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MN 46:4 (1991) 545–548Self Portraits: Tales from the life of Japan’s great decadent romantic, Osamu Dazai by Ralph F. McCarthyJoel Cohn- MN 46:4 (1991) 548–550Language and the Modern State: The Reform of Written Japanese by Nanette TwineJ. Marshall Unger
- MN 46:4 (1991) 550–552The Six National Histories of Japan by Sakamoto Tarō, John S. BrownleeKarl F. Friday
- MN 46:4 (1991) 552–554The Deshima Dagregisters: Their Original Table of Contents, Vol. III, 1700–1710 by Paul van der Velde, Ton Vermeulen; Vol IV, 1710–1720 and Vol V, 1720–1730 by Paul van der VeldeDerek Massarella
- MN 46:4 (1991) 554–556Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The Life and Thought of Kaibara Ekken (1630–1714) by Mary Evelyn TuckerKate Wildman-Nakai
- MN 46:4 (1991) 556–557Tantric Art and Meditation: The Tendai Tradition by Michael SasoPaul L. Swanson
- MN 46:4 (1991) 557–559Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan: The Invention of a Tradition by W. Dean KinzleyStephen S. Large
- MN 46:4 (1991) 559–562Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan by Andrew GordonAndrew E. Barshay
- MN 46:4 (1991) 562–564Japanese Part-Time Farming: Evolution and Impacts by Raymond Adelard Jussaume, Jr.Penelope Francks
- MN 46:4 (1991) 564–566Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan by Ikuya SatoWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 46:4 (1991) 567–569Japan’s ‘International Youth’: The Emergence of a New Class of Schoolchildren by Roger GoodmanJames J. Shields, Jr.
- MN 46:4 (1991) 569–572The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism by Nishitani Keiji, Graham Parkes, Setsuko Aihara; The Religious Philosophy of Nishitani Keiji: Encounter with Emptiness by Taitetsu UnnoJoseph S. O'Leary
- MN 46:4 (1991) 572–574Nishida Kitarō by Nishitani Keiji, Yamamoto Seisaku, James W. HeisigMichiko Yusa
- MN 46:4 (1991) 574–577The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa by Stephen PrinceJoanne R. Bernardi
- MN 46:4 (1991) 578Corrigendum
MN 46:3 (1991) 275–91Takamura MonogatariWard Geddes- MN 46:3 (1991) 280–91Takamura Monogatari: The Tale of TakamuraTranslated by Ward Geddes
- MN 46:3 (1991) 293–327Engrafted System: Mori Arinori’s Representation ProposalsReinhard Zöllner
- MN 46:3 (1991) 307–27On a Representative System of Government for JapanMori Arinori, Translated by Reinhard Zöllner
- MN 46:3 (1991) 329–47In My Image: The Ichiji Kinrin Statue at ChūsonjiMimi Hall Yiengpruksawan
- MN 46:3 (1991) 349–68Emperor Hirohito and Early Shōwa JapanStephen S. Large
- MN 46:3 (1991) 369–72Classical Japanese Prose: An Anthology by Helen Craig McCulloughAileen Gatten
- MN 46:3 (1991) 372–75The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess: Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashū by Edward KamensSonja Arntzen
- MN 46:3 (1991) 375–78Chaos and Cosmos: Ritual in Early and Medieval Japanese Literature by Herbert E. PlutschowGary L. Ebersole
- MN 46:3 (1991) 378–81Chikuma River Sketches by Shimazaki Tōson, William E. NaffCharles Shirō Inouye
- MN 46:3 (1991) 381–84A History of Writing in Japan by Christopher SeeleyJ. Marshall Unger
- MN 46:3 (1991) 384–85Eine schwierige Nachbarschaft: Die Geschichte der russisch-japanischen Beziehungen. Volume 1, Von den Anfängen bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts by Norbert R. AdamiJohn J. Stephan
- MN 46:3 (1991) 386–88The Emperor System in Modern Japan. Acta Asiatica, No. 59 by Banno JunjiStephen S. Large
- MN 46:3 (1991) 388–90Japan’s Southward Advance and Australia: From the Sixteenth Century to World War II by Henry P. FreiJ. J. Eddy
- MN 46:3 (1991) 390–92The Japanese Police State: The Tokkō in Interwar Japan by Elise K. TiptonRichard H. Mitchell
- MN 46:3 (1991) 392–95MacArthur’s Japanese Constitution: A Linguistic and Cultural Study of Its Making by Kyoko InoueThomas W. Burkman
- MN 46:3 (1991) 395–98Zen Buddhism: A History by Heinrich Dumoulin, James W. Heisig, Paul Knitter. Volume 1: India and China; Volume 2: JapanRobert B. Zeuschner
- MN 46:3 (1991) 398–401Tao-sheng’s Commentary on the Lotus Sutra by Young-ho KimWilliam E. Deal
- MN 46:3 (1991) 401–403Selected Writings of Nichiren by Burton Watson, Philip B. YampolskyRichard K. Payne
- MN 46:3 (1991) 403–405The True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way: A Translation of Shinran’s Kyōgyōshinshō, Volume IV by Yoshifumi UedaRoger J. Corless
- MN 46:3 (1991) 406–408The Way of the Japanese Carpenter: Tools and Japanese Architecture by William H. CoaldrakeJordan Sand
- MN 46:3 (1991) 408–11Rakugo: The Popular Narrative Art of Japan by Heinz Morioka, Miyoko SasakiEdward Fowler
- MN 46:3 (1991) 411–14Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan by Susan J. PharrEllis S. Krauss
- MN 46:3 (1991) 415–17Education Reform in Japan: A Case of Immobilist Politics by Leonard James SchoppaEdward R. Beauchamp
- MN 46:3 (1991) 417–19Jinsei Annai, ‘Life’s Guide’: Glimpses of Japan Through a Popular Advice Column by John A. McKinstry, Asako Nakajima McKinstryMichael Cooper
- MN 46:3 (1991) 420–21CorrespondenceHerbert Plutschow
MN 46:2 (1991) 147–71Twin Blossoms on a Single Branch: The Cycle of Retribution in OnnamenDoris G. Bargen- MN 46:2 (1991) 173–202Arts of War in Times of Peace (Part 3): Swordsmanship in Honchō Bugei Shōden, Chapter 6John M. Rogers
- MN 46:2 (1991) 179–202Chapter Six: SwordsmanshipHinatsu Shigetaka, Translated by John M. Rogers
- MN 46:2 (1991) 203–209Nishida and the Question of NationalismMichiko Yusa
- MN 46:2 (1991) 211–35Yoshinogari: A Yayoi Settlement in Northern KyushuGina L. Barnes and Mark J. Hudson
- MN 46:2 (1991) 237–52The Middle Ages Survey’dCarl Steenstrup
- MN 46:2 (1991) 253–55Kanshi: The Poetry of Ishikawa Jōzan and Other Edo-period Poets by Burton WatsonMarian Ury