Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 58:1 (2003) 143–46Ryōgen and Mount Hiei: Japanese Tendai in the Tenth Century by Paul GronerHank Glassman- MN 58:1 (2003) 146–48Martin Heidegger im Denken Watsuji Tetsurōs by Hans Peter LiederbachJoseph S. O'Leary
MN 57:4 (2002) 413–45Japan’s Foreign Relations 1200 to 1392 A.D.: A Translation from “Zenrin Kokuhōki”Charlotte von Verschuer- MN 57:4 (2002) 423–45Zenrin kokuhōki (Part 2)Zuikei Shūhō, Translated by Charlotte von Verschuer
- MN 57:4 (2002) 447–71Journeys, Pilgrimages, Excursions: Religious Travels in the Early Modern PeriodLaura Nenzi and Toshikazu Shinno
- MN 57:4 (2002) 473–507Koganei Kimiko: A Meiji-Born Woman WriterAngela Yiu
- MN 57:4 (2002) 509–528Digitalizing Japanese ArtHenry D. Smith II and Matthew P. McKelway
- MN 57:4 (2002) 529–531L’Office des études supérieures au Japon du VIIe au XIIe siècle et les dissertations des fin d’études by Atsuko CeugnietRobert Borgen
- MN 57:4 (2002) 531–534L’Enseignement de la lecture au Japon: Politique et éducation by Christian GalanDimitri Vanoverbeke
- MN 57:4 (2002) 534–536Song in an Age of Discord: The Journal of Sōchō and Poetic Life in Late Medieval Japan by H. Mack Horton; The Journal of Sōchō by H. Mack HortonRoselee Bundy
- MN 57:4 (2002) 536–539The Chrysanthemum and the Fish: Japanese Humor Since the Age of the Shoguns by Howard HibbettRichard A. Gardner
- MN 57:4 (2002) 539–542A History of Japanese Religion by Kazuo Kasahara, Paul McCarthy, Gaynor SekimoriBarbara Ambros
- MN 57:4 (2002) 542–545The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism: A Study and Translation of Gyōnen’s Jōdo Hōmon Genrushō by Mark L. BlumJames L. Ford
- MN 57:4 (2002) 545–547Zen and Philosophy: An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitarō by Michiko YusaJames W. Heisig
- MN 57:4 (2002) 548–550Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905–1931 by Gennifer WeisenfeldBert Winther-Tamaki
- MN 57:4 (2002) 550–553Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema: Towards a Political Reading of the “Tragic Hero” by Isolde StandishSharalyn Orbaugh
- MN 57:4 (2002) 553–554The History and Culture of Japanese Food by Naomichi IshigeMark J. Hudson
MN 57:3 (2002) 271–307Secret Buddhas: The Limits of Buddhist RepresentationFabio Rambelli- MN 57:3 (2002) 309–37The Unfinished Cartography: Murakami Haruki and the Postmodern Cognitive MapChiyoko Kawakami
- MN 57:3 (2002) 339–48“A” RevisitedRichard A. Gardner
- MN 57:3 (2002) 349–58The Ambiguous Legacy of Modern Japanese PhilosophyJohn C. Maraldo
- MN 57:3 (2002) 359–72The Polymorphous Canon: Identity and InventionPaul Gordon Schalow
- MN 57:3 (2002) 373–75Prisoners from Nambu: Reality and Make-Believe in 17th-Century Japanese Diplomacy by Reinier H. HesselinkWillem Remmelink
- MN 57:3 (2002) 375–78Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912 by Donald KeeneStephen S. Large
- MN 57:3 (2002) 378–81Nakae Tōju (1608–1648) et Kumazawa Banzan (1619–1691): Deux penseurs de l’epoque d’Edo by Jean-François SoumJacques Joly
- MN 57:3 (2002) 381–83Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology by Julia Adeney ThomasBrett L. Walker
- MN 57:3 (2002) 384–86Translating the West: Language and Political Reason in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Douglas R. HowlandKōichirō Matsuda
- MN 57:3 (2002) 386–89Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia: A Feminist Poet from Japan Encounters Prewar China by Yosano Akiko, Joshua A. FogelG. G. Rowley
- MN 57:3 (2002) 389–91Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture by Yoshikuni IgarashiJulian Dierkes
- MN 57:3 (2002) 392–93Adaptations of Western Literature in Meiji Japan by J. Scott MillerPeter F. Kornicki
- MN 57:3 (2002) 394–96Fiktion versus Wirklichkeit: Die moderne historische Erzählung in Japan. Modell einer Genretheorie und -typologie zur rekishi shōsetsu by Harald MeyerMargaret Mehl
- MN 57:3 (2002) 396–99Requiem on the Great Meridian and Selected Essays by Kinoshita Junji, Brian Powell, Jason DanielMari Boyd
- MN 57:3 (2002) 399–402Eine gewisse Farbe der Fremdheit: Aspekte des Übersetzens Japanisch-Deutsch-Japanisch by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitAsa-Bettina Wuthenow
- MN 57:3 (2002) 402–405Art in the Encounter of Nations: Japanese and American Artists in the Early Postwar Years by Bert Winther-TamakiAllen Hockley
- MN 57:3 (2002) 406–408Japanese Education Reform: Nakasone’s Legacy by Christopher P. HoodPeter Cave
- MN 57:3 (2002) 408–409The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan by Hikaru SuzukiEyal Ben-Ari
- MN 57:3 (2002) 410–12Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams by Karen KelskyJames Farrer
MN 57:2 (2002) 133–71Apocryphal Texts and Literary Identity: Sei Shōnagon and “The Matsushima Diary”R. Keller Kimbrough- MN 57:2 (2002) 157–71The Matsushima DiarySei Shōnagon, Translated by R. Keller Kimbrough
- MN 57:2 (2002) 173–206Interview with a Bakumatsu Official: A Translation from “Kyūji Shimonroku” (Part 2)Kyūji Shimonkai and Yamaguchi Naoki, Translated by Anna Beerens
- MN 57:2 (2002) 207–27Shugendō: The State of the FieldGaynor Sekimori
- MN 57:2 (2002) 229–31The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590–1800 by Brett L. WalkerBruce L. Batten
- MN 57:2 (2002) 231–34Yukichi Fukuzawa 1835–1901: The Spirit of Enterprise in Modern Japan by Norio TamakiDouglas Howland
- MN 57:2 (2002) 234–37The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932 by Yoshihisa Tak MatsusakaLouise Young
- MN 57:2 (2002) 237–39The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan by Fujiko HaraDick Stegewerns
- MN 57:2 (2002) 239–42The People’s Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945–1995 by Kenneth J. RuoffStephen S. Large
- MN 57:2 (2002) 242–44Japanese Prehistory: The Material and Spiritual Culture of the Jōmon Period by Nelly NaumannMarie Maurin
- MN 57:2 (2002) 244–46Dieux et Bouddhas au Japon by Bernard FrankAllan G. Grapard