2020-3-17 17,600 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections
Roughly 17,600 items were added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections on March 17, as detailed below.
Collection | Number of additional items*1 | Availability | |
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Books | 16 | Online (Partially only at the NDL) | |
Rare Books and Old Materials | 600 | Online (Partially only at the NDL) | |
Modern Japanese political history materials *2 | 1,500 | Online (Partially only at the NDL) | |
Materials on the Allied Occupation of Japan | Records of General Headquarters, Far East Command | 300 | Online (Partially only at the NDL) |
Records of General Headquarters Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers | 900 | Online (Partially only at the NDL) | |
Records of the U.S. Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands | 11,000 | Only at the NDL | |
Others | 16 | Online | |
Gordon W. Prange Collection | Books | 1,100 | Only at the NDL |
Audio-Visual Materials | Audio materials | 1,300 | Only at the NDL |
Music manuscripts | 57 | Only at the NDL | |
Maps | 600 | Only at the NDL | |
Special Digital Collections | Documents of the Imperial Library | 200 | Online (Partially only at the NDL) |
Title, author, publisher, and other bibliographic data as well as the table of contents for all materials included in the NDL Digital Collections are searchable via the Internet.
With this addition, the total number of digitized materials the NDL provides has reached 2.74 million.
- *1Figure above 100 is the round number.
- *2Please see also the following news about Modern Japanese political history materials.
1,538 items from the collections of personal papers of political figures (Okubo Toshimichi Papers, etc.) were added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections.