Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 36:3 (1981) 355–57Kabuki Encyclopedia: An English-Language Adaptation of Kabuki Jiten by Samuel L. LeiterAndrew T. Tsubaki- MN 36:3 (1981) 358–60Journey of the Three Jewels: Japanese Buddhist Paintings from Western Collections by John M. Rosenfield, Elizabeth ten GrotenhuisYasushi Egami
- MN 36:3 (1981) 360–61Mountain Storm, Pine Breeze: Folk Song in Japan by Patia R. IsakuFanny Hagin Mayer
- MN 36:3 (1981) 361–62Japanese Prints Today: Tradition with Innovation by Margaret K. Johnson, Dale K. HiltonRonald G. Robertson
- MN 36:3 (1981) 363–64Mélanges offerts à M. Charles Haguenauer en l’honneur de son quatre-vingtième anniversaire. Études japonaises by L’Institut des Hautes Études Japonaises du Collège de FranceMichael Cooper
MN 36:2 (1981) 201–202Collection de sable et de pierres: Shasekishū par Ichien Mujū by Hartmut O. RotermundRobert E. Morrell- MN 36:2 (1981) 202–205Yokomitsu Riichi: Modernist by Dennis KeeneValdo H. Viglielmo
- MN 36:2 (1981) 206–208A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa by H. Paul VarleyJohn S. Brownlee
- MN 36:2 (1981) 208–10Tokutomi Sohō, 1863–1957: A Journalist for Modern Japan by John D. PiersonJames L. Huffman
- MN 36:2 (1981) 210–12Intellectual Change and Political Development in Early Modern Japan: Ono Azusa, A Case Study by Sandra T. W. DavisThomas R. H. Havens
- MN 36:2 (1981) 212–14The Fateful Choice: Japan’s Advance into Southeast Asia, 1938–1941. Selected translations from Taiheiyō sensō e no michi: kaisen gaikō shi by James William MorleyJoyce C. Lebra
- MN 36:2 (1981) 214–16The 1942 Japanese General Election: Political Mobilization in Wartime Japan by Edward J. DreaGordon Mark Berger
- MN 36:2 (1981) 216–19The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration by Jack HillierKenneth Gardner
- MN 36:2 (1981) 219–21Japanese Lacquer, 1600–1900: Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection by Andrew J. PekarikRaymond Bushell
- MN 36:2 (1981) 221–22Early Buddhist Architecture in Japan by Kakichi Suzuki, Mary Neighbour Parent, Nancy Shatzman SteinhardtJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.
- MN 36:2 (1981) 223–25Long Engagements: Maturity in Modern Japan by David W. PlathFelix Moos
- MN 36:2 (1981) 225–27Rural Society in Japan by Tadashi Fukutake, The Japan InterpreterEdward Norbeck
- MN 36:2 (1981) 227–28Noguchi and His Patrons by Isabel R. PlessetMargaret Lock
- MN 36:2 (1981) 229–31Geography of Japan by The Association of Japanese GeographersDavid H. Kornhauser
- MN 36:2 (1981) 232–33Mountain Tasting: Zen Haiku by Santōka Taneda by John StevensJames Abrams
MN 36:1 (1981) 93–94The Tale of Nezame: Part Three of Yowa no Nezame Monogatari by Carol HochstedlerJennifer Brewster- MN 36:1 (1981) 95–97Chieko and Other Poems of Takamura Kōtarō by Hiroaki SatoDennis Keene
- MN 36:1 (1981) 97–99Kaneko Mitsuharu by James R. MoritaJames A. O'Brien
- MN 36:1 (1981) 99–101Tanaka Giichi and Japan’s China Policy by William F. MortonIan Nish
- MN 36:1 (1981) 101–102The Diplomacy of Japan, 1894–1922. Volume III: First World War, Paris Peace Conference, Washington Conference by Morinosuke KajimaHilary Conroy
- MN 36:1 (1981) 103–105Japanese Ink Painting: Early Zen Masterpieces by Hiroshi Kanazawa, Barbara FordMoney Hickman
- MN 36:1 (1981) 105–107Geschichte de japanischen Religion. Volume 1: Die alte Landersreligion. Volume 2: Japan mit und unter dem Buddhismus by Matthias EderArcadio Schwade
- MN 36:1 (1981) 107–109Zen Enlightenment: Origins and Meaning by Heinrich Dumoulin, John C. MaraldoJoseph M. Kitagawa
- MN 36:1 (1981) 109–10Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology by Thomas ClearyAlfred Bloom
- MN 36:1 (1981) 110–11The Quiet Therapies: Japanese Pathways to Personal Growth by David K. ReynoldsChristie W. Kiefer
- MN 36:1 (1981) 111–12Learning from Shogun: Japanese History and Western Fantasy by Henry SmithMichael Cooper
MN 35:4 (1980) 485–87The Japanese Novel of the Meiji Period and the Ideal of Individualism by Janet A. WalkerJames R. Morita- MN 35:4 (1980) 487–90Reality and Fiction in Modern Japanese Literature by Noriko Mizuta LippitJanet A. Walker
- MN 35:4 (1980) 490–93Mask and Sword: Two Plays for the Contemporary Japanese Theater by Yamazaki Masakazu by J. Thomas RimerEric J. Gangloff
- MN 35:4 (1980) 493–95The Modern Japanese Prose Poem: An Anthology of Six Poets by Dennis KeeneRobert Epp
- MN 35:4 (1980) 495–96Hōjō Shigetoki (1198–1261) and His Role in the History of Political and Ethical Ideas in Japan by Carl SteenstrupElizabeth Sato
- MN 35:4 (1980) 497–99The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862–1868 by Conrad TotmanW. G. Beasley
- MN 35:4 (1980) 499–502Politics of the Meiji Press: The Life of Fukuchi Gen’ichiro by James L. HuffmanAlbert Avraham Altman
- MN 35:4 (1980) 502–504Live Machines: Hired Foreigners and Meiji Japan by Hazel J. JonesEdward R. Beauchamp
- MN 35:4 (1980) 504–505The Extraordinary Envoy: General Hiroshi Ōshima and Diplomacy in the Third Reich, 1934–1939 by Carl BoydFrank W. Iklé
- MN 35:4 (1980) 505–508Dōgen’s Formative Years in China: An Historical Study and Annotated Translation of the Hōkyō-ki by Takashi James KoderaHee-Jin Kim
- MN 35:4 (1980) 508–511Letters of Shinran: A Translation of Mattōshō by Yoshifumi Ueda; Notes on ‘Essentials of Faith Alone’: A Translation of Shinran’s Yuishinshō-mon’I by Yoshifumi UedaMinor Lee Rogers
- MN 35:4 (1980) 511–512Shigaraki, Potter’s Valley by Louise Allison CortAndrew Pekarik
- MN 35:4 (1980) 512–513Hōyaku Nippo Jisho by Doi Tadao, Morita Takeshi, Chōnan MinoruMichael Cooper
MN 35:3 (1980) 347–48A History of Japanese Literature: The First Thousand Years by Shūichi Katō, David ChibbettJ. Thomas Rimer- MN 35:3 (1980) 349–51Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection by Marian UryRobert E. Morrell
- MN 35:3 (1980) 351–55Masamune Hakuchō by Robert RolfWilliam F. Sibley
- MN 35:3 (1980) 356A History of Political Institutions in Japan by Ryōsuke IshiiSharon A. Minichiello