Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 53:1 (1998) 108–11Partings at Dawn: An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literature by Stephen D. MillerRichard Torrance- MN 53:1 (1998) 111–14Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600–1868 by Nishiyama Matsunosuke, Gerald GroemerConstantine Nomikos Vaporis
- MN 53:1 (1998) 114–16Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan by James L. HuffmanTakashi Fujitani
- MN 53:1 (1998) 117–19The Birth of Japan’s Postwar Constitution by Koseki Shōichi, Ray A. MooreKyoko Inoue
- MN 53:1 (1998) 120–22Kojiki-den: Book 1 by Ann WehmeyerJohn R. Bentley
- MN 53:1 (1998) 122–24Reflections on Japanese Taste: The Structure of Iki by Kuki Shūzō, John Clark, Sakoku MatsuiRobert W. Adams
- MN 53:1 (1998) 124–27Zen and Comparative Studies by Masao Abe, Stephen HeineRobert E. Carter
- MN 53:1 (1998) 127–30Glaube in Japan: Alexandro Valignanos Katechismus, seine moraltheologischen Aussagen im japanischen Kontext by Joseph B. MühlbergerJoseph F. Moran
- MN 53:1 (1998) 130–35A History of Japanese Koto Music and Ziuta by Kikkawa Eisi [Eishi], Leonard Holvik; Women’s Gidayū and the Japanese Theatre Tradition by A. Kimi CoaldrakeGerald Groemer
- MN 53:1 (1998) 135–39Papers on the History of Industry and Technology of Japan. Vol. 1: From the Ritsuryō-System to the Early Meiji-Period by Erich Pauer; Vol. 2: From the Meiji-Period to Postwar Japan by Erich Pauer; Vol. 3: Development of the Japanese Glass Industry by Erich Pauer, Sakata HironobuDavid G. Wittner
- MN 53:1 (1998) 139–41Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology by Jinnai Hidenobu, Kimiko NishimuraTheodore C. Bestor
- MN 53:1 (1998) 142–44Japan: The Childless Society? The Crisis of Motherhood by Muriel JolivetHarald Fuess
- MN 53:1 (1998) 144–47Japans Neue Linke: Soziale Bewegung und ausserparlamentarische Opposition, 1957–1994 by Claudia DerichsBenjamin D. Middleton
- MN 53:1 (1998) 147–49The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture by Mark SchillingDoug Slaymaker
MN 52:4 (1997) 441–65Allegories of Desire: Poetry and Eroticism in Ise Monogatari ZuinōSusan Blakeley Klein- MN 52:4 (1997) 467–521Saigyō’s Traveling Tale: A Translation of Saigyō MonogatariGustav Heldt
- MN 52:4 (1997) 485–521Saigyō MonogatariSaigyō, Translated by Gustav Heldt
- MN 52:4 (1997) 523–540Japanese Rule in Korea after the March First Uprising: Governor General Hasegawa’s RecommendationsRichard Devine
- MN 52:4 (1997) 541–546The Taitokuin MausoleumWilliam H. Coaldrake
- MN 52:4 (1997) 547–549Regent Redux: A Life of the Statesman-Scholar Ichijō Kaneyoshi by Steven D. CarterRoselee Bundy
- MN 52:4 (1997) 549–552Questions de Poétique japonaise by Jacqueline PigeotEileen Katō
- MN 52:4 (1997) 552–555Rituals of Self-Revelation: Shishōsetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-Cultural Phenomenon by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitJanet A. Walker
- MN 52:4 (1997) 555–557Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life by Sheldon GaronAnn Waswo
- MN 52:4 (1997) 557–560Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan: Kuki Shūzō and the Rise of National Aesthetics by Leslie PincusMeera S. Viswanathan
- MN 52:4 (1997) 560–563Watsuji Tetsurō’s Rinrigaku: Ethics in Japan by Watsuji Tetsurō, Yamamoto Seisaku, Robert E. CarterJohn C. Maraldo
- MN 52:4 (1997) 563–566Originary Enlightenment: Tendai Hongaku Doctrine and Japanese Buddhism by Ruben L. F. HabitoJacqueline Stone
- MN 52:4 (1997) 566–568Letters of Nichiren by Philip B. Yampolsky, Burton WatsonGeorge J. Tanabe
- MN 52:4 (1997) 568–570Architecture and Authority in Japan by William H. CoaldrakeJohanne Grenier
- MN 52:4 (1997) 571–573The Voyage of Contemporary Japanese Theater by Senda Akihiko, J. Thomas RimerMari Boyd
- MN 52:4 (1997) 573–575Political Bribery in Japan by Richard H. MitchellJack Lewis
- MN 52:4 (1997) 575–578Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan: Reading Between the Lines by J. Marshall UngerNanette Gottlieb
- MN 52:4 (1997) 578–579An Empire of Schools: Japan’s Universities and the Molding of a National Power Elite by Robert L. CuttsRichard H. Mitchell
- MN 52:4 (1997) 580–582San’ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo by Edward FowlerJeffrey E. Hanes
- MN 52:4 (1997) 582–585Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern by Donald Denoon, Mark Hudson, Gavan McCormack, Tessa Morris-SuzukiWalter Edwards
- MN 52:4 (1997) 585–588Living With the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age by Laura Hein, Mark SeldenFranziska Seraphim
MN 52:3 (1997) 295–325Poetry, Sake, and Acrimony: Arakida Hisaoyu and the Kokugaku MovementMark Teeuwen- MN 52:3 (1997) 327–56“Bush Clover and Moon”: A Relational Reading of Oku no HosomichiChristine Murasaki Millett
- MN 52:3 (1997) 357–80Severing the Karmic Ties that Bind: The “Divorce Temple” MantokujiDiana E. Wright
- MN 52:3 (1997) 381–97A Golden Age of Fatherhood? Parent-Child Relations in Japanese HistoriographyHarald Fuess
- MN 52:3 (1997) 399–401A Woman’s Weapon: Spirit Possession in the Tale of Genji by Doris G. BargenJohn R. Wallace
- MN 52:3 (1997) 402–404Le kabuki devant la modernité (1870–1930) by Jean-Jacques TschudinSonja Arntzen
- MN 52:3 (1997) 404–406Odd Markets in Japanese History: Law and Economic Growth by J. Mark RamseyerDavid L. Howell
- MN 52:3 (1997) 407–408Legends of the Samurai by Hiroaki SatoG. Cameron Hurst
- MN 52:3 (1997) 408–10Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits. Volume 2 by Ian NishIan Ruxton
- MN 52:3 (1997) 410–13Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School, and the Question of Nationalism by James W. Heisig, John C. MaraldoThomas P. Kasulis
- MN 52:3 (1997) 413–15Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan by J. Victor KoschmannSteven Heine
- MN 52:3 (1997) 415–17Matsuri: The Festivals of Japan by Herbert Plutschow, P. G. O’NeillMichael Ashkenazi
- MN 52:3 (1997) 418–19The Beginning of Heaven and Earth: The Sacred Book of Japan’s Hidden Christians by Christal WhelanStephen Turnbull