Japan Platform for Patent Information offers the public access to IP Gazettes of the JPO free of charge through the Internet.

This is the full text database of documents groups involved in the International Trade and Industry Policy History Historical Materials.

This online database is comprised of three kinds of documents group.

■Primary Historical Materials

These historical materials are document group concerned with history of policy of the Commercial and Industrial Ministry and Ministry of International Trade and Industry which were transferred in 2012 from National Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry.

■Official History

“NDL Search” is a new search service of National Diet Library.
This service aims to be an access point from which you can use affluent knowledge from public libraries, archives, museums, institutes of academic research and NDL.

- Search target of the National Diet Library search
- Help - National Diet Library search

The collective search of a chemical book (chemical handbook, experiment chemistry lecture, standard scientific term dictionary) published in Japan is possible.

Part III: Materials related to Chambers of Commerce and Industry throughout Japan and the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Email address authentication is required when executing the download.

Maruzen has provided Japanese ebooks platform specialized academic books.
You can search by titles, authors, and full text. And you can also download the PDF files and print out from each pages.

The number of downloadable pages varies depending on the contents.
Please check the "Print/Save" screen for each content.

Authentication by email address is required to download the file. You must use an email address from the Kyushu University domain (~.kyushu-u.ac.jp)

The essentioal tool for any study of business, economic or industrial history.
You can overlook business activities of Japanese companies from Meiji to Showa period.

【Financial Reports】
9,000 companies / 160,000 records
Financial reports covering the period from Meiji to the 1950 Commercial Code amendments

【Prospectuses】
2,000 companies / 4,700 records
Most are from the 1940s and early 1950s, but also include prewar company prospectuses.

J-GLOBAL is a project to connect an array of information, including information on research pappers and patents, analyze and visualize such information and provide knowledge that can help the national government and private companies in the decision-making to develop policies and strategies.

Online catalog of Fukuoka Prefectural Library.