No. 168, Aug. 2009

Minutes from 1911 to 1947 now available in the Database
System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet

Top page of the Database System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet (Japanese only)

Data for about 76,000 pages of the minutes of the Imperial Diet from the 28^th to 51^st sessions (December 1911 – March 1926) were added to the Database System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet, which enables users to search for and view the minutes on the Internet. The addition was made on May 7, 2009.

The minutes can be searched through their tables of contents and index, as well as by a speaker’s name. The text of the minutes can be viewed in image format.

With this addition, about 250,000 pages of minutes of the Imperial Diet sessions from the 28^th to the final 92^nd, including the post-World War II, became searchable. For the post-war period (September 1945 – March 1947), full-text search of the minutes is available. We are planning to complete the database, by adding data from the first session, before the end of this fiscal year.

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