This database l contains 13 million articles and advertisements published by the Asahi newspaper since its first issue in 1879. The database also includes regional versions of the Asahi newspaper, two weekly magazines (AERA and Weekly Asahi), a pictorial magazine (Asahi Graph), and a contemporary Japanese dictionary (??? - Chiezo) which has been published annually. Also includes a Japanese version of Who's Who and an historical photo archive. More than 1,000 articles are added to the database on a daily basis. User Guide: http://database.asahi.com/library2e/main/help/help.html
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The English-language Kobe Chronicle Weekly (1900-1941), and Japan Chronicle Daily (1929-1940) are the newspapers of record for Japans engagement with modernity and its emergence, through war, political and social upheaval and seismic social change in East Asia, onto the world stage in the first half of the twentieth century. Historians of East Asia have long seen the Japan Chronicle as a uniquely valuable resource. This well-informed, controversial but always readable source of news and opinion on Japan and East Asia offers an intriguing and lively Japanese complement to the North-China Herald (current coverage of the full-text database, 1900-1941).

Produced by the Japanese-Americans interned at assembly centers and relocation centers around the country during World War II, these newspapers provide a unique look into the daily lives of the people who were held in these camps. They include articles written in English and Japanese, typed, handwritten and drawn. They advertise community events, provide logistical information about the camps and relocation, report on news from the community, and include editorials. Included in this collection are 4600+ issues of 29 newspaper titles (in English, Japanese, or both) from camps in seven states.

Japan Times Ltd., founded in 1897, publishes Japans oldest English language newspaper. Today, the Japan Times is the countrys only independent English-language newspaper. In it readers will find the latest news and features from Japan: business, politics, commentary, culture, lifestyle, entertainment and sports. The Archive commences with no. 1 of the Japan Times (March 22, 1897) and covers The Japan Times & Mail (April 2, 1918-Nov. 10, 1940), the Japan Times and Advertiser (Nov. 11, 1940-Dec. 31, 1942), the Nippon Times (Jan. 1, 1943-June 30, 1956), Japan Times "Bakumatsu Period Online Edition" (September 1865-June 1866), Japan Times (March 22, 1897-), and the Japan Times (July 1, 1956 onwards).

The Mainichi Shimbun 毎⽇新聞 (“Daily News”) is the oldest existing Japanese daily newspaper with a history spanning over 140 years. During the transformative years of the Meiji era (1868-1912), two newspapers were established: the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun 東京日日新聞, in 1872, and the Osaka Nippo大阪日報, in 1876. The two papers merged in 1911 and were placed under the Mainichi Shimbun masthead in 1943. The "Maisaku" database provides access to over 6 million articles from Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun, Osaka Nippo, and Mainichi Shimbun from 1872 to the present and from the Mainichi Weekly Economist from 1989 to the present. In addition, users gain access to the following supplementary content: The Mainichi (English-language publication of MS, June 2008- present); Mainichi Opinion Polls (Mainichi Yoron Sāchi, more than 360 polls conducted since 1945 from the only newspaper poll database in Japan); “2,001 Major Events of the 20th Century” (a selection of over 2,000 major events, as described in series of articles published by MS over 100 years); and a history of the development of Mainichi Shimbun as a publication and a company.
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The database focuses on Japan-related matters containing the following:

• News Flashes - Approximately 1000 news flashes per day virtually in real-time.
• Article Archive Search - 500-200 articles updated per day. Backfile goes as far back as 1876. Sources include major business and financial newspapers published by Nikkei such as the Nikkei and Nikkei Business Daily.
• Corporate Profiles - Data compiled for over 20,000 Japanese firms including basic corporate information and financial data.
• People Search - Data available for more than 200,000 corporate executives, politicians and government officials in Japan.

Main language of this database is Japanese. News Flashes and Article Archive Search are also available in English. Sources of the database are reliable Nikkei sources.

