Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 44, Number 1 (1989)- MN 44:1 (1989) 1–30A Neglected Chapter: Courtly Fiction of the Kamakura PeriodDonald Keene
- MN 44:1 (1989) 31–44The Little-Lad Deity and the Dragon Princess: Jesus in a New World-Renewal MovementRichard Fox Young
- MN 44:1 (1989) 45–74Sacral Kingship and Confederacy in Early IzumoJoan R. Piggott
- MN 44:1 (1989) 75–97Modernism Minceur, or Is Japan Postmodern?David Pollack
- MN 44:1 (1989) 99–100Shōwa 64, Heisei 1
- MN 44:1 (1989) 101Sawada Tetsuya, 1921–1988
- MN 44:1 (1989) 103–106CorrespondenceKenneth Henshall
- MN 44:1 (1989) 107–109Nature and Identity in Canadian and Japanese Literature by Kinya Tsuruta, Theodore GoossenSandra Buckley
- MN 44:1 (1989) 109–13Contemporary Japanese Literature by Ivar IvaskJohn Whittier Treat
- MN 44:1 (1989) 113–15Palm of the Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, Lane Dunlop, J. Martin HolmanSusan J. Napier
- MN 44:1 (1989) 115–19Pools of Water, Pillars of Fire: The Literature of Ibuse Masuji by John Whittier TreatAnthony V. Liman
- MN 44:1 (1989) 119–22The State and Labor in Modern Japan by Sheldon GaronKoji Taira
- MN 44:1 (1989) 122–24Soviet Policy Towards Japan: An Analysis of Trends in the 1970s and 1980s by Myles L. C. RobertsonJohn J. Stephan
- MN 44:1 (1989) 124–28Educational Thought and Ideology in Modern Japan: State Authority and Intellectual Freedom by Teruhisa Horio, Steven Platzer; Educational Achievement in Japan: Lessons for the West by Richard LynnCatherine Lewis
- MN 44:1 (1989) 128–29Japanese Women Artists, 1600–1900. by Patricia FisterBettina Klein
- MN 44:1 (1989) 130–31Kipling’s Japan: Collected Writings by Hugh Cortazzi, George Webb; Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan by Robert A. RosenstoneHelen J. Ballhatchet
- MN 44:1 (1989) 132–33Different People: Pictures of Some Japanese by Donald RichiePaul McCarthy
- MN 44:1 (1989) 133–35Inside the Robot Kingdom: Japan, Mechatronics, and the Coming Robotopia by Frederik L. SchodtWilliam W. Kelly