This collection contains more than two hundred unpublished diaries, pocket planners, and notebooks kept by Saburo Okita (1914–1993), one of the most prominent postwar economists and economic policymakers of Japan.
Covering the period from the 1930s through the 1990s, these materials include minutes and notes from domestic and international meetings in which he participated in various official capacities, detailed schedules from his overseas missions, and extensive records of his discussions with key figures from around the world.

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.

Sample Topics Covered:

Commercial and Trade Relations Between Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union and the U.S.,1910-1963

This collection of U.S. State Department Central Classified Files relates to commercial and trade relations beginning in the Tsarist Russia period and extending through Khrushchev period in Soviet history. It contains a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats including materials on treaties, general conditions affecting trade, imports and exports, laws and regulations, customs administration, tariffs, and ports of entry activities.

"Toyo Keizai Shimpo" (currently "Weekly TOYO KEIZAI") is the oldest economic magazine in Japan, launched in 1895 and has continued to the present day.

The first period, from the first issue on November 15, 1895 to the December 15, 1945 issue, covers 50 years, approximately 2,300 volumes, and 170,000 pages are available in Kyushu University.

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 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.

This is the database of materials about diverse policies holded by Hiromi Arisawa, an economist who had a great influence on postwar economic policy.

This is the database of about 800 publications of The Tokyo Institute for Municipal Research, about municipal problems and local self-government.

Part 1: 1922-1945

[Main Materials]
Pamphlet on Municipal Problems, Annual Report on Japanese City

Part 2: 1946-2017

[Main Materials]
History of  Metropolitan Institution, Urban Research Report, Municipal Problems Study Series

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)
 

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.