Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 53:4 (1998) 580–582The Stars Who Created Kabuki: Their Lives, Loves and Legacy by Laurence R. KominzLinda C. Ehrlich- MN 53:4 (1998) 582–585The Folk Performing Arts: Traditional Culture in Contemporary Japan by Barbara E. ThornburyJane Marie Law
- MN 53:4 (1998) 585–587Arnold Fancks “Die Tochter des Samurai”: Nationalsozialistische Propaganda und Japanische Filmpolitik by Janine HansenGerhard Krebs
- MN 53:4 (1998) 587–589The Japanese Way of Tea: From Its Origins in China to Sen Rikyū by Sen Sōshitsu XV, V. Dixon MorrisLee A. Butler
- MN 53:4 (1998) 590Errata
MN 53:3 (1998) 303–34Trade, Money, and Merchants in Nara JapanWilliam Wayne Farris- MN 53:3 (1998) 335–58Tokugawa Translations of Dutch Legal TextsF. B. Verwayen
- MN 53:3 (1998) 359–73From Grand Narrative to YakisobaF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 53:3 (1998) 375–81Medieval and Early Modern Shinto ReconsideredYūichirō Tajiri
- MN 53:3 (1998) 383–86Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry by Edward KamensJoshua S. Mostow
- MN 53:3 (1998) 386–88The Kagero Diary: A Woman’s Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan by Sonja ArntzenLynne K. Miyake
- MN 53:3 (1998) 388–92Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) by Fujitsu Social Science Laboratory Limited; Heike Monogatari (The Tale of Heike) by Fujitsu Social Science Laboratory LimitedAileen Gatten
- MN 53:3 (1998) 392–95Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan by Dennis Washburn, Alan TansmanJoel Cohn
- MN 53:3 (1998) 395–98The Origins of Japan’s Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century by Jeffrey P. MassSuzanne Gay
- MN 53:3 (1998) 398–400Proliferating Talent: Essays on Politics, Thought, and Education in the Meiji Era by Motoyama Yukihiko, J. S. A. Elisonas, Richard RubingerNeil L. Waters
- MN 53:3 (1998) 400–402Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism 1900–1937 by Vera MackieBarbara Molony
- MN 53:3 (1998) 402–404Society and State in Interwar Japan by Elise K. TiptonWilliam Miles Fletcher III
- MN 53:3 (1998) 405–409The Pure Land Tradition: History and Development by James Foard, Michael Solomon, Richard K. Payne; The Collected Works of Shinran by Dennis Hirota, Hisao Inagaki, Michio Tokunaga, Ryushin Uryuzu; Popular Buddhism in Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion and Culture. by Esben Andreasen; Interpreting Amida: History and Orientalism in the Study of Pure Land Buddhism. by Galen AmstutzRichard A. Gardner
- MN 53:3 (1998) 409–11The Politics of Reclusion: Painting and Power in Momoyama Japan by Kendall H. BrownJoseph D. Parker
- MN 53:3 (1998) 411–15The Nasser D. Khalili Collection: Decorative Arts of Meiji Japan by Oliver Impey, Malcolm Fairley; Meiji no Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan; Masterpieces by Shibata Zeshin by Joe EarleHugh Wylie
- MN 53:3 (1998) 416–18An Introduction to Japanese Society by Yoshio SugimotoDavid H. Slater
- MN 53:3 (1998) 419–20Japan’s Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity by Michael WeinerJohn Lie
- MN 53:3 (1998) 421–22The Japanese Family System in Transition: A Sociological Analysis of Family Change in Postwar Japan by Emiko OchiaiRalph Lützeler
- MN 53:3 (1998) 423–25Packaged Japaneseness: Weddings, Business and Brides by Ofra Goldstein-GidoniTom Gill
MN 53:2 (1998) 153–95Fact, Fiction, and Heian Literary Prose: Epistolary Narration in Tōnomine Shōshō MonogatariAileen Gatten- MN 53:2 (1998) 197–223Abandoned Fields: Negotiating Taxes in the Bakufu DomainPatricia Sippel
- MN 53:2 (1998) 225–35Dispossessed Melodies: Recordings of the Kawakami Theater TroupeJ. Scott Miller
- MN 53:2 (1998) 237–55Studies of Japan, Area Studies, and the Challenges of Social TheoryIan Reader
- MN 53:2 (1998) 257–63The Context of Everyday ThingsOsamu Saitō
- MN 53:2 (1998) 265–67The Distant Isle: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Robert H. Brower by Thomas Hare, Robert Borgen, Sharalyn OrbaughRobert N. Huey
- MN 53:2 (1998) 268–70Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image by Joshua S. MostowJohn T. Carpenter
- MN 53:2 (1998) 271–73Be a Woman: Hayashi Fumiko and Modern Japanese Women’s Literature by Joan E. EricsonReiko Abe Auestad
- MN 53:2 (1998) 273–76The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap by Alan MacfarlaneKären Wigen
- MN 53:2 (1998) 276–80Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan by Gary P. LeuppGregory M. Pflugfelder
- MN 53:2 (1998) 280–83Die Politik der Sexualwissenschaft: Zur Produktion und Popularisierung sexologischen Wissens in Japan 1908–1941 by Sabine FrühstückUlrike Wöhr
- MN 53:2 (1998) 284–85Le Vase de béryl: Études sur le Japon et la Chine en hommage à Bernard Frank by Jacqueline Pigeot, Hartmut O. RotermundJacques Bésineau
- MN 53:2 (1998) 285–88Nō and Kyōgen in the Contemporary World by James R. BrandonJanet E. Goff
- MN 53:2 (1998) 288–90Puppets of Nostalgia: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Japanese Awaji Ningyō Tradition by Jane Marie LawVirginia Skord Waters
- MN 53:2 (1998) 290–92Folk Art Potters of Japan: Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics by Brian MoeranJohn Clammer
- MN 53:2 (1998) 292–94De la création des jardins: Traduction du Sakutei-ki by Michel Vieillard-BaronWybe Kuitert
- MN 53:2 (1998) 295–96The Confusion Era: Art and Culture of Japan during the Allied Occupation, 1945–1952 by Mark SandlerTom Havens
- MN 53:2 (1998) 296–98Ozu’s Tokyo Story by David DesserCarole Cavanaugh
- MN 53:2 (1998) 298–300From My Grandmother’s Bedside by Norma FieldJ. Thomas Rimer
MN 53:1 (1998) 1–11Sixty Monumental YearsMichael Cooper- MN 53:1 (1998) 13–43Ise Monogatari Zuinō: An Annotated TranslationTranslated by Susan Blakeley Klein
- MN 53:1 (1998) 45–71Philosophy and Inflation: Miki Kiyoshi in Weimar Germany, 1922–1924Michiko Yusa
- MN 53:1 (1998) 73–104Digging for Edo: Archaeology and Japan’s Premodern Urban PastConstantine Nomikos Vaporis
- MN 53:1 (1998) 105–108Naming Properties: Nominal Reference in Travel Writings by Bashō and Sora, Johnson and Boswell by Earl MinerDavid Landis Barnhill