Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 49:4 (1994) 455–69High’ versus ‘Low’: The Fude no Saga Controversy and Bakumatsu PoeticsRoger K. Thomas- MN 49:4 (1994) 471–87Japanese Shorthand and SokkibonJ. Scott Miller
- MN 49:4 (1994) 489–93String of Beads: Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi by Hiroaki SatoRoselee Bundy
- MN 49:4 (1994) 493–95Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryōjin Hishō of Twelfth-Century Japan by Yung-Hee KimMargaret H. Childs
- MN 49:4 (1994) 495–98Heart’s Flower: The Life and Poetry of Shinkei by Esperanza Ramirez-ChristensenLinda H. Chance
- MN 49:4 (1994) 498–501Literary Patronage in Late Medieval Japan by Steven CarterRobert N. Huey
- MN 49:4 (1994) 501–503The Fiction of Tokuda Shūsei and the Emergence of Japan’s New Middle Class by Richard TorranceJoel Cohn
- MN 49:4 (1994) 503–506Yoshiwara: The Glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan by Cecilia Segawa SeigleLawrence Rogers
- MN 49:4 (1994) 506–508The Autobiography of Eiichi Shibusawa: From Peasant to Entrepreneur by Teruko CraigGeorge M. Oshiro
- MN 49:4 (1994) 508–511Philosophie in Japan. Von den Anfängen bis zur Heian Zeit: Eine kritische Untersuchung by Gregor PaulJan Van Bragt
- MN 49:4 (1994) 511–514Situated Meaning: Inside and Outside in Japanese Self, Society, and Language by Jane M. Bachnik, Charles J. Quinn, Jr.Stephen P. Nussbaum
- MN 49:4 (1994) 514–516Exquisite Pursuits: Japanese Art in the Harry G. C. Packard Collection by Yoko Woodson, Richard T. MellottElizabeth ten Grotenhuis
- MN 49:4 (1994) 516–518Staying on the Line: Blue-Collar Women in Contemporary Japan by Glenda S. RobertsMary C. Brinton
- MN 49:4 (1994) 518–520Censored Japanese Serials of the Pre-1946 Period: A Checklist of the Microfilm Collections by Yoshiko YoshimuraYasuko Makino
- MN 49:4 (1994) 520–522Japanese Constitutional Law by Percy R. Luney, Jr., Kazuyuki TakahashiMalcolm Smith
- MN 49:4 (1994) 522–523Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits by Ian NishMichael Cooper
- MN 49:4 (1994) 524–529CorrespondenceMichiko Yusa and Pierre Lavelle
MN 49:3 (1994) 261–86Santai Waka: Six Poems in Three Modes (Part 2)Translated by Roselee Bundy- MN 49:3 (1994) 287–314Fantasies, Fairies, and Electric Dreams: Satō Haruo’s Critique of TaishōStephen Dodd
- MN 49:3 (1994) 315–29Yakaku Teikinshō: Secret Teachings of the Sesonji School of CalligraphyAlex Kerr and Gary DeCoker
- MN 49:3 (1994) 319–29Yakaku TeikinshōKoreyuki Fujiwara, Translated by Gary DeCoker and Alex Kerr
- MN 49:3 (1994) 331–51The Assassination of Henry HeuskenReinier H. Hesselink
- MN 49:3 (1994) 353–73Ōgai and the Problem of Fiction: Gan and Its AntecedentsStephen Snyder
- MN 49:3 (1994) 375–76Race and Migration in Imperial Japan by Michael WeinerDennis L. McNamara
- MN 49:3 (1994) 376–79How Policies Change: The Japanese Government and the Aging Society by John Creighton CampbellE. B. Keehn
- MN 49:3 (1994) 379–81Blueprint for a New Japan: The Rethinking of a Nation by Ichiro Ozawa, Louisa Rubinfien, Eric Gower, Jay RockefellerChalmers Johnson
- MN 49:3 (1994) 382–84Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America by Margaret LockSheila K. Johnson
- MN 49:3 (1994) 385–87European Studies on Ainu Language and Culture by Josef KreinerJohn C. Maher
- MN 49:3 (1994) 387–89School to Work Transition in Japan: An Ethnographic Study by Kaori OkanoWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 49:3 (1994) 389–90Arte Breve da Lingoa Iapoa by Ioam Rodriguez, Hino HiroshiMichael Cooper
MN 49:2 (1994) 139–65The Political Thought of Nishida KitarōPierre Lavelle- MN 49:2 (1994) 167–96Public Display and Changing Values: Early Meiji Exhibitions and Their PrecursorsPeter F. Kornicki
- MN 49:2 (1994) 197–227Santai Waka: Six Poems in Three Modes (Part 1)Translated by Roselee Bundy
- MN 49:2 (1994) 229–32Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century by Donald KeeneSonja Arntzen
- MN 49:2 (1994) 233–35Poèmes de Fujiwara no Michinaga, ministre à la cour de Hei.an (995–1018) by Francine HérailEileen Katō
- MN 49:2 (1994) 235–37Ono no Komachi: Poems, Stories, Nō Plays by Roy E. Teele, Nicholas J. Teele, H. Rebecca TeeleVirginia Skord Waters
- MN 49:2 (1994) 237–40Representations of Power: The Literary Politics of Medieval Japan by Michele MarraJoshua S. Mostow
- MN 49:2 (1994) 240–41Voyages en d’autres mondes: Récits japonais du XVIe siècle by Jacqueline Pigeot, Kosugi KeikoRoyall Tyler
- MN 49:2 (1994) 241–43Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees: A Masterpiece of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Puppet Theater by Stanleigh H. Jones, Jr.Drew Gerstle
- MN 49:2 (1994) 244–45Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections by Frederick Baekeland, Robert MoesStephen Addiss
- MN 49:2 (1994) 245–47Kimono: Fashioning Culture by Liza Crihfield DalbySharon Sadako Takeda
- MN 49:2 (1994) 247–49Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyAnn Waswo
- MN 49:2 (1994) 249–51Japan’s Political Marketplace by J. Mark Ramseyer, Frances McCall RosenbluthE. B. Keehn
- MN 49:2 (1994) 252–55Alms and Vagabonds: Buddhist Temples and Popular Patronage in Medieval Japan by Janet R. GoodwinIan Reader
- MN 49:2 (1994) 255–57Religion and Society in Modern Japan: Selected Readings by Mark R. Mullins, Shimazono Susumu, Paul L. SwansonCharles H. Hambrick
- MN 49:2 (1994) 258–59Matsuri: Festivals of a Japanese Town by Michael AshkenaziC. Scott Littleton
- MN 49:2 (1994) 259Corrigendum
MN 49:1 (1994) 1–29Hitachi no Kuni FudokiMark C. Funke