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Monumenta Nipponica Volume 45, Number 3 (1990)- MN 45:3 (1990) 253–84Arts of War in Times of Peace (Part 1): Archery in Honchō Bugei ShōdenJohn M. Rogers
- MN 45:3 (1990) 285–306Tōkoku at MatsushimaMichael C. Brownstein
- MN 45:3 (1990) 339–52Toward a History of Twentieth-Century JapanSheldon Garon
- MN 45:3 (1990) 353–55Tales of Heichū by Susan Downing VideenVirginia Skord
- MN 45:3 (1990) 355–57Waiting for the Wind: Thirty-Six Poets of Japan’s Late Medieval Age by Steven D. CarterPhillip T. Harries
- MN 45:3 (1990) 357–60Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries by Donald KeeneMartin Collcutt
- MN 45:3 (1990) 360–63Kyōgoku Tamekane: Poetry and Politics in Late Kamakura Japan by Robert N. HueySteven D. Carter
- MN 45:3 (1990) 363–6518th Century Japan: Culture and Society by C. Andrew GerstlePaul Gordon Schalow
- MN 45:3 (1990) 365–66Postwar Japanese Women Writers: An Up-to-date Bibliography with Biographical Sketches by Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck, Søren EgerodRebecca Copeland
- MN 45:3 (1990) 367–69Hokusai: One Hundred Poets by Peter MorseSusan Matisoff
- MN 45:3 (1990) 369–72Le commerce extérieur du Japon: Des origines au XVIe siècle by Charlotte von VerschuerAndrew Edmund Goble
- MN 45:3 (1990) 372–75Remembering Paradise: Nativism and Nostalgia in Eighteenth-Century Japan by Peter NoscoBob Tadashi Wakabayashi
- MN 45:3 (1990) 375–76The Future Japan by Tokutomi Sohō, Vinh Sinh, Matsuzawa Hiroaki, Nicholas WickendenThomas R. H. Havens
- MN 45:3 (1990) 376–78The Clash of Interests: The Transformation of Japan in 1861–1881 in the Eyes of the Local Anglo-Saxon Press by Olavi K. Fält, Malcolm HicksHugh Cortazzi
- MN 45:3 (1990) 378–81Foreign Employees in Nineteenth Century Japan by Edward R. Beauchamp, Akira IriyeJames L. Huffman
- MN 45:3 (1990) 381–84Pearl Harbor Reexamined: Prologue to the Pacific War by Hilary Conroy, Harry WrayJohn Hunter Boyle
- MN 45:3 (1990) 384–86Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu by Miriam SilverbergW. Miles Fletcher III
- MN 45:3 (1990) 386–88Masterworks of the Nō Theater by Kenneth YasudaRebecca Teele
- MN 45:3 (1990) 388–89Butoh: Shades of Darkness by Jean Viala, Nourit Masson-SekineDavid G. Goodman
- MN 45:3 (1990) 389–90Verzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Japan-Schrifttums 1980–1987 by Susanne Formanek, Peter GetreuerNorbert R. Adami