Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 30:1 (1975) 102–103The Ancient Civilization of Japan by Vadime Elisseeff, James HogarthJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.- MN 30:1 (1975) 104–105The Life of Ogyū Sorai, a Tokugawa Confucian Philosopher by Olof G. LidinJos. M. Goedertier
- MN 30:1 (1975) 105–106Economic Institutional Change in Tokugawa Japan: Ōsaka and the Kinai Cotton Trade by William B. HauserV. Dixon Morris
- MN 30:1 (1975) 107–108Ōkuma Shigenobu: Statesman of Meiji Japan by Joyce C. LebraRoger F. Hackett
- MN 30:1 (1975) 109–10Japan in Crisis: Essays on Taishō Democracy by Bernard S. Silberman, H. D. HarootunianRichard H. Mitchell
- MN 30:1 (1975) 111–12Race to Pearl Harbor. The Failure of the Second London Naval Conference and the Onset of World War II by Stephen E. PelzIan Nish
- MN 30:1 (1975) 113–14A Social Basis for Prewar Japanese Militarism: The Army and the Rural Community by Richard J. SmethurstThomas R. H. Havens
- MN 30:1 (1975) 116Japanese Research on Mass Communication: Selected Abstracts by Hidetoshi KatoJosé María de Vera
- MN 30:1 (1975) 115–16Sources of Japanese History by David LuH. Paul Varley
- MN 30:1 (1975) 117Emaki. Tokyo National MuseumJoseph P. Love
- MN 30:1 (1975) 117–19CorrespondenceEta Harich-Schneider and Willem Adriaansz
MN 29:4 (1974) 381–413Mori Ōgai’s Response to Suppression of Intellectual Freedom, 1909–12Helen M. Hopper- MN 29:4 (1974) 415–38The Selling of Japan: Japanese Manipulation of Western Opinion, 1900–1905Robert B. Valliant
- MN 29:4 (1974) 439–49FujitoTranslated by William Ritchie Wilson
- MN 29:4 (1974) 451–75Japan’s Young Prince: Konoe Fumimaro’s Early Political Career, 1916–1931Gordon Mark Berger
- MN 29:4 (1974) 477–80Xavier and TanegashimaDiego Pacheco
- MN 29:4 (1974) 481–83Lady Nijo’s Own Story. The Candid Diary of a Thirteenth-Century Japanese Imperial Concubine by Wilfred Whitehouse, Eizo YanagisawaMildred Tahara
- MN 29:4 (1974) 483–84Accomplices of Silence: The Modern Japanese Novel by Masao MiyoshiWilliam J. Currie
- MN 29:4 (1974) 484–87Asuka Buddhist Art: Horyu-ji by Seiichi Mizuno, Richard L. GageJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.
- MN 29:4 (1974) 488–90Shinto Art: Ise and Izumo Shrines by Yasutada Watanabe, Robert RickettsFelicia Gressitt Bock
- MN 29:4 (1974) 490–92Sculpture of the Kamakura Period by Hisashi Mori, Katherine EickmannDavid Waterhouse
- MN 29:4 (1974) 492–93Japanese Painting in the Literati Style by Yoshiho Yonezawa, Chu Yoshizawa, Betty Iverson MonroeMadelaine David
- MN 29:4 (1974) 493–95Ink Painting by Takaaki Matsushita, Martin CollcuttMoney Hickman
- MN 29:4 (1974) 495–96The Living Treasures of Japan by Barbara AdachFosco Maraini
- MN 29:4 (1974) 496–98The Kyōgyōshinshō by Gutoku Shaku Shinran, Daisetz Teitarō Suzuki, The Eastern Buddhist Society; Collected Writings on Shin Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, The Eastern Buddhist SocietyShōyū Hanayama
- MN 29:4 (1974) 498–501Franz Xaver. Sein Leben und seine Zeit. Zweiter Band: Asien, 1541–1552; Dritter Teilband: Japan und China, 1549–1552 by Georg SchurhammerHubert Cieslik
- MN 29:4 (1974) 501–503Rodrigues the Interpreter. An Early Jesuit in Japan and China by Michael CooperJ. S. Cummins
- MN 29:4 (1974) 503–505Reimeiki Nihon no Seibutsu-shi. by Kihara Hitoshi; Nihon Hakubutsugaku-Shi by Ueno MasuzōShun’ichi H. Takayanagi
- MN 29:4 (1974) 506–508Mitsui: Three Centuries of Japanese Business by John G. RobertsEleanor M. Hadley
- MN 29:4 (1974) 511Recent Reprints
- MN 29:4 (1974) 509–511Teachers and Politics in Japan by Donald R. ThurstonKlaus Luhmer
MN 29:3 (1974) 247–61Utakata no KiMori Ōgai, Translated by Richard Bowring- MN 29:3 (1974) 263–81The Problem of Utakata no KiThomas E. Swann
- MN 29:3 (1974) 289–303Twenty-One Articles by Lord SōunHōjō Sōun, Translated by Carl Steenstrup
- MN 29:3 (1974) 283–303Hōjō Sōun’s Twenty-One Articles: The Code of Conduct of the Odawara HōjōCarl Steenstrup
- MN 29:3 (1974) 305–27Bakumatsu Foreign EmployeesH. J. Jones
- MN 29:3 (1974) 329–35Yanagita KunioShun’ichi H. Takayanagi
- MN 29:3 (1974) 337–39Japanese Culture: A Study of Origins and Characteristics by Eiichiro Ishida, Teruko KachiJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.
- MN 29:3 (1974) 340–42Ancient Myths and Early History of Japan. A Cultural Foundation by Michiko Y. AokiJ. Edward Kidder, Jr.
- MN 29:3 (1974) 342–45Deus Destroyed. The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan by George ElisonC. R. Boxer
- MN 29:3 (1974) 345–46Urban Networks in Ch’ing China and Tokugawa Japan by Gilbert RozmanLinda Grove
- MN 29:3 (1974) 346–48The Fifty Years of the Communist Party of Japan by The Central Committee of the Communist Party of JapanPatricia G. Steinhoff
- MN 29:3 (1974) 349–50The Factory Ship’ and ‘The Absentee Landlord’ by Takiji Kobayashi, Frank MotofujiBrian Powell
- MN 29:3 (1974) 356Bukkyōgaku Kankei Zasshi Ronbun Bunrui Mokuroku by Ryūkoku Daigaku ToshokanPier P. Del Campana
- MN 29:3 (1974) 350–56The Teachings Essential for Rebirth: A Study of Genshin’s Ōjōyōshū by Allan A. AndrewsStanley Weinstein
- MN 29:3 (1974) 358–59Narrative Picture Scrolls by Hideo Okudaira, Elizabeth ten GrotenhuisFred H. Martinson
- MN 29:3 (1974) 359–61Feudal Architecture of Japan by Kiyoshi Hirai, Hiroaki Saito, Jeannine CiliottaE. Michael Czaja
- MN 29:3 (1974) 361–66A History of Japanese Music by Eta Harich-SchneiderWillem Adriaansz