Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 59:3 (2004) 421–24Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan by Andrew M. WatskyGregory Levine- MN 59:3 (2004) 425–27Die Inszenierung der kulturellen Identität in Japan: Das Beispiel der Olympischen Spiele Tōkyō 1964 by Christian TagsoldAndreas Niehaus
- MN 59:3 (2004) 427–29Schreiben und Erinnern: Über Selbstzeugnisse japanischer Kriegsteilnehmer by Petra BuchholzFranziska Seraphim
- MN 59:3 (2004) 430Comment: The Iwakura Embassy in RussiaPeter F. Kornicki
MN 59:2 (2004) 153–77Out of the Mouths of Nurses: “The Tale of Sagoromo” and Midranks RomanceCharo B. D'Etcheverry- MN 59:2 (2004) 179–222The Two Faces of Nagasaki: The World of the Suwa Festival ScreenReinier H. Hesselink
- MN 59:2 (2004) 223–44Medieval Experience, Modern Visions: Women in BuddhismRajyashree Pandey
- MN 59:2 (2004) 245–55Confucian Idealism and “The Tale of Genji”Naoaki Hiraishi
- MN 59:2 (2004) 257–59The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 by S. C. M. PaineRolf-Harald Wippich
- MN 59:2 (2004) 260–62Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality by Vera MackieBarbara Sato
- MN 59:2 (2004) 263–65Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and Its Legacy by Takemae Eiji, Robert Ricketts, Sebastian SwannHarald Fuess
- MN 59:2 (2004) 266–67Tsumi: Offence and Retribution in Early Japan by Yoko WilliamsGary L. Ebersole
- MN 59:2 (2004) 268–70Japans Neue Spiritualität by Lisette GebhardtCharles De Wolf
- MN 59:2 (2004) 271–75Living Images: Japanese Buddhist Icons in Context by Robert H. Sharf, Elizabeth Horton SharfDonald F. McCallum
- MN 59:2 (2004) 275–77Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field by Joshua S. Mostow, Norman Bryson, Maribeth GraybillAllen Hockley
- MN 59:2 (2004) 278–80The Lyric Journey: Poetic Painting in China and Japan by James CahillHiromitsu Kobayashi
- MN 59:2 (2004) 280–83Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain by Ellen SchattschneiderBirgit Staemmler
MN 59:1 (2004) 1–34Visions of the Dead: Kano Tan’yū’s Paintings of Tokugawa Iemitsu’s DreamsKaren M. Gerhart- MN 59:1 (2004) 35–82Living Icons: “Reizō” Myths of the Saikoku Kannon PilgrimageMark MacWilliams
- MN 59:1 (2004) 83–119An Extraordinary Odyssey: The Iwakura Embassy TranslatedF. G. Notehelfer, Igor R. Saveliev and W. F. Vande Walle
- MN 59:1 (2004) 121–26Farmers and Village Life in Twentieth Century Japan by Ann Waswo, Nishida YoshiakiNeil L. Waters
- MN 59:1 (2004) 126–29Nation and Nationalism in Japan by Sandra WilsonKurt Werner Radtke
- MN 59:1 (2004) 129–31The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan by Barbara SatoDavid R. Ambaras
- MN 59:1 (2004) 131–34Unfinished Business: Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937–1953 by Haruo IguchiYoshihisa Tak Matsusaka
- MN 59:1 (2004) 134–37War, Occupation, and Creativity: Japan and East Asia, 1920–1960 by Marlene J. Mayo, J. Thomas Rimer, H. Eleanor KerkhamJames Dorsey
- MN 59:1 (2004) 138–40Theatricalities of Power: The Cultural Politics of Noh by Steven T. BrownNoel John Pinnington
- MN 59:1 (2004) 140–43Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, Practice by Morgan PitelkaChristine M. E. Guth
- MN 59:1 (2004) 143–45Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda, G. G. RowleySimon Partner
- MN 59:1 (2004) 145–48The Rules of Play: National Identity and the Shaping of Japanese Leisure by David LehenyWolfram Manzenreiter
- MN 59:1 (2004) 148–51Children of the Japanese State: The Changing Role of Child Protection Institutions in Contemporary Japan by Roger Goodman; Can the Japanese Change Their Education System? by Roger Goodman, David PhillipsSusanne Kreitz-Sandberg
MN 58:4 (2003) 439–93A Chūshingura Palimpsest: Young Motoori Norinaga Hears the Story of the Akō Rōnin from a Buddhist PriestFederico Marcon and Henry D. Smith II- MN 58:4 (2003) 467–93The Story of the Loyal Samurai of AkōMotoori Norinaga, Translated by Federico Marcon
- MN 58:4 (2003) 495–529Childhood Reimagined: The Memoirs of Ōgai’s ChildrenTomoko Aoyama
- MN 58:4 (2003) 531–533In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga’s Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan by Thomas D. ConlanReinhard Zöllner
- MN 58:4 (2003) 534–537Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603–1868 by Marcia YonemotoLuke S. Roberts
- MN 58:4 (2003) 537–539The Origin and Development of Japanese-Style Organization by Kasaya KazuhikoMark Ravina
- MN 58:4 (2003) 539–541Konfliktaustragung in autoritären Herrschaftssystemen: Eine historische Fallstudie zur frühsozialistischen Bewegung im Japan der Meiji-Zeit by Maik Hendrik SprotteSven Saaler
- MN 58:4 (2003) 542–544Marxist History and Postwar Japanese Nationalism by Curtis Anderson GayleSebastian Conrad
- MN 58:4 (2003) 544–547Awesome Nightfall: The Life, Times, and Poetry of Saigyō by William R. LaFleurRichard A. Gardner
- MN 58:4 (2003) 547–550The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father by Rebecca L. Copeland, Esperanza Ramirez-ChristensenJanet A. Walker
- MN 58:4 (2003) 550–552Topographies of Japanese Modernism by Seiji M. LippitSusan Napier
- MN 58:4 (2003) 553–556Unhappy Soldier: Hino Ashihei and Japanese World War II Literature by David M. RosenfeldSeiji M. Lippit
- MN 58:4 (2003) 556–558Dodonaeus in Japan: Translation and the Scientific Mind in the Tokugawa Period by W. F. Vande Walle, Kazuhiko KasayaMichael R. Auslin
- MN 58:4 (2003) 558–561Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan: A Study of the Southern Kantō Region, Using Late Edo and Early Meiji Gazetteers by Helen HardacreNathalie Kouamé
- MN 58:4 (2003) 561–563Zen War Stories by Brian Daizen VictoriaRobert Kisala
- MN 58:4 (2003) 563–566The History of Japanese Photography by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Dana Friis-Hansen, Kaneko Ryūichi, Takeba Joe, Iizawa Kōtarō, Kinoshita NaoyukiJulia Adeney Thomas
- MN 58:4 (2003) 566–569An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context by Umesao Tadao, Beth Cary, Harumi BefuBrett L. Walker
- MN 58:4 (2003) 569–571CorrespondenceMichael Lewis and Sandra Wilson