Links to databases of manuscripts and other resources owned by National Institute of Japanese Literature.

You can search statistics announced by each ministry or Cabinet Office or Bank of Japan.

Full-text database of the Diet session proceedings since the 1st session (May, 1947).

[Japanese only]

"Research Navi" provides some English contents to support learning about Japan and Asia.

Japan Center for Asian Historical Records （JACAR） digitalizes and provides access through the Internet to Asia-related records dating from the early Meiji era to the end of the Pacific War in the possession of important collecting institutions of pre-war official documents, The National Archives of Japan, Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and National Institute for Defense Studies of the Ministry of Defense.

researchmap is the only Web site that collects and provides scientific information on research institutes, researchers, research projects and research resources in Japan.

KAKEN covers research conducted with grants-in-aid for scientific research provided by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) or the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). It contains records of the data made available at the start of each project (adopted topics), and outlines of the project deliverables (research reports and outlines of deliverables).

Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) is a database that collects and provides metadata of the contents registered in institutional repositories in Japan.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.