"行政改革会議" (The Administrative Reform Council) was established during the administration of Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto as an advisory body directly under the Prime Minister. This collection consists of materials related to the Hashimoto administrative reforms, centered on the activities of the Administrative Reform Council, formerly owned by Hiroyasu Fujita (Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University), who served as a member of the Council and as chair of its Subcommittee on Institutional Issues.

This database features 20th-century content covering major events that shaped modern society—World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II.

It is a valuable resource not only for the study of economic thought, but also for those interested in the social forces unleashed by economic developments, as well as early 20th-century history, political science, philosophy, business and economic law, and women's studies.

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This database contains materials formerly owned by Kazuo Okochi and Mikio Sumiya, who served as presidents of the Council on Social Security System. The database contains a wide range of materials from the Council on Social Security System and other related councils and study groups, as well as surveys and statistics.

This is the reference books platform provided by Oxford University Press. (Subscribed titles are only available.)

Available titles (As of 2023.4.1)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (2005)
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (2010)
The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation (2016)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies (2019)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Public Administration (2022)
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (2009)

This is an e-book platform provided by Kinokuniya-Shoten focusing on academic books.

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The Making of the Modern World (MOMW) is a series of approximately 87,000 European publications on social and economic history spanning 500 years from the mid-15th century to the mid-20th century. The original holdings include The Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London, the Kress Library of Business and Economics at Harvard University, the Seligman Collection at Columbia University and the Hiroshima University of Economics, and the History of Economics Collection at the University of Kansas.

This is the digitized database of the Nichols Collection, a collection of early British newspapers and periodicals from the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, which includes over 400 titles in total, including newspapers and periodicals from the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as pamphlets and broadsides.

This is the online database of Yuho-Bunko Collection, which held by The Research Institute for Oriental Cultures Gakushuin University. It contains a large number of valuable materials on Korea during the colonial period. The collection includes memos, reports, and other internal documents left behind by bureaucrats and officials of the Governor-General's Office of Korea, which provide a glimpse into the actual state of colonial rule policies.

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