Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 40, Number 2 (1985)- MN 40:2 (1985) 127–46Lord Tamekane’s Notes on Poetry: Tamekanekyō Wakashō —82Robert N. Huey and Susan Matisoff
- MN 40:2 (1985) 147–62That ‘Howling’ Music: Japanese Hōgaku in Contrast to Western Art MusicBritten Dean
- MN 40:2 (1985) 163–89The Laws of CompassionBeatrice Bodart-Bailey
- MN 40:2 (1985) 191–208The Inversion of Progress: Taoka Reiun’s HibunmeironRonald P. Loftus
- MN 40:2 (1985) 209–19Yamadadera: Excavations 1984Mary Neighbour Parent
- MN 40:2 (1985) 221–23Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture by Peter NoscoBob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- MN 40:2 (1985) 223–24Ogyū Sorai’s Journey to Kai in 1706, with a Translation of the Kyōchūkikō by Olof G. LidinRonald P. Toby
- MN 40:2 (1985) 225–27Japan’s Local Pragmatists: The Transition from Bakumatsu to Meiji in the Kawasaki Region by Neil L. WatersD. Eleanor Westney
- MN 40:2 (1985) 227–30The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895–1945 by Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. PeattieC. I. Eugene Kim
- MN 40:2 (1985) 231–32The China Quagmire: Japan’s Expansion on the Asian Continent, 1933–1941 by James William MorleyLinda Grove
- MN 40:2 (1985) 233–34Japans Deutschlandpolitik 1935–1941: Eine Studie zur Vorgeschichte des Pazifischen Krieges by Gerhard KrebsFrank W. Iklé
- MN 40:2 (1985) 234–35Japanese History: A Guide to Survey Histories, Part I: By Period by Naomi FukudaM. William Steele
- MN 40:2 (1985) 235–38Heritage of Endurance: Family Patterns and Delinquency Formation in Urban Japan by Hiroshi Wagatsuma, George A. De VosRonald Dore
- MN 40:2 (1985) 238–41Conflict in Japan by Ellis S. Krauss, Thomas P. Rohlen, Patricia G. SteinhoffSusan B. Hanley
- MN 40:2 (1985) 241–43Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment by Takie Sugiyama LebraH. J. Jones
- MN 40:2 (1985) 243–44Old Age in Japan: An Annotated Bibliography of Western-Language Materials by Sepp Linhart, Fleur WössMichael Cooper
- MN 40:2 (1985) 245–46Facing Two Ways: The Story of My Life by Baroness Shidzue Ishimoto, Barbara MolonyTakie Sugiyama Lebra
- MN 40:2 (1985) 246–47Smaller Is Better: Japan’s Mastery of the Miniature by O-Young Lee, Robert N. HueyJames Abrams
- MN 40:2 (1985) 247–48Kabuki, Holzschnitt, Japonismus: Japonica in der Theatersammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek by Thomas Leims, Ilse Chlan, Leopoldine PavlicekDetlef Schauwecker
- MN 40:2 (1985) 248–49Shogun: The Shogun Age Exhibition by Shogun Age Exhibition CommitteeChristine Guth Kanda
- MN 40:2 (1985) 250–51Ansätze modernen Denkens in den Religionen Japans by Hajime Nakamura; Beihefte der Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte by Siegfried Schultz, Anke Schomaker-HuettArcadio Schwade
- MN 40:2 (1985) 251–53Miraculous Tales of the Lotus Sutra from Ancient Japan: The Dainihonkoku Hokekyōkenki of Priest Chingen by Yoshiko K. DykstraMargaret H. Childs
- MN 40:2 (1985) 253–55A Dictionary of Japanese Buddhist Terms by Hisao Inagaki, P. G. O’NeillGeorge J. Tanabe