Rafu Shimpo is the longest running Japanese American newspaper in the United States. The paper began in 1903 supporting the small but growing Japanese community in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles, California. By the 1940s it was the most widely circulated paper in the region and included a weekly English section for second generation Japanese Americans. Rafu Shimpo was completely suspended from 1942-1945, and no issues were produced. The Rafu Shimpo Digital Archive contains all obtainable published issues from 1914 through 2017. Included is an institutional subscription to rafu.com that allows for full access to the present day. The archive will grow with additional years’ worth of content added annually.

The Sports Industry History Database is a full-text database of the first sporting good trade newspaper in Japan, which started its publication in 1948. It is essentially the ONLY specialized newspaper resource available to study the development of sports, the sports industry, and sporting goods trade in Japan. In addition, this archival collection is not held at any institutions or libraries, including the National Diet Library, Japan; it is only available from the publisher of the newspaper itself. The full-text contents includes 900 issues of this newspaper and be searched by keywords.

Taiwan Nichinichi Shinpo (Taiwan Daily News) was the official and most prominent Japanese newspaper in Taiwan during the colonial period from 1895-1944. It has keyword search and browse by date capabilities. The full-text electronic resource is produced by Han Zhen Corporation (i.e. Transmission Books & Microinfo) in Taipei, based on the microfilms by Yumani in Japan.

Yomidas Rekishikan is an online database of over 11 million articles from every issue of Japans most trusted newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, since its first issue in 1874. The database has four parts: 1) the Meiji, Taisho and Showa Eras section (1874-1989), containing scans of the articles as they appeared in the original print editions 2) the Heisei Era section (September 1986 onwards), presenting articles in a text view, as well as a clipping view of the original article (December 2008 onwards) 3) the Daily Yomiuri section (September 1989 onwards), cataloging articles which have appeared in the Yomiuri Shimbuns English publication and 4) the Contemporary Whos Who, with searchable biographical data on over 26,000 prominent individuals as well as articles which pertain to them. Yomidas Rekishikan offers search pages and a Help section in English, to help find news articles of interest and explain the features of the database. As a further aid to non-Japanese, recent articles in the Japanese (Heisei era) and the English (Daily Yomiuri) editions are linked to each other to allow easy switching between the two versions of the article. Includes the full text of the Yomiuri Shinbun, from its initial publication in 1874 to date, as well as full text of the Daily Yomiuri, its English language equivalent, and a biographical dictionary of modern Japanese figures. Articles are keyword indexed and can be searched full-text.

“Bungei Shunju Archives” covers the first 25 years (1923-1950) of "Bungei Shunju," a monthly magazine established by Kikuchi Kan (1888-1948), a distinguished author, playwright, and editor. Over its first several years, the magazine mainly featured literary works and essays by novelists, many of whom gained prominence as leading writers of 20th-century Japan. KBooks Bungeishunju Archives consists of a full collection of all 323 issues of Bungeishunju from the first issue to December 1950 (excluding special issues). Around 90,000 pages of the original magazine are available in PDF format, and you can do full-text searches.

Developed by the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), J-Stage helps academic societies create and publish electronic journals in order to quickly disseminate Japan's science and technology research to as wide an audience as possible. Allows users to browse and search participating journals in English and Japanese.

Developed by the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), J-Stage helps academic societies create and publish electronic journals in order to quickly disseminate Japan's science and technology research to as wide an audience as possible. Allows users to browse and search participating journals in English and Japanese.

Japan Spotlight bridges the information gap between Japan and the rest of the world. This bimonthly publication serves as the source of in-depth, analytical, historical and cultural information on Japans trade, business, economic issues, current events, legislation and politics.

Complete set consists of approximately 700 issues of the periodical "Nihon shinrei," which was the official publication of the Japan Spiritualist Association and published 1915-1939. Part of 社会文化史データベース.

Complete set consists of over 400 rare popular entertainment and sex magazines published from the 1950s to the 1970s. Part of 社会文化史データベース.

