Monumenta Nipponica Volume 12, Number 1/2, 1956
MN 12:1/2 (1956) 1–11L’Apport spirituel de l’Extrême-Orient: Quelques réflexions personnellesPierre Teilhard de Chardin- MN 12:1/2 (1956) 13–49Far Eastern Monkey LoreU. A. Casal
- MN 12:1/2 (1956) 51–63Verwünschung in der altjapanischen KultspracheAnton Lämmerhirt
- MN 12:1/2 (1956) 65–103The World Conception of Chu Tao-sheng (Part 1)Walter Liebenthal
- MN 12:1/2 (1956) 105–19The Japanese Legal System 1945–1955: Changes in RetrospectSakae Wagatsuma
- MN 12:1/2 (1956) 157–58Buddhist Meditation by Edward ConzeHeinrich Dumoulin
- MN 12:1/2 (1956) 158–61Bungaku ni Arawaretaru Kokumin-Shisō no Kenkyū by Tsuda SōkichiHorst Hammitzsch
- MN 12:1/2 (1956) 161–64The Kagerō Nikki. Journal of a 10th Century Noblewoman by Edward SeidenstickerDonald Keene
- MN 12:1/2 (1956) 164–65Understanding the Japanese Mind by James Clark MoloneyWilhelm Schiffer
- MN 12:1/2 (1956) 165Japan’s Decision to Surrender by Robert J. C. ButowWilhelm Schiffer
- MN 12:1/2 (1956) 166–67Islamologia by Félix M. Pareja, Alesandro Bausani, Ludwig von HertlingHenri Bernard-Maitre