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This is the database of about 800 publications of The Tokyo Institute for Municipal Research, about municipal problems and local self-government.
[Main Materials]
Pamphlet on Municipal Problems, Annual Report on Japanese City
[Main Materials]
History of Metropolitan Institution, Urban Research Report, Municipal Problems Study Series
Ichikawa Fusae （1893‒1981）was a politician and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.
This database contains the vast amount of original documents she collected that remain at the Fusae Ichikawa Memorial Association "Women and Politics" Center.
The collection covers materials related to the women's movement from the prewar to the postwar period, beginning with the "New Women's Association" founded in 1919 with Hiratsuka and others, and ending with the postwar "New Japan Women's League" (founded in 1945).
An extensive collection of documents belonging to Takeo Miki (1907-88), who served as 66th Prime Minister of Japan. In addition to primary sources showing the international situation particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and in Soviet-Chinese-US relations during the turbulent years of the 1960s to‘80s, Related Documents on Takeo Miki serves as a rich source of information on Japanese domestic affairs, including administrative and financial reform, pollution and environmental problems, social security, and issues in education.
The First Period (Sato Eisaku Papers)
Unpublished materials left by Minoru Kusuda (1924-2003), the chief secretary who supported the Eisaku Sato administration (1964-1972).
The documents are virtually the "Sato Eisaku Papers," consisting of first-class, top-secret materials on everything from diplomacy to domestic politics.
This is a large collection of over 4,000 items, and is an indispensable basic historical document for the future of postwar history.
The former collection of Teiji Yabe (1902-1967), a political scientist who was deeply involved in realpolitik before and after World War II. The collection contains a vast amount of original materials, amounting to approximately 6,000 items left in Yabe's possession.
The collection covers the period from the prewar period to the late 1960s, and includes Yabe's own handwritings and correspondence as well as internal documents of various organizations he was involved with from the prewar to the postwar period.
A large cache of documents left by Masayoshi Ohira (1910-1980), 68th and 69th Prime Minister of Japan.
You can search statistical data on every fields by prefecture, which you have to group together from huge collection of books and microfilms without this database.
For example, you can easily get the data like following:
- Transition of rice production by prefecture in Meiji period
- Number of teachers of a certain prefecture by sex and age in prewar period
[Contents]
0.9 million images, 1.5 million records of Prefectural Documents on Statistics (1873-1972)
The National Diet Library Online Search and Request Service (NDL Online) is the catalog of library materials and digital contents at the National Diet Library in Japan.
Scope of the search
J-STAGE is a platform for scholarly publications in Japan. It is developed and managed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). JST launched J-STAGE with the aim to:
- rapidly circulate research in science, technology, humanities and social sciences in Japan.
- strengthen the international dissemination of information from Japan to the rest of the world.
- promote the publication of open access content from Japan's academic societies and research organizations.
JAPAN COMPANY HANDBOOK is the basic company information magazine for job hunting. The first issue was published in 1936. This handbook can be used for comparing various type of industries and companies.
Available from 1936 issue 1 to 2016 issue 4.
