National Diet Library

This site provides a search guide and helps you find information resources such as books and websites. (Mainly in Japanese: some are also available in English.)

• RESEARCH NAVI (Mainly in Japanese)

This page provides database of record of reference services in Japanese libraries and search guide.

• Collaborative Reference Database (Japanese only)

This page introduces a project that navigates to databases on the Internet. Database Navigation Service is only in Japanese.

• Database Navigation Service (Dnavi)

This page will provide bibliographic information of books on Japan in Western languages newly acquired by the NDL. It will be updated every three month.

• Books on Japan

This page gives an outline of the holdings of the Parliamentary Documents and Official Publications Room, including parliamentary documents, official gazettes, statute books, publications of government offices of Japan and other countries and documents of international organizations. Links to the digital versions of these are also available. It is a part of "RESEARCH NAVI."

• Parliamentary Documents and Official Publications of Japanese and Foreign Governments (Parliamentary Documents and Official Publications Room)

Approximately 30,000 volumes of Asian language materials (including the Middle East and North Africa), Japanese and Western language reference books, newspapers and periodicals are available on the open shelves.

• Asian Resources Room