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This is the digital archive of "Nihon Shinrei" (first published in 1915 - discontinued in 1939, approximately 700 issues), an organ published by the Japanese Psychic Society.
Among the psychotherapy boom that swept through the late Meiji and Taisho eras, the society, founded in 1908, is known as the largest spiritual art organization that provides psychic treatment (psychotherapy) through its network of temples nationwide.
This collection, owned by Nishimatsu Gakusha University, consists of manuscripts, drafts, creative notes and memos of Yokomizo Seishi (1902-1981), scenarios of his works made into films, and clippings from magazines and monographs with his own additions and corrections.
This collection is important not only for understanding Yokomizo's literary works, but also in the fields of modern literature, film and video, media, and the history of publishing culture.
The Ministry of Justice continued to conduct research, collect materials, and compile a general history and other materials related to the Tokyo Trials and war crimes until the 1970s based on the "Outline of the Plan for the Collection of Materials Related to the War Trials" decided by the Ministry Council in 1956.
This database provides cross-sectional access to the vast amount of compiled and collected materials created by the Ministry of Justice during that time.
It consists of extensive source documents from the war to the 1970s.
This is the database of materials demonstrating the footprint of institutional reform design of local self-government for about half a century after the war.
It collects a huge amount of minutes and handouts including recommendations and reports of Local Administrative Investigation Committee Meeting, Local System Investigation Committee, and Decentralization Promotion Committee.
This database contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period, .amounting to more than 36,000 printed works (2,300,000 pages).
It is based on Charles Evans’ renowned “American Bibliography” and Roger Bristol’s critical supplement and 1,200 newly registered materials are added to it.
This is the database of about 800 publications of The Tokyo Institute for Municipal Research, about municipal problems and local self-government.
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Pamphlet on Municipal Problems, Annual Report on Japanese City
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History of Metropolitan Institution, Urban Research Report, Municipal Problems Study Series
Sustainable Development Goals Online (SDGO) is an interdisciplinary collection of digital content themed around the SDGs. The collection includes more than 12,000 articles and chapters in an online library covering the 17 SDGs.
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.
This database contains the all of the texts (in accordance with Adam & Tannery edition, which is still in the position of critical edition) of René Descartes (1596-1650), who is one of the representative philosophers of the seventeenth century. It is the essential tool for studies of contemporary Cartesian philosophy, in particular, in respect of that it has the search function covering each of the works or the all of the texts.
＊You can use also Past Masters Commons Series, which is Open Titles. (The Works of Machiavelli, Montaigne, Montesquieu etc. are available.)
