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2025-10-29 16,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections

As of October, 2025, 16,000 items have been added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections, as detailed below.

Collection Number of additional items
Books 3,200
Rare Books and Old Materials 1,200
Audio-Visual Materials 34
Maps 100
Collections from Other Institutions (The Chugoku Shimbun Co., Ltd.) 11,100
Collections from Other Institutions (Hokkaido University Library, Ministry of Justice Library) 66

2,973 broadcast scripts have been made available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service. These are TV and radio scripts of programs that were broadcast before 1981 and donated to the NDL by the Consortium for the Promotion of Broadcast Script Archives in Japan.

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