Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 39:2 (1984) 198–200Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature by Makoto UedaJ. Thomas Rimer- MN 39:2 (1984) 200–201La Littérature japonaise by Jacqueline Pigeot, Jean-Jacques TschudinJacques Bésineau
- MN 39:2 (1984) 201–203Japanese Folk Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide by Joanne P. AlgarinChieko Irie Mulhern
- MN 39:2 (1984) 203–205Ikki by Katsumata ShizuoAnne Walthall
- MN 39:2 (1984) 206–10Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake by Edward SeidenstickerHenry D. Smith II
- MN 39:2 (1984) 210–12Hawaii Under the Rising Sun: Japan’s Plans for Conquest after Pearl Harbor by John J. StephanJames H. Buck
- MN 39:2 (1984) 212–13Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan by Hugh CortazziDonald Keene
- MN 39:2 (1984) 214–16Absolute Nothingness: Foundations for a Buddhist-Christian Dialogue by Hans Waldenfels, J. W. Heisig; Religion and Nothingness by Keiji Nishitani, Jan Van BragtDavid A. Dilworth
- MN 39:2 (1984) 216–19The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School by Frederick FranckTaitetsu Unno
- MN 39:2 (1984) 219–21Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan by Sharon L. SieversPatricia G. Steinhoff
- MN 39:2 (1984) 221–22Haruko’s World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community by Gail Lee BernsteinAnn Waswo
- MN 39:2 (1984) 222–24Geisha by Liza Crihfield DalbyGail Lee Bernstein
- MN 39:2 (1984) 224–26The Noh Theater: Principles and Perspectives by Kunio KomparuMonica Bethe
- MN 39:2 (1984) 227–29Japan’s High Schools by Thomas P. RohlenRobert Chiesa
- MN 39:2 (1984) 230–31A Tale of Two Swords
MN 39:1 (1984) 1–10Land-Use Patterns and Afforestation in the Edo PeriodConrad Totman- MN 39:1 (1984) 11–24Between Tradition and Modernity: Labor and the Ashio Copper MineF. G. Notehelfer
- 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) 25–54Journal of My Father’s Last Days: Issa’s Chichi no Shūen NikkiRobert 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) 401–407Ya no NeTranslated by Laurence R. Kominz
- MN 38:4 (1983) 387–407Ya no Ne: The Genesis of a Kabuki Aragoto ClassicLaurence 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