Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 42:3 (1987) 359–62Epidemics and Mortality in Early Modern Japan by Ann Bowman JannettaWilliam Wayne Farris- MN 42:3 (1987) 362–63Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan: The New Theses of 1825 by Bob Tadashi WakabayashiGrant K. Goodman
- MN 42:3 (1987) 364–66Agricultural Development and Tenancy Disputes in Japan, 1870 to 1940 by Richard J. SmethurstAnn Waswo
- MN 42:3 (1987) 367–69Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan by Germaine A. HostonThomas R. H. Havens
- MN 42:3 (1987) 369–71Tokutomi Sohō (1863–1957): The Later Career by Sinh VinhJames L. Huffman
- MN 42:3 (1987) 371–74Einführung in das Studium der japanischen Geschichte by Hans Adalbert DettmerCarl Steenstrup
- MN 42:3 (1987) 375–77Images of Japanese Society: A Study in the Structure of Social Reality by Ross Mouer, Yoshio SugimotoMiriam Silverberg
- MN 42:3 (1987) 377–79Educational Policies in Crisis: Japanese and American Perspectives by William K. Cummings, Edward R. Beauchamp, Shogo Ichikawa, Victor N. Kobayashi, Morikazu UshiogiH. J. Jones
- MN 42:3 (1987) 379–81Shōbōgenzō: Zen Essays by Dōgen by Thomas ClearyRuben L. F. Habito
- MN 42:3 (1987) 381–83Death Was His Kōan: The Samurai-Zen of Suzuki Shōsan by Winston L. KingPaul B. Watt
- MN 42:3 (1987) 384–86A Zen Life: D. T. Suzuki Remembered by Masao Abe, Francis HaarJohn C. Maraldo
- MN 42:3 (1987) 386–88The Great Eastern Temple: Treasures of Japanese Buddhist Art from Tōdai-Ji by Yutaka Mino, John M. Rosenfield, William H. Coaldrake, Samuel C. Morse, Christine M. E. GuthWilla Jane Tanabe
- MN 42:3 (1987) 388–90Wenceslau de Moraes (1854–1929) und Japan: Eine Untersuchung zur Selbstdarstellung in der exotischen Literatur des Fin de Siècle in Portugal by Helmut FeldmannEngelbert Jorissen
- MN 42:3 (1987) 390Erratum
MN 42:2 (1987) 115–55The Mismeasure of Land: Land Surveying in the Tokugawa PeriodPhilip C. Brown- MN 42:2 (1987) 157–66The Courtly Model: Chōmei and Kiyomori in JikkinshōWard Geddes
- MN 42:2 (1987) 164–66JikkinshōKamo no Chōmei, Translated by Ward Geddes
- MN 42:2 (1987) 167–209Sōgi in the East Country: Shirakawa KikōSteven D. Carter
- MN 42:2 (1987) 180–209Record of a Journey to ShirakawaSōgi, Translated by Steven D. Carter
- MN 42:2 (1987) 211–17An Explanation of Beauty: Nishida Kitarō’s Bi no SetsumeiSteve Odin
- MN 42:2 (1987) 215–17An Explanation of Beauty: Bi no SetsumeiKitarō Nishida, Translated by Steve Odin
- MN 42:2 (1987) 219–29Interpreting Literary HistoryHaruo Shirane
- MN 42:2 (1987) 231–32Ikkyū and the Crazy Cloud Anthology: A Zen Poet of Medieval Japan by Sonja ArntzenJames H. Sanford
- MN 42:2 (1987) 232–35The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature by Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, Robert E. MorrellEleanor Kerkham
- MN 42:2 (1987) 236–38The Fracture of Meaning: Japan’s Synthesis of China from the Eighth through the Eighteenth Centuries by David PollackRobert E. Morrell
- MN 42:2 (1987) 239–40Japanese History: A Guide to Survey Histories, Part II: Literature by Naomi FukudaNobuko Miyama Ochner
- MN 42:2 (1987) 240–42Japan in Transition: From Tokugawa to Meiji by Marius B. Jansen, Gilbert RozmanRoger Bowen
- MN 42:2 (1987) 243–45Liberalism in Modern Japan: Ishibashi Tanzan and His Teachers, 1905–1960 by Sharon H. NoltePeter Duus
- MN 42:2 (1987) 245–47Six Hidden Views of Japanese Music by William P. MalmBritten Dean
- MN 42:2 (1987) 248–50Windows on the Japanese Past: Studies in Archaeology and Prehistory by Richard J. Pearson, Gina Lee Barnes, Karl L. HuttererCharles T. Keally
- MN 42:2 (1987) 251–52Snow Country Tales: Life in the Other Japan by Suzuki Bokushi, Jeffrey Hunter, Rose Lesser, Anne WalthallMichael Cooper
MN 42:1 (1987) 1–23The Divine Boy in Japanese ArtChristine M. E. Guth- MN 42:1 (1987) 25–55The Daruma-shū, Dōgen and Sōtō ZenBernard Faure
- MN 42:1 (1987) 57–87The Fujinoki Tomb and Its Grave-GoodsJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.
- MN 42:1 (1987) 89–91Principles of Classical Japanese Literature by Earl MinerThomas H. Rohlich
- MN 42:1 (1987) 92–97Social Protest and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Japan by Anne Walthall; Deference and Defiance in Nineteenth-Century Japan by William W. KellyJames L. McClain
- MN 42:1 (1987) 98–100The Diary of Kido Takayoshi, Volume 3, 1874–1877 by Sidney DeVere Brown, Akiko HirotaMarius B. Jansen
- MN 42:1 (1987) 101–103Circles of Fantasy: Convention in the Plays of Chikamatsu by C. Andrew GerstleStanleigh H. Jones
- MN 42:1 (1987) 103–106The Way of Acting: The Theatre Writings of Tadashi Suzuki by J. Thomas RimerLaurence R. Kominz
- MN 42:1 (1987) 107–10The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of Kūkai and Dōgen by David Edward ShanerJames H. Sanford
- MN 42:1 (1987) 110–11The Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale by Fanny Hagin MayerMargaret H. Childs
- MN 42:1 (1987) 112–14Hateruma: Socio-Religious Aspects of a South-Ryukyuan Island Culture by C. OuwehandRichard Pearson
MN 41:4 (1986) 377–414Post Station and Assisting Villages: Corvée Labor and Peasant ContentionConstantine Nomikos Vaporis- MN 41:4 (1986) 415–56Carnival of the Aliens: Korean Embassies in Edo-Period Art and Popular CultureRonald P. Toby
- MN 41:4 (1986) 457–76Tokugawa Peasants: Win, Lose, or Draw?Conrad Totman
- MN 41:4 (1986) 477–88The Deity DepictedDonald F. McCallum
- MN 41:4 (1986) 489–91Narrative Voice in The Tale of Genji by Amanda Mayer StinchecumAileen Gatten
- MN 41:4 (1986) 491–94Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court by Robert BorgenWilliam H. McCullough