"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.

The database allows you to search and view Asahi Shimbun articles.
 Searches can be performed by publication date, and the entire page can be viewed while zooming in and out.

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1. Asahi Shimbun (1985~), AERA, Weekly Asahi
For Asahi Shimbun pages from November 2005 onward, clipping images are available.
AERA is searchable from its May 1988 inaugural issue, and the news pages of Weekly Asahi are searchable from April 2000.

The database allows you to search and view articles from the Mainichi Shimbun's first issue to the present.

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Newspaper Page Images: From the founding in Meiji 5 (1872) to 1999
Newspaper article text: 1872 to present
Weekly Economist: 1989–present
Mainichi Public Opinion Search: Public Opinion Survey Database

The database allows you to search and view approximately 12 million articles from the first issue of the Yomiuri Shimbun to the latest edition.

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 a database of source documents that trace the footsteps of defence policy, consisting of the 'Defence Agency Historical Materials', a group of documents collected for the compilation of the Defence Agency History, and the 'Kubo Documents' and 'Ito Documents', personal documents of defence bureaucrats.