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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.

items by collections
Collection Number of additional items*1 Availability
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.

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