Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
- MN 32:1 (1977) 119–20Fernöstliche Kultur. Wolf Haenisch zugeeignet von seinem Marburger StudienkreisThomas Immoos
- MN 32:1 (1977) 120–23Women in Changing Japan by Joyce Lebra, Joy Paulson, Elizabeth PowersH. J. Jones
MN 31:4 (1976) 431–32Guide to Japanese Poetry by J. Thomas Rimer, Robert E. MorrellMakoto Ueda- MN 31:4 (1976) 432–33Thought Control in Prewar Japan by Richard H. MitchellThomas R. H. Havens
- MN 31:4 (1976) 434–36The New Jerusalem: Aspects of Utopianism in the Thought of Kagawa Toyohiko by George B. Bikle, Jr.Stephen S. Large
- MN 31:4 (1976) 436–38Legal Reform in Occupied Japan. A Participant Looks Back by Alfred C. OpplerThomas L. Blakemore
- MN 31:4 (1976) 439–40Iwanami Kogo Jiten by Ōno Susumu, Satake Akihiro, Maeda KingorōMarian Ury
- MN 31:4 (1976) 440–41Japanese Art in World Perspective by Toru Terada, Thomas GuerinJoseph P. Love
MN 31:3 (1976) 309–14Classical Japanese Grammar Illustrated with Texts by Tadashi IkedaThomas J. Harper- MN 31:3 (1976) 314–16Mori Ōgai by J. Thomas RimerJay Rubin
- MN 31:3 (1976) 317–18The Japanese Army in North China, 1937–1941: Problems of Political and Economic Control by Lincoln LiMark R. Peattie
- MN 31:3 (1976) 319–20Major Themes in Japanese Art by Itsuji Yoshikawa, Armins NikovskisJoan Lebold Cohen
- MN 31:3 (1976) 321–22Kabuki: Five Classic Plays by James R. BrandonTed T. Takaya
- MN 31:3 (1976) 323–24Shunga: The Art of Love in Japan by Tom Evans, Mary Anne EvansC. H. Mitchell
- MN 31:3 (1976) 324–26Circle of Harmony. A Case Study in Popular Japanese Buddhism by Kenneth J. DaleErnest D. Piryns
- MN 31:3 (1976) 326–29Morita Psychotherapy by David K. ReynoldsNancy Lee Koschmann