Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University
Monumenta Nipponica Volume 5, Number 1 (1942)- MN 5:1 (1942) 1–37Das Familiengesetz des Hauses MitsuiTakaharu Mitsui
- MN 5:1 (1942) 38–51Der gegenwärtige Stand der Dialektforschung in JapanMisao Tōjō
- MN 5:1 (1942) 52–85Essai sur la Vie et l’Oeuvre de Ueda Akinari (1734–1809) (Part 4)Pierre Humbertclaude
- MN 5:1 (1942) 86–112Takayama Ukon: A Critical EssayJohannes Laures
- MN 5:1 (1942) 113–43Der erste Tabak in JapanDorotheus Schilling
- MN 5:1 (1942) 167–87Buddhism as Viewed by Two Tokugawa Confucianists: Itō Jinsai’s Letter to Dōkō and its Refutation by Satō NaokataJoseph J. Spae
- MN 5:1 (1942) 175–87Itō Jinsai’s Letter to Dōkō and its Refutation by Satō NaokataJinsai Itō and Satō Naokata, Translated by Joseph J. Spae
- MN 5:1 (1942) 188–202Tachibana-no-Hayanari-den —194Hermann Bohner
- MN 5:1 (1942) 203–207Remarks on the Study of Meiji LiteratureMasanobu Oda
- MN 5:1 (1942) 208–13Neue Bilderwerke zur japanischen ArchitekturDietrich Seckel
- MN 5:1 (1942) 214–18Japanese Sinology: Reflexions on a Recent PublicationJoseph J. Spae
- MN 5:1 (1942) 219–24An Old Church Calendar in JapaneseNaojirō Murakami
- MN 5:1 (1942) 225–33Irmão Lourenço, the First Japanese Lay-Brother of the Society of Jesus and his LetterArimichi Ebisawa
- MN 5:1 (1942) 234–43Doctrina en dix Articles et Doctrina en onze ArticlesPierre Humbertclaude
- MN 5:1 (1942) 244–45Cosme de Magalhaens et le Catéchisme latin de ValignanoPierre Humbertclaude
- MN 5:1 (1942) 246–53The End of Padre Sidotti: Some New DiscoveriesR. Tassinari
- MN 5:1 (1942) 254Paulo Navarro’s Manuscript on the Mother of God DiscoveredJohannes Laures
- MN 5:1 (1942) 255–58Northeastern Asia. A Selected Bibliography. Contributions to the Bibliography of the Relations of China, Russia and Japan, with Special Reference to Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, and Eastern Siberia, in Oriental and European Languages by Robert J. KernerHans Müller
- MN 5:1 (1942) 258–59Supplement to Kirishitan Bunko by Johannes LauresPierre Humbertclaude
- MN 5:1 (1942) 259–61The Outline of the Korean Dialects by Shimpei OguraOtto Karow
- MN 5:1 (1942) 261–64Gairaigo-Jiten. (A Dictionary of Foreign Words) by Arakawa SobeiJ. M. Eylenbosch
- MN 5:1 (1942) 264–66Kokugaku, Sono Seiritsu to Kokubungaku to no Kankei (Die Kokugaku, ihre Entstehung und Beziehung zur japanischen Literatur) by Hisamatsu SenichiHeinrich Dumoulin
- MN 5:1 (1942) 266–67Japanisches Internationales und Interlokales Privatrecht. Allgemeine Lehren by Richard HuchPeter J. Herzog
- MN 5:1 (1942) 267–69Archiv des Öffentlichen Rechts by H. Gerber, O. Koellreutter, F. A. MedicusPeter J. Herzog
- MN 5:1 (1942) 269–71Nippon Seiji no Kijun (Die Norm des japanischen Staatslebens) by Yasuzō SuzukiJohannes Siemes
- MN 5:1 (1942) 271–72Nippon Kirishitan Bunka-Shi. (History of Kirishitan Culture in Japan) by Izuru ShimmuraHubert Cieslik
- MN 5:1 (1942) 272–79Dattan Hyōryūki no Kenkyū by M. Kazuki SonodaL. Gibert
- MN 5:1 (1942) 279–80Infiltrations Occidentales au Japon avant la Reouverture du Dix-Neuvieme Siécle. Bulletin de la Maison Franco-Japonaise, t. XI (1939) NN. 1–4 by Henri Bernard, Pierre Humbertclaude, Maurice PrunierJohannes Laures
- MN 5:1 (1942) 280Macau e a Sua DiocesePierre Humbertclaude
- MN 5:1 (1942) 281–84Japan-Handbuch by M. RammingDietrich Seckel
- MN 5:1 (1942) 285Index of Japanese Painters by The Society of Friends of Eastern ArtDietrich Seckel
- MN 5:1 (1942) 286Tōhō Gakuhō. Journal of Oriental StudiesRobert Hans van Gulik