Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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
- MN 52:3 (1997) 419–21A Popular Dictionary of Shintō by Brian BockingKaren A. Smyers
- MN 52:3 (1997) 421–24Prehistoric Japan: New Perspectives on Insular East Asia by Keiji InamuraGina L. Barnes
- MN 52:3 (1997) 424–26The Early Porcelain Kilns of Japan: Arita in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century by Oliver ImpeyRichard L. Wilson
- MN 52:3 (1997) 427–29A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and Markets by Brian MoeranJohn L. McCreery
- MN 52:3 (1997) 429–32Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture by John Whittier TreatNelson H. H. Graburn
- MN 52:3 (1997) 432–35Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism by Sandra BuckleyKathleen Uno
- MN 52:3 (1997) 436–38Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School through the Eyes of an American Anthropologist and Her Children. by Gail R. BenjaminCatherine Lewis
MN 52:2 (1997) 145–80Embodiment/Disembodiment: Japanese Painting during the Fifteen-Year WarBert Winther-Tamaki- MN 52:2 (1997) 181–99Tarrying with the Negative: Aesthetic Vision in Murasaki and MishimaJohn R. Wallace
- MN 52:2 (1997) 201–34Crossed Paths: Zeami’s Transmission to ZenchikuNoel John Pinnington
- MN 52:2 (1997) 235–57Attaining Landscapes in the Mind: Nature Poetry and Painting in Gozan ZenJoseph D. Parker
- MN 52:2 (1997) 259–61Takeuchi Rizō, 1907–1997: In MemoriamJeffrey P. Mass
- MN 52:2 (1997) 263–65Unforgotten Dreams: Poems by the Zen Monk Shōtetsu by Steven D. CarterAileen Gatten
- MN 52:2 (1997) 266–68A Healing Family by Ōe Kenzaburō, Stephen SnyderMatthew Mizenko
- MN 52:2 (1997) 268–71Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan by T. FujitaniJohn Breen
- MN 52:2 (1997) 271–74Tokugawa Confucian Education: The Kangien Academy of Hirose Tansō (1782–1856) by Marleen KasselDe-min Tao
- MN 52:2 (1997) 274–76The Moral and Political Naturalism of Baron Katō Hiroyuki by Winston DavisRobert E. Carter
- MN 52:2 (1997) 276–79Die Transmoderne: Eine kulturkritische Diskussion im Japan der Kreigszeit by Detlef Bauer; Überwindung der Moderne? Japan am Ende des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitJoseph S. O'Leary
- MN 52:2 (1997) 280–83Japan and Christianity: Impacts and Responses by John Breen, Mark WilliamsF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 52:2 (1997) 283–86Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan by Helen HardacreRichard A. Gardner
- MN 52:2 (1997) 286–89Nihonga, Transcending the Past: Japanese-Style Painting, 1868–1968 by Ellen P. Conant, Steven D. Owyoung, J. Thomas RimerPatricia Fister
- MN 52:2 (1997) 289–92North Koreans in Japan: Language, Ideology, and Identity by Sonia RyangJohn Lie
- MN 52:2 (1997) 292–94The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan by William JohnstonPaul Weindling
MN 52:1 (1997) 1–34Tokugawa Authority and Chinese Exemplars: The Teikan Zusetsu Murals of Nagoya CastleKaren M. Gerhart- MN 52:1 (1997) 35–58Dissent from Within: Hasegawa Nyozekan, Liberal Critic of FascismMary L. Hanneman
- MN 52:1 (1997) 75–84Dōjōji Engi EmakiTranslated by Virginia Skord Waters
- MN 52:1 (1997) 59–84Sex, Lies, and the Illustrated Scroll: The Dōjōji Engi EmakiVirginia Skord Waters
- MN 52:1 (1997) 85–102Obama: The Rise and Decline of a SeaportIsao Soranaka
- MN 52:1 (1997) 103–16Japan in 1996
- MN 52:1 (1997) 117–20Ideology and Narrative in Modern Japanese Literature by Fuminobu MurakamiRichard Torrance