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2023-8-29 27,000 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections

As of August 29, 2023, the National Diet Library has added roughly 27,000 items to the National Diet Library Digital Collections, as detailed below.

Collection Number of additional items Availability
Books 16,000 Only at the NDL
Periodicals 2,400 Primarily at the NDL and available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service
(partially Online)
Newspapers 500 Only at the NDL
Materials on the Allied Occupation of Japan Records of the General Headquarters Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers 4,800 Primarily online, partially at the NDL
Records of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey 5 Online
Others 200 Primarily online, partially at the NDL
Maps 55 Only at the NDL
Collections from Other Institutions The library of the Japan Meteorological Agency 3,600 Online

Items from the Materials on the Allied Occupation of Japan collection for which there are no copyright issues and materials from the Collections from Other Institutions, such as weather maps from the Library of the Japan Meteorological Agency* are available via the Internet. In addition, newly added volumes of periodicals that are already available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries or for Individuals will also be available via this Service.

Please note that these materials do not appear in full-text search results.

* Weather maps from the Library of the Japan Meteorological Agency cover the period from March 1883 to September 2022 and contain tables of regional observation data. This digital data was created and provided to the National Diet Library by the Library of the Japan Meteorological Agency.

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