Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 39:1 (1984) 34–54Chichi no Shūen Nikki: Journal of My Father’s Last DaysIssa, Translated by Robert N. Huey- MN 39:1 (1984) 55–81Japan Discovers Australia: The Emergence of Australia in the Japanese World-View, 1540s–1900Henry Frei
- MN 39:1 (1984) 83–87The M. O. A. Museum of ArtWilla Jane Tanabe
- MN 39:1 (1984) 89CorrespondenceThomas R. H. Havens
- MN 39:1 (1984) 91–94Fragments of Rainbows: The Life and Poetry of Saitō Mokichi, 1882–1953 by Amy Vladeck HeinrichJanine Beichman-Yamamoto
- MN 39:1 (1984) 94–97Selbstentblössungsrituale: Zur Theorie und Geschichte der autobiographischen Gattung ‘Shishōsetsu’ in der modernen japanischen Literatur by Irmela Hijiya-KirschnereitBarbara Yoshida-Krafft
- MN 39:1 (1984) 97–98Tengu Child: Stories by Kikuo Itaya by John Gardner, Nobuko TsukuiYoshiko Kurata Dykstra
- MN 39:1 (1984) 98–101Jinsai, Sorai, Norinaga: Three Classical Philologists in Mid-Tokugawa Japan by Yoshikawa Kōjirō, Kikuchi YūjiTetsuo Najita
- MN 39:1 (1984) 101–103Censorship in Imperial Japan by Richard H. MitchellJames L. Huffman
- MN 39:1 (1984) 103–106Studien über den jungen Ōsugi Sakae und die Meiji-Sozialisten zwischen Sozialdemokratie und Anarchismus unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Anarchismusrezeption by Herbert WormF. G. Notehelfer
- MN 39:1 (1984) 106–108The Search for a New Order: Intellectuals and Fascism in Prewar Japan by Miles FletcherThomas A. Stanley
- MN 39:1 (1984) 108–10Zen Action, Zen Person by T. P. KasulisMichiko Yusa
- MN 39:1 (1984) 111–13Tausend Kirschbäume, Yoshitsune: Ein klassisches Stück des japanischen Theaters der Edozeit. Studie, Übersetzung, Kommentar by Eduard KlopfensteinDetlef Schauwecker
- MN 39:1 (1984) 113–14The Griffis Collection of Japanese Books: An Annotated Bibliography by Diane E. PerushekEdward R. Beauchamp
MN 38:4 (1983) 359–75The Informing Image: ‘China’ in Genji MonogatariDavid Pollack- MN 38:4 (1983) 377–86James I and JapanDerek Massarella
- MN 38:4 (1983) 387–407Ya no Ne: The Genesis of a Kabuki Aragoto ClassicLaurence R. Kominz
- MN 38:4 (1983) 401–407Ya no NeTranslated by Laurence R. Kominz
- MN 38:4 (1983) 409–12Kōbō Daishi and the Art of Esoteric BuddhismGeorge J. Tanabe
- MN 38:4 (1983) 413–27CorrespondenceLuis O. Gómez, Yoshifumi Ueda and Dennis Hirota
- MN 38:4 (1983) 429–31A Tale of Eleventh-Century Japan: Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari by Thomas H. RohlichCarol Hochstedler
- MN 38:4 (1983) 431–33Ueda Akinari by Blake Morgan YoungAnthony H. Chambers
- MN 38:4 (1983) 434–36The Essence of the Novel by Tsubouchi Shōyō, Nanette TwineRobert Rolf
- MN 38:4 (1983) 436–37Pagoda, Skull and Sumurai: Three Stories by Kōda Rohan by Chieko Irie MulhernGretchen Evans
- MN 38:4 (1983) 437–40Approaches to the Modern Japanese Short Story by Thomas E. Swann, Kinya TsurutaVan C. Gessel
- MN 38:4 (1983) 440–42One Hundred Frogs: From Rengu to Haiku in English by Hiroaki SatoEri F. Yasuhara
- MN 38:4 (1983) 442–45This Kind of Woman: Ten Stories by Japanese Women Writers, 1960–1976 by Yukiko Tanaka, Elizabeth Hanson; Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers by Noriko Mizuta Lippit, Kyoko Iriye SeldenYoko McClain
- MN 38:4 (1983) 445–46Chronicle of My Mother by Yasushi Inoue, Jean Oda MoyMarian Ury
- MN 38:4 (1983) 446–50Historia de Japam. by Luis Fróis, José Wicki; Francis Xavier: His Life, His Times by Georg Schurhammer, M. Joseph CostelloeMichael Cooper
- MN 38:4 (1983) 451–53Hideyoshi by Mary Elizabeth BerryHarold Bolitho
- MN 38:4 (1983) 454–58Private Academies of Tokugawa Japan by Richard RubingerRobert M. Spaulding
- MN 38:4 (1983) 458–59The Revolutionary Origins of Modern Japan by Thomas M. HuberHilary Conroy
- MN 38:4 (1983) 460–62Konoe Fumimaro: A Political Biography by Yoshitake Oka, Shumpei Okamoto, Patricia MurrayBen-Ami Shillony
- MN 38:4 (1983) 462–65Emperor Hirohito and His Chief Aide-de-Camp: The Honjō Diary, 1933–36 by Mikiso HaneDavid A. Titus
- MN 38:4 (1983) 465–66Irrigation Management in Japan: A Critical Review of Japanese Social Science Research by William W. Kelly; Water Control in Tokugawa Japan: Irrigation Organization in a Japanese River Basin, 1600–1870 by William W. KellyDavid H. Kornhauser
- MN 38:4 (1983) 467–69Das ‘Selbst’ in Mahāyāna-Buddhismus in Japanischer Sicht und die ‘Person’ im Christentum im Licht des Neuen Testaments by Masumi ShimizuJan Van Bragt
- MN 38:4 (1983) 469–71Refining Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment by Zen Master Dōgen, Kōshō Uchiyama, Thomas WrightJohn C. Maraldo
- MN 38:4 (1983) 472–73Zum Verhältnis von Staat und Shinto im heutigen Japan: Eine Materialsammlung by Ernst LokowandtFelix Moos
- MN 38:4 (1983) 473–74The New Religions of Japan: A Bibliography of Western-Language Materials by H. Byron EarhartHelen Hardacre
- MN 38:4 (1983) 474–77Japanese Lacquer Art: Modern Masterpieces by The National Museum of Modern Art, Richard L. GageAnn Yonemura
- MN 38:4 (1983) 477–79Essays on Japanese Art Presented to Jack Hillier by Matthi ForrerCal French
- MN 38:4 (1983) 479–81Japan-Handbuch by Horst Hammitzsch, Lydia Brüll, Ulrich GochWerner Schaumann
MN 38:3 (1983) 221–49Bunshō Sōshi: The Tale of Bunshō, the SaltmakerTranslated by James T. Araki- MN 38:3 (1983) 251–81Defend the Nation and Love the Truth’: Inoue Enryō and the Revival of Meiji BuddhismKathleen M. Staggs
- MN 38:3 (1983) 283–94National Morality and Universal Ethics: Ōnishi Hajime and the Imperial Rescript on EducationSharon H. Nolte
- MN 38:3 (1983) 289–94The Imperial Rescript on Education and Ethical TheoryHajime Ōnishi, Translated by Sharon H. Nolte
- MN 38:3 (1983) 295–312Sakuragawa: Cherry River —441Robert N. Huey
- MN 38:3 (1983) 299–312Sakuragawa: Cherry RiverZeami Kanze Motokiyo, Translated by Robert N. Huey