This digital collection contains a complete set of 5,800 issues spanning the years 1895 to 2015 for Tōyō keizai shinpō 東洋経済新報 / Shūkan Tōyō Keizai 週刋東洋経済, one of Japan's leading magazines devoted to economic and business news. Topics covered by this periodical also extend to politics, diplomacy, contemporary social issues, and the media, among others. Issues from 1995 and earlier can be searched by terms found in the title of an article or an author’s name. Issues from 1996 and later, meanwhile, feature full-text searching.

Database service of Japanese Books in Print which containing bibliographic information for nearly 2 million books published in Japan from 1927 onwards. The database provides content summaries, tables of contents, and/or author information for books published after 1986 (but information for prewar monographs is especially noteworthy). Searchable from many facets, it is updated daily.

The eol AsiaOne database provides detailed information on corporate Japan and the East Asia region, including company and management profiles, annual reports, publicly filed financial and compliance documents, and press releases. It contains data on every publicly-traded company (over 4,000 in Japan and approx. 6000 in East Asia) and on private, unlisted companies (approximately 1,900) from 1984 to the present. The database is updated daily. Actual financial data can be downloaded. Available in both Japanese and English interfaces.
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JapanKnowledge Lib provides an array of reference sources, including Japanese and bilingual dictionaries, encyclopedias (in both Japanese and English), and other Japanese reference works focused on biographies, literature, maps, statistics, and other topics. This platform also hosts several collections of full-text, searchable digitized periodicals and monographs.

• Bijutsu shinpō 美術新報
• Bungei Shunju Archives 文藝春秋アーカイブズ
• Collection of modern authors’ manuscripts 近代作家原稿集
• Fuzoku gahō 風俗画報
• Kōyukai Zassh i校友会雑誌
• Taiyō 太陽
• Tōyō Bunko – The Eastern Library Series 東洋文庫
• Tōyō Keizai Archives 東洋経済アーカイブズ

The Koseisha Database provides indexing to journal/periodical articles published in Japanese from the early Meiji period (1868-1912) to the present, including academic journals and popular (general interest) magazines. The database merges data from CiNii (Citation Information by the National Institute of Informatics), a database of journal articles and research bulletins by academic institutions and societies. It also covers Zasshi Kiji Sakuin-Japanese Periodicals Index by the National Diet Library, Japan.

Japanese index to over 4 million articles in 8,500 journals and magazines covering medicine, science, law, humanities, popular culture, business and social sciences. Magazineplus also indexes about 6,000 annual reports and collections of academic articles ( ronbunshu ) published by Japanese academic institutions. ?MagazinePlus is the largest multi-disciplinary indexing database of academic periodicals and articles in Japan, covering 8,500 scholarly journals in various fields and general interest periodical titles, and providing bibliographical references to 4,850,000 articles from 1975 to the present. It also includes bibliographic information for 6,000 reports, theses, and articles in the areas of humanities and social science published by Japanese academic institutions. Periodicals indexed include scholarly titles from the National Diet Library's Zasshi kiji sakuin (1975- ) popular magazines indexed in Ja?naru indekkesu (1981- ) 1300 Japanese economic and business magazines (1981-1995) and 60 overseas business magazines (1984- ). Festchrifte (1945-2003), symposia and speeches (1945-2003), bulletins, transactions, conference proceedings (1945-2002) are also included. Areas covered include the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.

WhoPlus consists of three biographical databases: WHO I, which covers economics, society, and politics WHO II, which covers academia, literature, and journalism and WHO III, which covers the arts, entertainment, and sports plus five other biographical reference sources. Titles included in WhoPlus are: Jinbutsu bunken ja?oha?o who, which has information on about 320,000 individuals Jinbutsu refarensu jiten, which has information on 148,844 Japanese and 104,677 non-Japanese individuals Jiten kindai Nihon no senkakusha which has information on 1,100 18th-century Japanese Umi o koeta Nihon jinmei jiten which has information on 1,700 Japanese from the 16th to 19th centuries Chosho, chosha ja?oha?o Nichigai sentei ka?oshiki URL-sha?u and Sho no Jiten Fairu, a comprehensive database of Japanese national and local prizes and awards in science, arts, music, literature and culture, as well as biographical information on the more than 200,000 recipients of these awards.