No. 107, January 1999

New Publications from the NDL

Bibliography on English-translated Texts of Japanese Laws and Regulations

The National Diet Library published "Nihon Horei Eiyaku Syosi - Bibliography on English-translated Texts of Japanese Laws and Regulations" in diskette form. Containing 7,455 entries, the database includes not only information on statutes in force but also on repealed ones from 1868 to the present. 

This database is searchable by keyword(s), Japanese title, English title, statute number, date of publication or promulgation etc. Publication data and NDL call number are also provided to help locating the material. 
The diskette contains compressed text file (CSV) in MS-DOS format. To use this file as a database, user can import it to database software or spread sheet software to customize. Each field is encoded in ASCII. 
The bibliography was compiled by the Statutes and Parliamentary Documents Division of the National Diet Library, and is available for 2,625 yen from Eibun-Horei-Sha. 

For further information, write to:

Statute and Parliamentary Documents Division, 
Research and Legislative Reference Bureau, 
National Diet Library

1-10-1, Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku 
Tokyo, 100-8924 
JAPAN 
Fax: +81-3-3595-3802 

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