Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
- MN 33:2 (1978) 218–20The Historical Literature of Mori Ōgai by David Dilworth, J. Thomas Rimer. Volume I: The Incident at Sakai and Other Stories; Volume II: Saiki Kōi and Other StoriesJames T. Araki
- MN 33:2 (1978) 221–22Contemporary Japanese Literature. An Anthology of Fiction, Film, and Other Writing Since 1945 by Howard HibbettBrian Powell
- MN 33:2 (1978) 222–23Japanese Foreign Policy, 1869–1942. Kasumigaseki to Miyakezaka by Ian NishGeorge Macklin Wilson
- MN 33:2 (1978) 224–26The Anatomy of a Small War: The Soviet-Japanese Struggle for Changkufeng/Khasan, 1938 by Alvin D. CooxJohn Hunter Boyle
- MN 33:2 (1978) 226–27Japanese-Trained Armies in Southeast Asia: Independence and Volunteer Forces in World War II by Joyce C. LebraAlvin D. Coox
- MN 33:2 (1978) 227–28Japanese Landlords: The Decline of a Rural Elite by Ann WaswoThomas R. H. Havens
- MN 33:2 (1978) 229–30Pure Land Buddhist Painting by Jōji Okazaki, Elizabeth ten GrotenhuisAlfred Bloom
- MN 33:2 (1978) 231–32Momoyama Decorative Painting by Tsugiyoshi Doi, Edna B. Crawford; Kanō Eitoku by Tsuneo Takeda, H. Mack Horton, Catherine KaputaFred H. Martinson
- MN 33:2 (1978) 232–34Japanese Portrait Sculpture by Hisashi Mōri, W. Chië IshibashiE. Dale Saunders
- MN 33:2 (1978) 234–37The Japanese Language in Contemporary Japan. Some Sociolinguistic Observations by Roy Andrew MillerMasanori Higa
- MN 33:2 (1978) 237–39Nihon Shoseki Sōmokuroku, ’77–’78. Set of two volumes. Shomei, Sakuin by Nihon Shoseki Shuppan Kyōkai; Doctoral Dissertations on Asia. An Annotated Bibliographical Journal of Current International Research. Vol. 2, No. 1 & 2 by Frank Joseph ShulmanMichael Cooper
MN 32:4 (1977) 525–526Essays on Japanese Literature by Katsuhiko TakedaRichard Bowring- MN 32:4 (1977) 527–529One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan by John StevensJames Abrams
- MN 32:4 (1977) 529–530The True Story of the Siege of Kumamoto Castle by Takehiko Ideishi, James H. BuckSidney DeVere Brown
- MN 32:4 (1977) 530–531Power in the Pacific. The Origins of Naval Arms Limitation, 1914–22 by Roger DingmanIan Nish
- MN 32:4 (1977) 531–533Deterrent Diplomacy: Japan, Germany, and the USSR, 1935–1940 by James William MorleyRichard H. Mitchell