Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 40, Number 4 (1985)- 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) 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
- MN 40:4 (1985) 462–63The World of Kameda Bōsai: The Calligraphy, Poetry, Painting and Artistic Circle of a Japanese Literatus by Stephen AddissBettina Klein
- MN 40:4 (1985) 464–66Kosode: 16th–19th Century Textiles from the Nomura Collection by Amanda Stinchecum, Monica Bethe, Margot PaulMarie Lyman