Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 45:4 (1990) 501–504Japanese Models of Conflict Resolution by S. N. Eisenstadt, Eyal Ben-AriPatricia G. Steinhoff- MN 45:4 (1990) 504–506From Paddy Field to Ski Slope: The Revitalisation of Tradition in Japanese Village Life by Okpyo MoonHarumi Befu
- MN 45:4 (1990) 506–507Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture by Richard Gid Powers, Katō HidetoshiWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 45:4 (1990) 507–508Japan: World Bibliographical Series, Volume 103 by Frank Joseph ShulmanJohn J. Stephan
MN 45:3 (1990) 253–84Arts of War in Times of Peace (Part 1): Archery in Honchō Bugei ShōdenJohn M. Rogers- MN 45:3 (1990) 261–84Honchō Bugei Shōden (Part 1)Hinatsu Shigetaka, Translated by John M. Rogers
- MN 45:3 (1990) 285–306Tōkoku at MatsushimaMichael C. Brownstein
- MN 45:3 (1990) 303–306Reading Bashō at Matsushima: Matsushima ni oite Bashō-ō wo YomuTōkoku Kitamura, Translated by Michael C. Brownstein
- MN 45:3 (1990) 307–37The Enthronement Rites: The Text of Engishiki, 927Translated by Felicia Gressitt Bock
- MN 45:3 (1990) 339–52Toward a History of Twentieth-Century JapanSheldon Garon
- MN 45:3 (1990) 353–55Tales of Heichū by Susan Downing VideenVirginia Skord Waters
- MN 45:3 (1990) 355–57Waiting for the Wind: Thirty-Six Poets of Japan’s Late Medieval Age by Steven D. CarterPhillip T. Harries
- MN 45:3 (1990) 357–60Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries by Donald KeeneMartin Collcutt
- MN 45:3 (1990) 360–63Kyōgoku Tamekane: Poetry and Politics in Late Kamakura Japan by Robert N. HueySteven D. Carter
- MN 45:3 (1990) 363–6518th Century Japan: Culture and Society by C. Andrew GerstlePaul Gordon Schalow
- MN 45:3 (1990) 365–66Postwar Japanese Women Writers: An Up-to-date Bibliography with Biographical Sketches by Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck, Søren EgerodRebecca Copeland
- MN 45:3 (1990) 367–69Hokusai: One Hundred Poets by Peter MorseSusan Matisoff
- MN 45:3 (1990) 369–72Le commerce extérieur du Japon: Des origines au XVIe siècle by Charlotte von VerschuerAndrew Edmund Goble
- MN 45:3 (1990) 372–75Remembering Paradise: Nativism and Nostalgia in Eighteenth-Century Japan by Peter NoscoBob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- MN 45:3 (1990) 375–76The Future Japan by Tokutomi Sohō, Vinh Sinh, Matsuzawa Hiroaki, Nicholas WickendenThomas R. H. Havens
- MN 45:3 (1990) 376–78The Clash of Interests: The Transformation of Japan in 1861–1881 in the Eyes of the Local Anglo-Saxon Press by Olavi K. Fält, Malcolm HicksHugh Cortazzi
- MN 45:3 (1990) 378–81Foreign Employees in Nineteenth Century Japan by Edward R. Beauchamp, Akira IriyeJames L. Huffman
- MN 45:3 (1990) 381–84Pearl Harbor Reexamined: Prologue to the Pacific War by Hilary Conroy, Harry WrayJohn Hunter Boyle
- MN 45:3 (1990) 384–86Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu by Miriam SilverbergWilliam Miles Fletcher III
- MN 45:3 (1990) 386–88Masterworks of the Nō Theater by Kenneth YasudaRebecca Teele
- MN 45:3 (1990) 388–89Butoh: Shades of Darkness by Jean Viala, Nourit Masson-SekineDavid G. Goodman
- MN 45:3 (1990) 389–90Verzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Japan-Schrifttums 1980–1987 by Susanne Formanek, Peter GetreuerNorbert R. Adami
MN 45:2 (1990) 127–55Edo in 1868: The View from BelowM. William Steele- MN 45:2 (1990) 157–88Poetic Apprenticeship: Fujiwara Teika’s Shogaku HyakushuRoselee Bundy
- MN 45:2 (1990) 189–205The Japonian Charters: The English and Dutch ShuinjōDerek Massarella and Izumi K. Tytler
- MN 45:2 (1990) 207–28Meiji in the Rear-View Mirror: Top Down vs. Bottom Up HistoryF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 45:2 (1990) 229–31The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami: A Comparative Study of Greek Tragedy and Nō by Mae J. SmethurstMichiko Yusa
- MN 45:2 (1990) 231–34Five Plays of Kishida Kunio by David G. Goodman, Richard McKinnon, J. Thomas RimerTed T. Takaya
- MN 45:2 (1990) 234–36Britain’s Encounter with Meiji Japan, 1868–1912 by Olive ChecklandJanet Hunter
- MN 45:2 (1990) 236–39Plain Words on the Pure Land Way: Sayings of the Wandering Monks of Medieval Japan. A Translation of Ichigon Hōdan by Dennis HirotaRobert E. Morrell
- MN 45:2 (1990) 239–42Shintō and the State, 1868–1988 by Helen HardacreDavid A. Titus
- MN 45:2 (1990) 242–45The Formation of Science in Japan: Building a Research Tradition by James R. BartholomewKenkichiro Koizumi
- MN 45:2 (1990) 245–48Ten Great Educators of Modern Japan: A Japanese Perspective by Benjamin C. DukeVictor Kobayashi
- MN 45:2 (1990) 248–51International Studies in Japan: A Bibliographic Guide. by Sadao Asada; Japan and the World, 1853–1952: A Bibliographic Guide to Japanese Scholarship in Foreign Relations by Sadao AsadaKimitada I. Miwa
MN 45:1 (1990) 1–26The Consort and the Warrior: Yōkihi MonogatariMasako Nakagawa Graham- MN 45:1 (1990) 7–26Yōkihi MonogatariTranslated by Masako Nakagawa Graham
- MN 45:1 (1990) 27–38The Great Feast of the EnthronementFelicia Gressitt Bock
- MN 45:1 (1990) 39–74Ghostwriters and Literary Haunts: Subordinating Ethics to Art in Ugetsu MonogatariDennis Washburn
- MN 45:1 (1990) 75–85Saddle Bows and Rump Plumes: More on the Fujinoki TombJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.
- MN 45:1 (1990) 87–94Cultural Survey, 1989
- MN 45:1 (1990) 95–98The Tale of the Heike by Helen Craig McCulloughCarol Hochstedler
- MN 45:1 (1990) 98–100Divided Self: A Biography of Arishima Takeo by Leith MortonPaul Anderer
- MN 45:1 (1990) 100–103The Sting of Life: Four Contemporary Japanese Novelists by Van C. GesselChia-Ning Chang