No. 136, April 2004

"Bibliography of Persons in Modern Japanese Politics"
is now available on the NDL website!

This is an abridged translation of an article in
the NDL Monthly Bulletin No. 514 (January 2004).

The "Bibliography of Persons in Modern Japanese Politics" has been available on the NDL website since December 19, 2003.

This is a bibliography of selected Japanese books that have been published since the Meiji period about Japanese involved with modern Japanese politics. You can search materials by the person's name in this database. It is particularly useful for searching information on leading figures in politics (only katakana and kanji can be used for search). This database covers a wider spectrum of persons than just politicians. Types of materials range from autobiographies and biographies to memoirs, diaries, essays, criticisms and lectures. In some cases, you can search materials that cannot be searched by subject retrieval of the person's name in the NDL-OPAC.

"Bibliography of Persons in Modern Japanese Politics" on the web (Japanese only)

How to access
Go to "Bibliography of Persons in Modern Japanese Politics" from our website
* From May 11, 2009, moved to http://rnavi.ndl.go.jp/seiji/ . Above screen image is previous one.
 

Persons listed in this bibliography 
Emperors, cabinet ministers, members of the Diet, members of the Chamber of Elders, councillors of the Privy Council, leaders of political parties, diplomats, administrators (director of a Ministry and above), army-navy military officers (general and above), members of prefectural assemblies, governors and mayors. Political philosophers and military lower than general are also included, if they had a historic influence on politics.

Range of selected materials
The major part of the materials is autobiographies, biographies, memoirs, diaries, mourning books and prosopographies. Besides them, the materials in which the thought and berief of the person is mentioned and which contains biographical elements are selected from anecdotes, essays, criticisms, travel notes, posthumous manuscripts, lectures and reports to the Diet. In principle, they describe the person in more than three pages.

The number of data
6,789 persons, 42,077 entries (as of January 7, 2004) 

up