Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
MN 46:1 (1991) 130–32Sun at Midnight: Poems and Sermons by Musō Soseki by W. S. Merwin, Sōiku ShigematsuRobert E. Morrell- MN 46:1 (1991) 133–36Nō-Theater: Szene und Dramaturgie, volks- und völkerkundliche Hintergründe by Günter ZobelDarko Suvin
- MN 46:1 (1991) 136–37Japanese Agriculture: Patterns of Rural Development by Richard H. MoorePenelope Francks
- MN 46:1 (1991) 138–40Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan by E. Patricia TsurumiSally Ann Hastings
- MN 46:1 (1991) 140–41Office Ladies, Factory Women: Life and Work at a Japanese Company by Jeannie LoJoy Hendry
- MN 46:1 (1991) 141–44Unwrapping Japan: Society and Culture in Anthropological Perspective by Eyal Ben-Ari, Brian Moeran, James ValentineWalter Edwards
- MN 46:1 (1991) 144–46Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake by Edward SeidenstickerPaul Waley
- MN 46:1 (1991) 1991Monumenta Nipponica Volume 46, Number 1, 1991
MN 45:4 (1990) 391–411The Very Idea: The Notion of Ideogram in China and JapanJ. Marshall Unger- MN 45:4 (1990) 418–47Chapter Five: SwordsmanshipHinatsu Shigetaka, Translated by John M. Rogers
- MN 45:4 (1990) 413–47Arts of War in Times of Peace (Part 2): Swordsmanship in Honchō Bugei Shōden, Chapter 5John M. Rogers
- MN 45:4 (1990) 449–70Mokkan: Wooden Documents from the Nara PeriodJoan R. Piggott
- MN 45:4 (1990) 471–74Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan by Gary L. EbersoleGina L. Barnes
- MN 45:4 (1990) 474–76Red Lights: Selected Tanka Sequences from Shakkō by Mokichi Saitō, Seishi Shinoda, Sanford GoldsteinMeera S. Viswanathan
- MN 45:4 (1990) 476–77Long, Long Autumn Nights: Selected Poems of Oguma Hideo, 1901–1940 by David G. GoodmanSteve Rabson
- MN 45:4 (1990) 478–80With Perry to Japan: A Memoir by William Heine by Frederic TrautmannM. William Steele
- MN 45:4 (1990) 480–82Nakae Ushikichi in China: The Mourning of Spirit by Joshua A. FogelBarbara Molony
- MN 45:4 (1990) 482–84An Instance of Treason: Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge Spy Ring by Chalmers JohnsonJohn J. Stephan
- MN 45:4 (1990) 485–86On a Riverboat Journey: A Handscroll by Itō Jakuchū, with Poems by Daiten trans. Hiroshi OnishiKenneth Gardner
- MN 45:4 (1990) 487–89Shinran: An Introduction to His Thought by Yoshifumi Ueda, Dennis HirotaJames C. Dobbins
- MN 45:4 (1990) 490–91Der Japanische Ōbaku Mönch Tetsugen Dōkō: Leben, Denken, Schriften by Dieter SchwallerJan Van Bragt
- MN 45:4 (1990) 492–94Japan und Heidegger: Gedenkschrift der Stadt Meßkirch zum 100. Geburtstag Martin Heideggers by Harmut BuchnerGregor Paul
- MN 45:4 (1990) 495–97The Kyogen Book: An Anthology of Japanese Classical Comedies by Don KennyCarolyn Haynes
- MN 45:4 (1990) 497–99La Ligue du Théâtre Prolétarien Japonais by Jean-Jacques TschudinBrian Powell
- MN 45:4 (1990) 499–501Education and Examination in Modern Japan by Ikuo Amano, William K. Cummings, Fumiko CummingsRoger Goodman
- MN 45:4 (1990) 501–504Japanese Models of Conflict Resolution by S. N. Eisenstadt, Eyal Ben-AriPatricia G. Steinhoff
- MN 45:4 (1990) 504–506From Paddy Field to Ski Slope: The Revitalisation of Tradition in Japanese Village Life by Okpyo MoonHarumi Befu
- MN 45:4 (1990) 506–507Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture by Richard Gid Powers, Katō HidetoshiWilliam W. Kelly
- MN 45:4 (1990) 507–508Japan: World Bibliographical Series, Volume 103 by Frank Joseph ShulmanJohn J. Stephan
- MN 45:4 (1990) 1990Monumenta Nipponica Volume 45, Number 4, 1990
MN 45:3 (1990) 261–84Honchō Bugei Shōden (Part 1)Hinatsu Shigetaka, Translated by John M. Rogers- 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) 303–306Reading Bashō at Matsushima: Matsushima ni oite Bashō-ō wo YomuTōkoku Kitamura, Translated by Michael C. Brownstein
- MN 45:3 (1990) 285–306Tōkoku at MatsushimaMichael C. Brownstein
- MN 45:3 (1990) 307–37The Enthronement Rites: The Text of Engishiki, 927Translated by Felicia Gressitt Bock
- 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 Waters
- 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