Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 51:3 (1996) 380–81The Lumber Industry in Early Modern Japan by Conrad TotmanPhilip C. Brown- MN 51:3 (1996) 382–83Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition by Laurence R. KominzStanleigh H. Jones
- MN 51:3 (1996) 383–86Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism by Bernard Faure, Phyllis BrooksSteven Heine
- MN 51:3 (1996) 386–87Shapers of Japanese Buddhism by Yusen Kashiwahara, Koyu Sonoda, Gaynor SekimoriPaul O. Ingram
- MN 51:3 (1996) 387–88A New Woman of Japan: A Political Biography of Katō Shidzue by Helen M. HopperLinda L. Johnson
- MN 51:3 (1996) 389–91Japanese Women: New Feminist Perspectives of the Past, Present and Future by Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow, Atsuko KamedaMerry I. White
- MN 51:3 (1996) 391–92Sociology and Society of Japan by Nozomu KawamuraWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 51:3 (1996) 392–94Kendō: Its Philosophy, History and Means to Personal Growth by Minoru KiyotaKarl F. Friday
- MN 51:3 (1996) 394–97Makiko’s Diary: A Merchant Wife in 1910 Kyoto by Nakano Makiko, Kazuko SmithHelen M. Hooper
- MN 51:3 (1996) 397–400Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film by Darrell William DavisBrian Lewis
- MN 51:3 (1996) 400–402Meiji Revisited: The Sites of Victorian Japan by Dallas FinnJohn Mock
- MN 51:3 (1996) 402–405A Poisonous Cocktail? Aum Shinrikyo’s Path to Violence by Ian Reader; The Cult at the End of the World. The Incredible Story of Aum by David E. Kaplan, Andrew Marshall; Holy Terror: Armageddon in Tokyo by D. W. BrackettRichard A. Gardner
MN 51:2 (1996) 148–51Bonen no Ki: A Record of My Twilight YearsŌe no Masafusa, Translated by Marian Ury and Robert Borgen- MN 51:2 (1996) 143–51Ōe no Masafusa and the Practice of Heian AutobiographyMarian Ury and Robert Borgen
- MN 51:2 (1996) 153–70Female Self-Writing: Takamure Itsue’s Hi no Kuni no Onna no NikkiRonald P. Loftus
- MN 51:2 (1996) 171–87Dodoitsubō Senka and the Yose of EdoGerald Groemer
- MN 51:2 (1996) 189–217The Way of Yin and Yang: A Tradition Revived, Sold, AdoptedLee A. Butler
- MN 51:2 (1996) 225–44The Whispering BambooTranslated by Frederick G. Kavanagh
- MN 51:2 (1996) 219–44An Errant Priest: Sasayaki TakeFrederick G. Kavanagh
- MN 51:2 (1996) 245–56Recent German Books on JapanCarl Steenstrup
- MN 51:2 (1996) 257–59Ikki: Social Conflict and Political Protest in Early Modern Japan by James W. WhiteAnne Walthall
- MN 51:2 (1996) 259–61Japan Encounters the Barbarian: Japanese Travellers in America and Europe by W. G. BeasleyRoy S. Hanashiro
- MN 51:2 (1996) 262–63Saigō Takamori: The Man Behind the Myth by Charles L. YatesSidney DeVere Brown
- MN 51:2 (1996) 263–65Principle, Praxis, and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan by Mark E. LincicomeDonald Roden
- MN 51:2 (1996) 265–68Wind in the Pines: Classic Writings of the Way of Tea as a Buddhist Path by Dennis HirotaTheodore M. Ludwig
- MN 51:2 (1996) 268–70The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro by Shūgō Asano, Timothy ClarkDonald Jenkins
- MN 51:2 (1996) 270–72Lacquerware from the Weston Collection: A Selection of Inro and Boxes by Julia MeechHugh Wylie
- MN 51:2 (1996) 273–75Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan by Marilyn IvyEyal Ben-Ari
- MN 51:2 (1996) 276–77Textiles and Industrial Transition in Japan by Dennis L. McNamaraBarbara Molony
MN 51:1 (1996) 8–15Selections from Tandai Shōshin RokuAkinari Ueda, Translated by Susanna Fessler- MN 51:1 (1996) 1–15The Nature of the Kami: Ueda Akinari and Tandai Shōshin RokuSusanna Fessler
- MN 51:1 (1996) 17–52The Visions of a Creative Artist: Zenchiku’s Rokurin Ichiro Treatises (Part 4)Zenchiku, Translated by Mark J. Nearman
- MN 51:1 (1996) 53–79In Pursuit of Himiko: Postwar Archaeology and the Location of YamataiWalter Edwards
- MN 51:1 (1996) 100–105The Principle of the New World Order: Sekai Shin-Chitsujo no GenriNishida Kitarō, Translated by Yoko Arisaka
- MN 51:1 (1996) 81–105The Nishida Enigma: ‘The Principle of the New World Order’Yoko Arisaka
- MN 51:1 (1996) 107–20Japan in 1995
- MN 51:1 (1996) 121–23Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos VaporisLuke S. Roberts
- MN 51:1 (1996) 123–25Motoori Norinaga’s ‘The Two Shrines of Ise: An Essay of Split Bamboo’ by Mark TeeuwenJohn Allen Tucker
- MN 51:1 (1996) 125–27Learning To Be Modern: Japanese Political Discourse on Education by Byron K. MarshallEdward R. Beauchamp
- MN 51:1 (1996) 128–30Neighborhood and Nation in Tokyo, 1905–1937 by Sally Ann HastingsStephen S. Large
- MN 51:1 (1996) 130–33Japan in Traditional and Postmodern Perspectives by Charles Weihsun Fu, Steven HeineJamie Hubbard
- MN 51:1 (1996) 134–36The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono by Joan B. Mirviss, John T. CarpenterMatthi Forrer
- MN 51:1 (1996) 136–39Ceremony and Ritual in Japan: Religious Practices in an Industralized Society by Jan van Bremen, D. P. MartinezDavid W. Plath
- MN 51:1 (1996) 139–41Japanese Workers in Protest: An Ethnography of Consciousness and Experience by Christena L. TurnerAndrew Gordon
MN 50:4 (1995) 433–84The Shogun’s ‘Painting Match’Karen L. Brock- MN 50:4 (1995) 485–521The Visions of a Creative Artist: Zenchiku’s Rokurin Ichiro Treatises (Part 3)Zenchiku, Translated by Mark J. Nearman
- MN 50:4 (1995) 523–528Beauty and Illusion: Tanizaki in VenicePaul McCarthy
- MN 50:4 (1995) 529–535A Poetics of Pure ArtLeith Morton