Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
- MN 32:4 (1977) 533–534Japanese Marxist. A Portrait of Kawakami Hajime, 1879–1946 by Gail Lee BernsteinPatricia G. Steinhoff
- MN 32:4 (1977) 535–536The End of the War in Asia by Louis AllenAlvin D. Coox
- MN 32:4 (1977) 536–541Introduction to Japanese Law by Yoshiyuki Noda, Anthony H. AngeloDan Fenno Henderson
- MN 32:4 (1977) 541–543Das Dairi-shiki: Eine Studie zu seiner Entstehung und Wirkung by Michael Charlier; Die Stellung der Frau im Shintō: Eine religionsphänomenologische und- soziologische Untersuchung by Haruko OkanoFelicia Gressitt Bock
- MN 32:4 (1977) 543–545Études Choisies de Charles Haguenauer. Volume I: Japon, Études de Linguistique; Volume II: Japon, Études de Religion, d’Histoire et de LittératurePaul Rietsch
- MN 32:4 (1977) 546–547Guides to Japanese Culture. by Murakami Hyōe, Edward G. Seidensticker; Nihon Bunka Teiyō by Murakami HyōeGordon Daniels
- MN 32:4 (1977) 547–549The Study of Language in Japan. A Historical Survey by Toshio DoiRoland A. Lange
- MN 32:4 (1977) 549–552The National Atlas of Japan by The Japan Map CenterMichael Cooper
MN 32:3 (1977) 389–92Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature by Makoto UedaMarleigh Grayer Ryan- MN 32:3 (1977) 392–95The Kamakura Bakufu: A Study in Documents by Jeffrey P. MassCarl Steenstrup
- MN 32:3 (1977) 395–97Parties Out of Power in Japan, 1931–1941 by Gordon Mark BergerBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 32:3 (1977) 397–99The Drama of W. B. Yeats. Irish Myth and the Japanese Nō by Richard TaylorEileen Katō
- MN 32:3 (1977) 399–402Music of a Thousand Autumns. The Tōgaku Style of Japanese Court Music by Robert GarfiasTaeko Kusano
- MN 32:3 (1977) 403–404Dialogue in Art. Japan and the West by Chisaburoh F. YamadaPeter C. Swann
- MN 32:3 (1977) 404–406Japanese Patterns of Behavior by Takei Sugiyama LebraHarumi Befu
- MN 32:3 (1977) 407–10Toshokan. Libraries in Japanese Society by Theodore F. WelchEverett T. Moore
MN 32:2 (1977) 245–46Worldly Mental Calculations. An Annotated Translation of Ihara Saikaku’s Seken munezan’yō by Ben BefuC. J. Dunn- MN 32:2 (1977) 246–48The Psychological World of Natsume Sōseki by Takeo Doi, William J. TylerAlan Turney
- MN 32:2 (1977) 249The Family by Toson Shimazaki, Cecilia Segawa SeigleEdwin McClellan
- MN 32:2 (1977) 250–52A History of Japanese Lacquerwork by Beatrix von Ragué, Annie R. de WassermannLouise Allison Cort
- MN 32:2 (1977) 253–54An American Teacher in Early Meiji Japan by Edward R. BeauchampH. J. Jones
- MN 32:2 (1977) 254–58Dōgen Kigen-Mystical Realist by Hee-Jin Kim; Shōbōgenzō. The Eye and Treasury of the True Law. Volume I by Dōgen Zenji, Kōsen Nishiyama, John Stevens; Zen Master Dōgen. An Introduction with Selected Writings by Yūhō Yokoi, Daizen VictoriaHisao Inagaki
- MN 32:2 (1977) 258–59Shikinaisha Chōsa Hōkoku. Daijūikkan, Tōkaidō 6 by Takikawa MasajirōFelicia Gressitt Bock
- MN 32:2 (1977) 259–61The Japanese Legal System. Introductory Cases and Materials by Hideo Tanaka, Malcolm D. H. SmithLawrence Ward Beer
- MN 32:2 (1977) 261–62Three Decades in Shiwa. Economic Development and Social Change in a Japanese Farming Community by Mitsuru ShimpoGary D. Allinson
- MN 32:2 (1977) 263–65Arbeit, Freizeit und Familie in Japan. Eine Untersuchung der Lebensweise von Arbeitern und Angestellten in Grossbetrieben by Sepp LinhartBurghard Weghaus
- MN 32:2 (1977) 265–67Doctoral Dissertations on Asia. Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 1975 by Frank Joseph Shulman; Doctoral Dissertations on Asia. Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 1975 by Frank Joseph Shulman; Doctoral Dissertations on Japan and Korea, 1969–1974 by Frank Joseph ShulmanMichael Cooper
MN 32:1 (1977) 111–12Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Literature by Sen’ichi HisamatsuKaren Brazell- MN 32:1 (1977) 113–14Heian Temples. Byodo-in and Chuson-ji by Toshio Fukuyama, Ronald K. JonesMichio Yonekura
- MN 32:1 (1977) 114–15Enku, Master Carver by Grisha F. DotzenkoGeorge Komarovskii
- MN 32:1 (1977) 116–17The Silk Road and the Shoso-in by Ryoichi Hayashi, Robert RickettsJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.
- MN 32:1 (1977) 118–19Japanese Ink Paintings by Yoshiaki Shimizu, Carolyn WheelwrightJoseph P. Love