Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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) 157–71The Matsushima DiarySei Shōnagon, Translated by R. Keller Kimbrough- MN 57:2 (2002) 133–71Apocryphal Texts and Literary Identity: Sei Shōnagon and “The Matsushima Diary”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
- MN 57:2 (2002) 246–49Chikamatsu: Five Late Plays by C. Andrew GerstleAnne Walthall
- MN 57:2 (2002) 249–52Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyōka by M. Cody PoultonAtsuko Sakaki
- MN 57:2 (2002) 252–54The Lucky Seventh: Early Hōryū-ji and Its Time by J. Edward Kidder, Jr.Donald F. McCallum
- MN 57:2 (2002) 255–57The Practices of Painting in Japan, 1474–1500 by Quitman E. PhillipsMatthew P. McKelway
- MN 57:2 (2002) 257–60Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema by Mitsuhiro YoshimotoAkira Mizuta Lippit
- MN 57:2 (2002) 260–62Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation by Susan J. NapierLynne K. Miyake
- MN 57:2 (2002) 263–65Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan by E. Taylor AtkinsShūhei Hosokawa
- MN 57:2 (2002) 265–66Japanese Sports: A History by Allen Guttmann, Lee ThompsonWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 57:2 (2002) 266–69Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture by Sandra BuckleyIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
- MN 57:2 (2002) 270Errata
MN 57:1 (2002) 1–42Reexamining Tea: “Yuisho”, “Suki”, “Yatsushi”, and “Furumai”Isao Kumakura, Translated by Peter McMillan- MN 57:1 (2002) 43–71Oratory in Meiji and Taishō Japan: Public Speaking and the Formation of a New Written LanguageMassimiliano Tomasi
- MN 57:1 (2002) 78–89The Love Suicides at ShinagawaEdited by David Pollack
- MN 57:1 (2002) 73–89The Love Suicides at Shinagawa: A Sort of Love StoryDavid Pollack
- MN 57:1 (2002) 91–94Women and Class in Japanese History by Hitomi Tonomura, Anne Walthall, Wakita HarukoGregory M. Pflugfelder
- MN 57:1 (2002) 94–96The Historical Demography of Pre-modern Japan by Akira HayamiPhilip C. Brown
- MN 57:1 (2002) 96–99Informationssystem und kulturelles Leben in den Städten der Edo-Zeit by Shiro Kohsaka, Johannes LaubePeter F. Kornicki
- MN 57:1 (2002) 99–104Gesetzgebung im vormodernen Japan: Rechtsgebote und die Ideen der Konfuzianisten in der Edo-Zeit (1603–1868) by Carolin Reimers; Die Entstehung der Meiji-Verfassung: Zur Rolle des deutschen Konstitutionalismus im modernen japanischen Staatswesen by Junko AndoF. B. Verwayen
- MN 57:1 (2002) 104–106Democracy in Pre-War Japan, Concepts of Government, 1871–1937: Collected Essays by Junji Banno, Andrew FraserM. William Steele
- MN 57:1 (2002) 106–109The Victim as Hero: Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan by James J. Orr; Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s) by T. Fujitani, Geoffrey M. White, Lisa YoneyamaSebastian Conrad
- MN 57:1 (2002) 110–12Obaku Zen: The Emergence of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan by Helen J. BaroniMartin Collcutt
- MN 57:1 (2002) 112–14Writing Margins: The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan by Terry KawashimaRajyashree Pandey
- MN 57:1 (2002) 115–17Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature by Philip GabrielDavinder L. Bhowmik
- MN 57:1 (2002) 117–19Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West: Psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics by Steve OdinJoseph S. O'Leary
- MN 57:1 (2002) 120–21Language Planning and Language Change in Japan by Tessa CarrollNanette Gottlieb
- MN 57:1 (2002) 122–23Tezuka Osamu: Figuren, Themen und Erzählstrukturen im Manga-Gesamtwerk by Susanne PhillippsMegumi Maderdonner
- MN 57:1 (2002) 124–26The Changing Face of Japanese Retail: Working in a Chainstore by Louella MatsunagaAviad Raz
- MN 57:1 (2002) 126–29Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan by Tom GillMatthew Marr
- MN 57:1 (2002) 129–32Closing the Shop: Information Cartels and Japan’s Mass Media by Laurie Anne FreemanVerena Blechinger
MN 56:4 (2001) 459–86In Praise of The Tale of GenjiAkiko Yosano, Translated by G. G. Rowley