques by Timothy BarrettSukey Hughes
- MN 40:1 (1985) 122–26Saibara: Japanese Court Songs of the Heian Period by Elizabeth J. MarkhamSteven G. Nelson
MN 39:4 (1984) 455–57The Changelings: A Classical Japanese Court Tale by Rosette F. WilligThomas J. Harper- MN 39:4 (1984) 457–59Dazai Osamu: Selected Stories and Sketches by James O’BrienDavid J. Brudnoy
- MN 39:4 (1984) 459–63State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu by Ronald P. TobyJohn Whitney Hall
- MN 39:4 (1984) 463–64History in the Service of the Japanese Nation by John S. BrownleeGrant K. Goodman
- MN 39:4 (1984) 464–66The Justice of the Western Consular Courts in Nineteenth Century Japan by Richard T. ChangJ. E. Hoare
- MN 39:4 (1984) 467–68Kodō Zuroku: Illustrated Book on the Smelting of Copper by Masuda Tsuna, Cyril Stanley SmithJames R. Bartholomew
- MN 39:4 (1984) 468–70Politics and Sinology: The Case of Naitō Konan (1866–1934) by Joshua A. FogelSharon H. Nolte
- MN 39:4 (1984) 471–72Japanese Society: Tradition, Self and the Social Order by Robert J. SmithDavid W. Plath
- MN 39:4 (1984) 472–74Freedom of Expression in Japan: A Study in Comparative Law, Politics, and Society by Lawrence Ward BeerDavid Wessels
- MN 39:4 (1984) 474–76On the Art of Nō Drama: The Major Treatises of Zeami by J. Thomas Rimer, Yamazaki MasakazuP. G. O'Neill
- MN 39:4 (1984) 476–80Iconography of The Tale of Genji: Genji Monogatari Ekotoba by Miyeko MuraseJulia Meech-Pekarik
- MN 39:4 (1984) 481–84Passages on the Pure Land Way: A Translation of Shinran’s Jōdo monrui jushō by Yoshifumi Ueda; The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way. A Translation of Shinran’s Kyōgyōshinshō, Volume I by Yoshifumi UedaThomas P. Kasulis
- MN 39:4 (1984) 484–86A Dictionary of Buddhist Terms and Concepts by Nichiren Shōshū International CenterGeorge J. Tanabe
MN 39:3 (1984) 351–52Grass Hill: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Gensei by Burton WatsonMartin Collcutt- MN 39:3 (1984) 353–55A History of Japanese Literature: The Modern Years by Shuichi Kato, Don SandersonJames A. O'Brien
- MN 39:3 (1984) 355–58Injurious to Public Morals: Writers and the Meiji State by Jay RubinJames L. Huffman
- MN 39:3 (1984) 358–61The Diary of Kido Takayoshi. Volume One by Sidney DeVere Brown, Akiko HirotaThomas M. Huber
- MN 39:3 (1984) 361–63Il Giappone e la politica estera italiana 1935–41 by Valdo FerrettiGerhard Krebs
- MN 39:3 (1984) 364Il Giappone nel dilemma fra tradizione e modernità: La figura e l’opera di Yanagita Kunio by Francesco DentoniGiuseppe Bartoli
- MN 39:3 (1984) 365–66Sakaki Hyakusen and Early Nanga Painting by James CahillLothar Ledderose
- MN 39:3 (1984) 366–68The Roof in Japanese Buddhist Architecture by Mary Neighbour ParentWilliam H. Coaldrake
- MN 39:3 (1984) 368–70Dance in the Nō Theater by Monica Bethe, Karen Brazell. Volume One, ‘Dance Analysis’; Volume Two, ‘Plays and Scores’; Volume Three, ‘Dance Patterns’Scott Johnson
MN 39:2 (1984) 191–95The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan by William R. LaFleurSusan Matisoff- MN 39:2 (1984) 195–98A History of Japanese Literature, 2: The Years of Isolation by Shuichi Kato, Don SandersonRobert W. Leutner
- MN 39:2 (1984) 198–200Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature by Makoto UedaJ. Thomas Rimer
- MN 39:2 (1984) 200–201La Littérature japonaise by Jacqueline Pigeot, Jean-Jacques TschudinJacques Bésineau
- MN 39:2 (1984) 201–203Japanese Folk Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide by Joanne P. AlgarinChieko Irie Mulhern
- MN 39:2 (1984) 203–205Ikki by Katsumata ShizuoAnne Walthall
- MN 39:2 (1984) 206–10Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake by Edward SeidenstickerHenry D. Smith II