Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
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) 59–84Sex, Lies, and the Illustrated Scroll: The Dōjōji Engi EmakiVirginia Skord Waters
- MN 52:1 (1997) 75–84Dōjōji Engi EmakiTranslated by Virginia 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
- MN 52:1 (1997) 120–21Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity by Tomi SuzukiPhyllis Larson
- MN 52:1 (1997) 122–24The Blue-Eyed Tarōkaja: A Donald Keene Anthology by J. Thomas RimerChia-Ning Chang
- MN 52:1 (1997) 125–26Japan’s Name Culture: The Significance of Names in a Religious, Political and Social Context by Herbert PlutschowAlexander M. Kabanoff
- MN 52:1 (1997) 126–28Catalogue of pre-Meiji Japanese books and maps in public collections in the Netherlands by H. KerlenPeter F. Kornicki
- MN 52:1 (1997) 128–31The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan: The Lens within the Heart by Timon ScreechReinier H. Hesselink
- MN 52:1 (1997) 131–34The Constitutional Case Law of Japan, 1970 through 1990 by Lawrence W. Beer, Hiroshi ItoMichael K. Young
- MN 52:1 (1997) 134–36Re-Imaging Japanese Women by Anne E. ImamuraJanet Hunter
- MN 52:1 (1997) 136–39The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract by Akiko HashimotoSheila K. Johnson
- MN 52:1 (1997) 139–41Sir Harry Parkes: British Representative in Japan 1865–83 by Gordon DanielsIan Ruxton
- MN 52:1 (1997) 141–43The Gods Come Dancing: A Study of the Japanese Ritual Dance of Yamabushi Kagura by Irit AverbuchJoão Mira
MN 51:4 (1996) 407–29The Imperial Oath of April 1868: Ritual, Politics, and Power in the RestorationJohn Breen- MN 51:4 (1996) 431–60Kiyokata’s Asasuzu: The Emergence of the Jogakusei ImageMariko Inoue
- MN 51:4 (1996) 461–64The Role of Poetry in Classical Japanese Literature: A Code and Discursivity Analysis by Rein RaudRoselee Bundy
- MN 51:4 (1996) 464–66The Pursuit of Loneliness: Chinese and Japanese Nature Poetry in Medieval Japan, ca. 1050–1150 by Ivo SmitsRobert Borgen
- MN 51:4 (1996) 467–68Great Fool: Zen Master Ryōkan—Poems, Letters, and Other Writings by Ryūichi Abé, Peter HaskelRoger K. Thomas
- MN 51:4 (1996) 469–71The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity by Susan J. NapierPhyllis I. Lyons
- MN 51:4 (1996) 471–73Japanese Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyōka, Charles Shirō InouyeRoy Starrs
- MN 51:4 (1996) 473–76Literature of the Lost Home: Kobayashi Hideo—Literary Criticism, 1924–1939 by Paul AndererJoel Cohn