Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 39:1 (1984) 108–10Zen Action, Zen Person by T. P. KasulisMichiko Yusa- MN 39:1 (1984) 111–13Tausend Kirschbäume, Yoshitsune: Ein klassisches Stück des japanischen Theaters der Edozeit. Studie, Übersetzung, Kommentar by Eduard KlopfensteinDetlef Schauwecker
- MN 39:1 (1984) 113–14The Griffis Collection of Japanese Books: An Annotated Bibliography by Diane E. PerushekEdward R. Beauchamp
MN 38:4 (1983) 429–31A Tale of Eleventh-Century Japan: Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari by Thomas H. RohlichCarol Hochstedler- MN 38:4 (1983) 431–33Ueda Akinari by Blake Morgan YoungAnthony H. Chambers
- MN 38:4 (1983) 434–36The Essence of the Novel by Tsubouchi Shōyō, Nanette TwineRobert Rolf
- MN 38:4 (1983) 436–37Pagoda, Skull and Sumurai: Three Stories by Kōda Rohan by Chieko Irie MulhernGretchen Evans
- MN 38:4 (1983) 437–40Approaches to the Modern Japanese Short Story by Thomas E. Swann, Kinya TsurutaVan C. Gessel
- MN 38:4 (1983) 440–42One Hundred Frogs: From Rengu to Haiku in English by Hiroaki SatoEri F. Yasuhara
- MN 38:4 (1983) 442–45This Kind of Woman: Ten Stories by Japanese Women Writers, 1960–1976 by Yukiko Tanaka, Elizabeth Hanson; Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers by Noriko Mizuta Lippit, Kyoko Iriye SeldenYoko McClain
- MN 38:4 (1983) 445–46Chronicle of My Mother by Yasushi Inoue, Jean Oda MoyMarian Ury
- MN 38:4 (1983) 446–50Historia de Japam. by Luis Fróis, José Wicki; Francis Xavier: His Life, His Times by Georg Schurhammer, M. Joseph CostelloeMichael Cooper
- MN 38:4 (1983) 451–53Hideyoshi by Mary Elizabeth BerryHarold Bolitho
- MN 38:4 (1983) 454–58Private Academies of Tokugawa Japan by Richard RubingerRobert M. Spaulding
- MN 38:4 (1983) 458–59The Revolutionary Origins of Modern Japan by Thomas M. HuberHilary Conroy
- MN 38:4 (1983) 460–62Konoe Fumimaro: A Political Biography by Yoshitake Oka, Shumpei Okamoto, Patricia MurrayBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 38:4 (1983) 462–65Emperor Hirohito and His Chief Aide-de-Camp: The Honjō Diary, 1933–36 by Mikiso HaneDavid A. Titus
- MN 38:4 (1983) 465–66Irrigation Management in Japan: A Critical Review of Japanese Social Science Research by William W. Kelly; Water Control in Tokugawa Japan: Irrigation Organization in a Japanese River Basin, 1600–1870 by William W. KellyDavid H. Kornhauser
- MN 38:4 (1983) 467–69Das ‘Selbst’ in Mahāyāna-Buddhismus in Japanischer Sicht und die ‘Person’ im Christentum im Licht des Neuen Testaments by Masumi ShimizuJan Van Bragt
- MN 38:4 (1983) 469–71Refining Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment by Zen Master Dōgen, Kōshō Uchiyama, Thomas WrightJohn C. Maraldo
- MN 38:4 (1983) 472–73Zum Verhältnis von Staat und Shinto im heutigen Japan: Eine Materialsammlung by Ernst LokowandtFelix Moos
- MN 38:4 (1983) 473–74The New Religions of Japan: A Bibliography of Western-Language Materials by H. Byron EarhartHelen Hardacre
- MN 38:4 (1983) 474–77Japanese Lacquer Art: Modern Masterpieces by The National Museum of Modern Art, Richard L. GageAnn Yonemura
- MN 38:4 (1983) 477–79Essays on Japanese Art Presented to Jack Hillier by Matthi ForrerCal French
- MN 38:4 (1983) 479–81Japan-Handbuch by Horst Hammitzsch, Lydia Brüll, Ulrich GochWerner Schaumann
MN 38:3 (1983) 321–23The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot by Junichirō Tanizaki, Anthony H. ChambersPaul McCarthy- MN 38:3 (1983) 324–25Masaoka Shiki by Janine BeichmanJames R. Morita
- MN 38:3 (1983) 326–28Kinoshita Yūji by Robert EppSteve Rabson
- MN 38:3 (1983) 329–30Rabbits, Crabs, Etc.: Stories by Japanese Women by Phyllis BirnbaumChieko Irie Mulhern
- MN 38:3 (1983) 331–33The Genetic Relationship of the Ainu Language by James PatrieHans A. Dettmer
- MN 38:3 (1983) 333–38Japan’s Modern Myth: The Language and Beyond by Roy Andrew MillerLouis Allen
- MN 38:3 (1983) 338–41Kanazawa: A Seventeenth-Century Japanese Castle Town by James L. McClainRonald P. Toby
- MN 38:3 (1983) 342–43Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors by William Scott WilsonCarl Steenstrup
- MN 38:3 (1983) 344–46Japan Examined: Perspectives on Modern Japanese History by Harry Wray, Hilary ConroyRichard H. Mitchell
- MN 38:3 (1983) 346–49Conflict in Modern Japanese History: The Neglected Tradition by Tetsuo Najita, J. Victor KoschmannMiles Fletcher
- MN 38:3 (1983) 349–51Occupation Diplomacy: Britain, the United States and Japan, 1945–1952 by Roger BuckleyMasahiro Hosoya
- MN 38:3 (1983) 351–54Artist and Patron in Postwar Japan: Dance, Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts, 1955–1980 by Thomas R. H. HavensEric J. Gangloff
- MN 38:3 (1983) 354–55Enkū: Sculptor of a Hundred Thousand Buddhas by Kazuaki TanahashiDonald F. McCallum
- MN 38:3 (1983) 356–57Survey of Japanese Collections in the United States, 1979–1980 by Naomi FukudaMaureen H. Donovan
MN 38:2 (1983) 207–209Konjaku Monogatari-shū by W. Michael KelseySusan Downing Videen- MN 38:2 (1983) 209–10Ukifune: Love in The Tale of Genji by Andrew PekarikRichard Bowring
- MN 38:2 (1983) 211–12The Little Treasury of One Hundred People, One Poem Each by Fujiwara no Sadaie, Tom GaltPhillip T. Harries
- MN 38:2 (1983) 213–14The Formation of the Early Meiji Legal Order: The Japanese Code of 1871 and Its Chinese Foundation by Paul Heng-chao Ch’enJames B. Leavell
- MN 38:2 (1983) 214–16Germany and the Far Eastern Crisis, 1931–1938: A Study in Diplomacy and Ideology by John P. FoxGerhard Krebs
- MN 38:2 (1983) 216–19The Musical Structure of Nō by Akira Tamba, Patricia MatoréMark J. Nearman
- MN 38:2 (1983) 220Doctoral Dissertations on Japan and Korea, 1969–1979: An Annotated Bibliography of Studies in Western Languages by Frank Joseph ShulmanMichael Cooper
MN 38:1 (1983) 91–93A Warbler’s Song in the Dusk: The Life and Work of Ōtomo Yakamochi (718–785) by Paula DoeThomas Blenman Hare- MN 38:1 (1983) 93–94Blüten im Wind: Essays und Skizzen der japanischen Gegenwart by Barbara Yoshida-KrafftBettina Klein