Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 34:4 (1979) 510Evolving Techniques in Japanese Woodblock Prints by Gaston Petit, Amadio ArboledaOliver Statler- MN 34:4 (1979) 511–513Six Lives, Six Deaths. Portraits from Modern Japan by Robert Jay Lifton, Shūichi Katō, Michael R. ReichChristie W. Kiefer
- MN 34:4 (1979) 513–514Modern Japanese Literature in Translation: A Bibliography by International House of Japan LibraryMichael Cooper
MN 34:3 (1979) 369–72Nakahara. Family Planning and Population in a Japanese Village, 1717–1830 by Thomas C. SmithCharles D. Sheldon- MN 34:3 (1979) 373–75Oranda Fūsetsugaki Shūsei. Volume I and Volume II by Iwao Sei’ichiShun’ichi H. Takayanagi
- MN 34:3 (1979) 376–79Science and Culture in Traditional Japan, A.D. 600–1854 by Masayoshi Sugimoto, David L. SwainKenkichiro Koizumi
- MN 34:3 (1979) 380–81Japan As Number One. Lessons for America by Ezra VogelRobert J. Smith
- MN 34:3 (1979) 382Washi. The World of Japanese Paper by Sukey HughesMasako Koyano
MN 34:2 (1979) 239–42And Then by Natsume Sōseki, Norma Moore FieldJay Rubin- MN 34:2 (1979) 243–44Pacifism in Japan. The Christian and Socialist Tradition by Nobuya Bamba, John F. HowesH. J. Jones
- MN 34:2 (1979) 245Learning To Be Japanese. Selected Readings on Japanese Society and Education by Edward R. BeauchampHerbert Passin
- MN 34:2 (1979) 247–50Authority and the Individual in Japan. Citizen Protest in Historical Perspective by J. Victor KoschmannGeorge A. DeVos
- MN 34:2 (1979) 251–52Diego Collado’s Grammar of the Japanese Language by Richard L. SpearJoseph F. Moran
- MN 34:2 (1979) 253–54Kyoto Woodcuts by Naoko MatsubaraGaston Petit
- MN 34:2 (1979) 254–56The Waves at Genji’s Door: Japan Through Its Cinema by Joan Mellen; Japanese Film Directors by Audie BockDavid J. Brudnoy
- MN 34:2 (1979) 245–47Shinohata, a Portrait of a Japanese Village by Ronald P. DoreEdward Norbeck
MN 34:1 (1979) 113–15Ryōkan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan by Burton WatsonMarian Ury- MN 34:1 (1979) 115–17Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan, 1600–1868 by Susan B. Hanley, Kozo YamamuraWilliam B. Hauser
- MN 34:1 (1979) 118–19The Diplomacy of Japan, 1894–1922. Volume II: Anglo-Japanese Alliance and Russo-Japanese War by Morinosuke KajimaPeter Lowe
- MN 34:1 (1979) 119–21Historia de Japam by Luis Fróis, Josef WickiMichael Cooper
- MN 34:1 (1979) 121–22Kurusu. The Price of Progress in a Japanese Village, 1951–1975 by Robert J. SmithMitsuru Shimpo
- MN 34:1 (1979) 123–24Bugaku Masks by Kyōtarō Nishikawa, Monica BetheGunhild Gabbert
MN 33:4 (1978) 471–73From Court to Capital: A Tentative Interpretation of the Origins of the Japanese Urban Tradition by Paul Wheatley, Thomas SeeJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.- MN 33:4 (1978) 473–76Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History by Seiichi Iwao, Burton WatsonJohn Whitney Hall
- MN 33:4 (1978) 476–79Ox Against the Storm. A Biography of Tanaka Shozo: Japan’s Conservationist Pioneer by Kenneth StrongF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 33:4 (1978) 479–81Sanuki no Suke Nikki. A Translation of the Emperor Horikawa Diary by Jennifer BrewsterKaren Brazell
- MN 33:4 (1978) 482–88The Legend of Semimaru, Blind Musician of Japan by Susan MatisoffD. E. Mills
- MN 33:4 (1978) 489–91In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, Thomas J. Harper, Edward G. Seidensticker, Charles MoorePaul McCarthy
- MN 33:4 (1978) 492–93Howling at the Moon, Poems of Hagiwara Sakutarō by Hiroaki SatoJ. Thomas Rimer
- MN 33:4 (1978) 493–94The Voices and Hands of Bunraku by Barbara AdachiThomas Immoos
- MN 33:4 (1978) 495Japanese Design Through Textile Patterns by Frances BlakemoreMary Helen Mine
- MN 33:4 (1978) 497–500Nagasaki Prints and Early Copperplates by Masanobu Hosono, Lloyd R. CraighillCal French
- MN 33:4 (1978) 500–502The History of Japanese Printing and Book Illustration by David ChibbettDavid Waterhouse
- MN 33:4 (1978) 502–504The Constitutional Case Law of Japan. Selected Supreme Court Decisions 1961–70 by Hiroshi Itoh, Lawrence Ward BeerThomas L. Blakemore
- MN 33:4 (1978) 504–505Shikinaisha Chōsa Hōkoku XXIV: Saikaidō by Shikinaisha KenkyūkaiFelicia Gressitt Bock
- MN 33:4 (1978) 495–96The Art of Japanese Joinery by Kiyosi Seike, Yuriko Yobuko, Rebecca M. DavisWilliam H. Coaldrake
MN 33:3 (1978) 357–59Kōda Rohan by Chieko Irie MulhernJames R. Morita- MN 33:3 (1978) 359–60Genji Days by Edward G. SeidenstickerMarian Ury
- MN 33:3 (1978) 360–62Japan in the Muromachi Age by John Whitney Hall, Toyoda TakeshiHartmut O. Rotermund
- MN 33:3 (1978) 362–64A Discourse on Government: Nakae Chōmin and his Sansuijin Keirin Mondō by Margaret B. DardessBarbara J. Teters
- MN 33:3 (1978) 364–68Japanese Colonial Education in Taiwan, 1895–1945 by E. Patricia TsurumiEdward I-Te Chen
- MN 33:3 (1978) 368–70The Diplomacy of Japan 1894–1922. Volume I: Sino-Japanese War and Triple Intervention by Morinosuke KajimaSidney DeVere Brown
- MN 33:3 (1978) 370–72Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War Two by Thomas R. H. HavensRichard H. Mitchell
- MN 33:3 (1978) 372–75Japanese Theatre by Thomas Immoos, Hugh Young; Studies in Kabuki, Its Acting, Music and Historical Context by James R. Brandon, William P. Malm, Donald ShivelyA. C. Scott
- MN 33:3 (1978) 375–76Japanese and the Japanese. Words in Culture by Takao Suzuki, Akira MiuraWillem A. Grootaers
- MN 33:3 (1978) 376–78Shino and Oribe Ceramics by Ryōchi Fujioka, Samuel Crowell MorseJohanna Becker
MN 33:2 (1978) 215–16Sanshiro, A Novel by Natsume Sōseki, Jay RubinAlan Turney- MN 33:2 (1978) 216–18The Burning Heart: Women Poets of Japan by Kenneth Rexroth, Ikuko AtsumiLeon M. Zolbrod