Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 38:1 (1983) 95–97Peasants, Rebels, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan by Mikiso HaneD. Eleanor Westney- MN 38:1 (1983) 97–99My Thirty-Three Years’ Dream: The Autobiography of Miyazaki Tōten by Etō Shinkichi, Marius B. JansenPeter Duus
- MN 38:1 (1983) 99–101Anglo-Japanese Alienation, 1919–1952: Papers of the Anglo-Japanese Conference on the History of the Second World War by Ian NishDerek Massarella
- MN 38:1 (1983) 102–104Unconditional Democracy: Education and Politics in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952 by Toshio NishiHarry (Harold J.) Wray
- MN 38:1 (1983) 104–106Zen-Man Ikkyū by James H. SanfordRobert E. Morrell
- MN 38:1 (1983) 107–108Culture and Religion in Japanese-American Relations: Essays on Uchimura Kanzō, 1861–1930 by Ray A. MooreWilbur M. Fridell
- MN 38:1 (1983) 109–13Seiyōjin no Kabuki Hakken by Nakamura Tetsurō; Sukeroku’s Double Identity: The Dramatic Structure of Edo Kabuki by Barbara E. Thornbury; Chūshingura: Studies in Kabuki and the Puppet Theater by James R. BrandonLeonard C. Pronko
MN 37:4 (1982) 531–535Court and Bakufu in Japan: Essays in Kamakura History by Jeffrey P. MassCarl Steenstrup- MN 37:4 (1982) 535–536Japan before Perry: A Short History by Conrad TotmanMarius B. Jansen
- MN 37:4 (1982) 536–537Kenkenroku: A Diplomatic Record of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894–1895 by Mutsu Munemitsu, Gordon Mark BergerLinda Grove
- MN 37:4 (1982) 538–541The Self-Made Man in Meiji Japanese Thought: From Samurai to Salary Man by Earl H. KinmonthAlbert M. Craig
- MN 37:4 (1982) 541–543Ōsugi Sakae, Anarchist in Taishō Japan: The Creativity of the Ego by Thomas A. StanleyStephen S. Large
- MN 37:4 (1982) 543–545Organized Workers and Socialist Politics in Interwar Japan by Stephen S. LargeGeorge Oakley Totten III
- MN 37:4 (1982) 545–547Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan by Ben-Ami ShillonyMark R. Peattie
- MN 37:4 (1982) 548–550A Diplomat’s Wife in Japan: Sketches at the Turn of the Century by Mary Crawford Fraser, Hugh CortazziMichael Cooper
- MN 37:4 (1982) 550–551Winds from the East: A Study in the Art of Manet, Degas, Monet and Whistler, 1856–86 by Jacques DufwaDavid Waterhouse
- MN 37:4 (1982) 551–554The Traditional Theater of Japan by Yoshinobu Inoura, Toshio KawatakeFrank T. Motofuji
- MN 37:4 (1982) 554–555Japanese Stencil Dyeing: Paste-Resist Techniques by Eisha Nakano, Barbara B. StephanFrances L. Blakemore
MN 37:3 (1982) 403–405The Quilt and Other Stories by Tayama Katai by Kenneth G. HenshallPhyllis I. Lyons- MN 37:3 (1982) 405–408Prehistory of Japan by C. Melvin Aikens, Takayasu HiguchiCharles T. Keally
- MN 37:3 (1982) 408–10Koreans in Japan: Ethnic Conflict and Accommodation by Changsoo Lee, George DeVosRichard H. Mitchell
- MN 37:3 (1982) 411–12Political Women in Japan: The Search for a Place in Political Life by Susan J. PharrH. J. Jones
MN 37:2 (1982) 257–59In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyō, A Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan by Robert Lyons DanlyWilliam E. Naff- MN 37:2 (1982) 259–60The Monkey’s Straw Raincoat and Other Poetry of the Bashō School by Earl Miner, Hiroko OdagiriMakoto Ueda
- MN 37:2 (1982) 261A Zen Forest: Sayings of the Masters by Sōiku ShigematsuRobert Epp
- MN 37:2 (1982) 263–65Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan by Margaret A. McKeanGary D. Allinson
- MN 37:2 (1982) 265–67Diary Kept by the Head of the English Factory in Japan: Diary of Richard Cocks, 1615–1622 by Richard Cocks, The Historiographical InstituteMichael Cooper
- MN 37:2 (1982) 261–63As the Japanese See It: Past and Present by Michiko Y. Aoki, Margaret B. DardessJames Abrams
MN 37:1 (1982) 123–26The Zen Poems of Ryōkan by Nobuyuki YuasaBurton Watson- MN 37:1 (1982) 126–28Four Japanese Travel Diaries of the Middle Ages by Herbert Plutschow, Hideichi FukudaBlake Morgan Young
- MN 37:1 (1982) 129–30Some Final Words of Advice by Saikaku Ihara, Peter NoscoJames T. Araki
- MN 37:1 (1982) 130–33Warlords, Artists, and Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century by George Elison, Bardwell L. SmithRobert L. Backus
- MN 37:1 (1982) 134–36When The Twain Meet: The Rise of Western Medicine in Japan by John Z. BowersSusan Orpett Long
- MN 37:1 (1982) 136–38Shingū, A Study of a Japanese Fishing Community by Arne KallandEdward Norbeck
MN 36:4 (1981) 469–72Ōkagami, The Great Mirror: Fujiwara Michinaga (966–1027) and His Times by Helen Craig McCulloughSusan Matisoff- MN 36:4 (1981) 472–74Rebellion and Democracy in Meiji Japan: A Study of Commoners in the Popular Rights Movement by Roger W. BowenStephen Vlastos
- MN 36:4 (1981) 475Kaga: A Domain Which Changed Slowly by Robert G. Flershem, Yoshiko N. FlershemH. J. Jones
- MN 36:4 (1981) 476–79The Chinese and the Japanese: Essays in Political and Cultural Interactions by Akira IriyeLinda Grove
- MN 36:4 (1981) 479–82Education and Equality in Japan by William K. CummingsJohn Singleton
- MN 36:4 (1981) 482–83Nichiren: Selected Writings by Laurel Rasplica RoddDavid W. Chappell
- MN 36:4 (1981) 484–85Notes on Once-calling and Many-calling: A Translation of Shinran’s Ichinen-tanen mon’i by Yoshifumi UedaPaul O. Ingram
- MN 36:4 (1981) 485–86East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experience by Margaret M. LockArthur Kleinman
MN 36:3 (1981) 341–43The Poetic Memoirs of Lady Daibu by Phillip Tudor HarriesKenneth L. Richard- MN 36:3 (1981) 344–47Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500 to 1650 by John Whitney Hall, Nagahara Keiji, Kozo YamamuraConrad Totman
- MN 36:3 (1981) 347–48Japan and Its World: Two Centuries of Change by Marius B. JansenAkira Iriye
- MN 36:3 (1981) 349–50Schooldays in Imperial Japan: A Study in the Culture of a Student Elite by Donald T. RodenAnn Waswo
- MN 36:3 (1981) 351–53Japan’s Commission on the Constitution: The Final Report by John M. MakiTheodore McNelly
- MN 36:3 (1981) 353–55Record of Things Heard from the Treasury of the Eye of the True Teaching: The Shōbōgenzō-zuimonki, talks of Zen master Dōgen, as recorded by Zen master Ejō by Thomas ClearyT. James Kodera