Wasan is the native Japanese mathematics of the Edo period. This digital exhibition shows Wasan materials with their bibliography. It also gives an outline of Wasan history and columns about it.(available since December 2011)

This exhibition gives an outline of international expositions and Japanese industrial exhibitions in the late 19th century and introduces the industrial technology development of the time.
(Japanese version available since June 2010, the English version added in March 2011)

This exhibition introduces the history of Japan-Netherlands exchange in two parts. Old materials including Dutch books from our collection, documents, diaries, etc. are displayed.
(available since December 2009)

This exhibition introduces documents, newspaper articles, etc. related to Japanese immigration to Brazil from our collections.
(Japanese and Portuguese versions available since March 2009)

This exhibition aims to provide electronically on the website the materials of the special exhibitions held in 2008 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the National Diet Library. This exhibition introduces rare materials categorized into three themes: "Carrying on the Classics," "Intellectual Exchange," and "Varieties of “ehon” books." (available since November 2008)

This exhibition introduces photographs of famous buildings and sights from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, selected from the photo books in our collection.
(Tokyo version available since August 2007; Kansai version since March 2008.)

This exhibition presents representative documents related to modern and contemporary Japanese political history.
(available since July 2006, Chapter 6 added since November 2010)

This exhibition presents materials related to the natural history of the Edo era. The contents are based on the special exhibition held in 2005 with additional materials provided in digital form under the title "Eyes to Nature."(In Japanese)
(available since December 2005)

This exhibition presents incunabula, books that were printed using metal type up to the year 1500.
(available since August 2004)

This exhibition presents portrait photographs of statesmen, government officials, military officers, businessmen, scholars, cultural figures and others who had an impact on building modern Japanese society.
(available since July 2004; added in March 2007 and in January 2013)

This exhibition follows the trail of book collectors in Japan through ex-libris ownership stamps in books.
(available since July 2003)

This exhibition shows the important documents with commentaries concerning the formulation of the Constitution of Japan.
(revised and completed in May 2004)

This page offers an accessible introduction to the history of the Japanese calendar with digital images of the Daisho-reki calendar, which was popular in the Edo period.
(available since October 2002)

This digital exhibition consists of three parts: "Scenic Mementos of Japan". "Vienna International Exposition, " and "Modern Japanese Political History Materials."
(available since August 2000)

The contents of an exhibition held in 1998 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the NDL have been reproduced in digital form.
(Japanese version only, available since June 1998)

These small digital exhibitions introduce books on various themes, topical or of interest, from the NDL collections. The pamphlets of regular exhibitions that finished in 2008 are also available.
(available since May 2009)

This exhibition presents about 50 books representative of the 19th century, at the dawn of modern children's literature, from the Winnington-Ingram Collection comprising children’s books of Great Britain from the 18th to 20th centuries.
(available since April 2013)

This exhibition introduces Japanese children’s books translated in thirty countries and regions, and also their Japanese originals.
(Japanese version available since March 2010; English version added in January 2012)

The building that now houses of the International Library of Children's Literature was originally built in 1906 as the Imperial Library. Photographs and other materials of buildings in each era and place are available.(In Japanese)
(available since September 2006)

The ILCL edits images of valuable picture books published inside and outside Japan and introduces the process of the development of the "picture book" genre from its birth to the present.
(available since May 2000; new contents added in May every year from 2005 to 2012)