Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
- 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