Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 41:2 (1986) 175–97Miyazawa Kenji and the Lost Gandharan PaintingSarah M. Strong- MN 41:2 (1986) 199–219Foreign Threat and Domestic Reform: The Emergence of the Ritsuryō StateBruce L. Batten
- MN 41:2 (1986) 226–37Gojō Tan’iNakajima Atsushi, Translated by Nobuko Miyama Ochner
- MN 41:2 (1986) 221–37Wu-jing’s Admiration: Nakajima Atsushi’s Gojō Tan’INobuko Miyama Ochner
- MN 41:2 (1986) 239–41The History of the Japanese Written Language by Yaeko Sato HabeinDavid O. Mills
- MN 41:2 (1986) 242–43Shikitei Sanba and the Comic Tradition in Edo Fiction by Robert W. LeutnerRichard Bowring
- MN 41:2 (1986) 243–45A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government by Nakae Chōmin, Nobuko Tsukui, Jeffrey HammondAnne Walthall
- MN 41:2 (1986) 245–47The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853–1955 by Andrew GordonChalmers Johnson
- MN 41:2 (1986) 248–50Populist Nationalism in Prewar Japan: A Biography of Nakano Seigō by Leslie Russell OatesMiles Fletcher
- MN 41:2 (1986) 250–52Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 by Alvin D. CooxJohn J. Stephan
- MN 41:2 (1986) 252–55Lost Innocence: Folk Craft Potters of Onta, Japan by Brian MoeranRupert Faulkner
- MN 41:2 (1986) 255–57Zen and Western Thought by Masao Abe, William R. LaFleurMichiko Yusa
- MN 41:2 (1986) 258–59Dōgen Studies by William R. LaFleurMorris J. Augustine
- MN 41:2 (1986) 259–60Chelovek i mir v yaponskoi kulture [Man and the World in Japanese Culture] by T. P. GrigoryevaHerbert Plutschow
MN 41:1 (1986) 1–20Voices from the Periphery: Love Songs in Ryōjin HishōYung-Hee Kim Kwon- MN 41:1 (1986) 27–50Rokugō Kaizan Nimmon Daibosatsu HongiTranslated by Allan G. Grapard
- MN 41:1 (1986) 21–50Lotus in the Mountain, Mountain in the Lotus: Rokugō Kaizan Nimmon Daibosatsu HongiAllan G. Grapard
- MN 41:1 (1986) 71–101Five Days at Yasnaya PolyanaTokutomi Roka, Translated by Laurence R. Kominz
- MN 41:1 (1986) 51–101Pilgrimage to Tolstoy: Tokutomi Roka’s Junrei KikōLaurence R. Kominz
- MN 41:1 (1986) 103–105Cultural Bonanzas
- MN 41:1 (1986) 107–109Classical Learning and Taoist Practices in Early Japan by Felicia G. BockMichiko Yamaguchi Aoki
- MN 41:1 (1986) 109–12Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645–900 by William Wayne FarrisDana Morris
- MN 41:1 (1986) 112–14Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period by Carol GluckSidney DeVere Brown
- MN 41:1 (1986) 114–17The Culture of the Meiji Period by Irokawa Daikichi, Marius B. JansenByron K. Marshall
- MN 41:1 (1986) 117–19The Diary of Kido Takayoshi, Volume II: 1871–1874 by Sidney DeVere Brown, Akiko HirotaRobert M. Spaulding
- MN 41:1 (1986) 119–21International Perspectives on Yanagita Kunio and Japanese Folklore Studies by J. Victor Koschmann, Ōiwa Keibō, Yamashita ShinjiPeter Knecht
- MN 41:1 (1986) 122–24Nihon Bunka no Kakureta Kata by Takeda KiyokoSinh Vinh
- MN 41:1 (1986) 124–25Backstage at Bunraku: A Behind-the-Scences Look at Japan’s Traditional Puppet Theatre by Barbara C. AdachiKaren Brazell
MN 40:4 (1985) 359–86Buddhist Temple Names in JapanDietrich Seckel- MN 40:4 (1985) 387–98Action as Fitting Match to Knowledge: Language and Symbol in Mishima’s KinkakujiDavid Pollack
- MN 40:4 (1985) 409–25MaigetsushōFujiwara no Teika, Translated by Robert H. Brower
- MN 40:4 (1985) 399–425Fujiwara Teika’s MaigetsushōRobert H. Brower
- MN 40:4 (1985) 427–28Le Chrysanthème solitaire by Jacqueline Pigeot, Keiko KosugiJacques Bésineau
- MN 40:4 (1985) 428–30Saigyō-Rezeption: Das von Saigyō verkörperte Eremiten-Ideal in der japanischen Literaturgeschichte by Keiko Hartwieg-HiratsukaMarian Ury
- MN 40:4 (1985) 431–33Other Worlds: Arishima Takeo and the Bounds of Modern Japanese Fiction by Paul AndererVan C. Gessel
- MN 40:4 (1985) 433–35The Reform of Fiction in Meiji Japan by Peter F. KornickiJanet A. Walker
- MN 40:4 (1985) 436–38Writers and Society in Modern Japan by Irena PowellNanette Twine
- MN 40:4 (1985) 438–40The Saga of Dazai Osamu: A Critical Study with Translations by Phyllis I. Lyons; Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp by James WesterhovenAmy Vladeck Heinrich
- MN 40:4 (1985) 440–42Japan in Transition: Thought and Action in the Meiji Era, 1868–1912 by Hilary Conroy, Sandra T. W. Davis, Wayne PattersonM. William Steele
- MN 40:4 (1985) 442–46American Samurai: Captain L. L. Janes and Japan by F. G. NotehelferJames L. Huffman
- MN 40:4 (1985) 446–47Japan Erupts: The London Naval Conference and the Manchurian Incident, 1928–1932 by James W. MorleyIan Nish
- MN 40:4 (1985) 447–49Facism, Miltarism or Japanism? The Interpretation of the Crisis Years of 1930–1941 in the Japanese English-Language Press by Olavi K. Fält, Malcolm HicksRichard H. Mitchell
- MN 40:4 (1985) 449–51Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History by Janet E. HunterCarol Gluck
- MN 40:4 (1985) 452–53Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy by Takeda Izumo, Stanleigh JonesLaurence R. Kominz
- MN 40:4 (1985) 454–56The Early Japanese Labor Movement: Labor and Politics in a Developing Society by Robert A. ScalapinoStephen S. Large
- MN 40:4 (1985) 456–57The Origins of Japan’s Modern Forests: The Case of Akita by Conrad TotmanRobert J. Smith
- MN 40:4 (1985) 457–59Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan by Robert C. MarshallDavid W. Plath
- MN 40:4 (1985) 459–62Kikkoman: Company, Clan, and Community by W. Mark FruinShinya Sugiyama