HomeWhat's NewWhat's NewGo to List of NewsGo to List of EventsGo to List of PublicationsGo to List of Recruitment Info.Go to List of Service StoppageGo to List of All What's NewList of What's NewApril 1st, 2026National Diet Library Vision 2026-2030: Co-create the Circulation of KnowledgeApril 1st, 2026Greetings from the Director General have been updatedMarch 31st, 2026Selected Articles from the Research and Legislative Reference BureauMarch 31st, 20265,200 items added to the National Diet Library Digital CollectionsMarch 27th, 2026Results of the user survey of FY2025 now availableMarch 24th, 2026Selected Articles from Current Awareness-EMarch 23rd, 2026Science and Technology Research Project reports released: “Global Research Collaboration and Economic Security: How Should We Respond in the Age of Closed Science?” “Circular economy” and “Robotics in the AI Era.”March 19th, 2026Renewed and Expanded: Digital Exhibition "Autograph manuscripts and original artwork of well-known people"March 18th, 2026Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitizationMarch 17th, 2026The ILCL will hold an event entitled Polish Children’s Books: Illustrator Piotr Socha and the Picture Book of Bees on Sunday, April 19, 2026March 17th, 2026Login Method for the National Diet Library Search and Related Services to Change in JuneMarch 12th, 2026Temporary closure of the Tokyo Main Library, the Kansai-kan and the International Library of Children's Literature in MayMarch 11th, 2026Unauthorized Access to a System Under Development (Third Report)March 5th, 2026NDL NEWSLETTER No. 267, UPDATEFebruary 24th, 2026NDLOCR-Lite have been releasedFebruary 18th, 2026Some microfilm materials will be unavailable while being duplicatedFebruary 9th, 2026The open dataset of bibliographic information of NDL's digital collections have been updatedFebruary 2nd, 2026Webinar: Information Sources for Japanese Studies (FY2025) (From Monday, February 2, to Monday, March 2, 2026)January 29th, 2026The number of digitized materials that can be full-text searched will increaseJanuary 29th, 202636,400 items added to the National Diet Library Digital CollectionsJanuary 23rd, 2026The open dataset of bibliographic data of Japanese publications in 2025 has been updatedJanuary 21st, 2026Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitizationJanuary 13th, 2026The Open Dataset of Bibliographic Data from "Introduction of Reference Books" in Research Navi has been updatedJanuary 9th, 2026The Council on the Organization of Information on Science and Technology submitted its proposalJanuary 5th, 2026KITO Junko appointed new Deputy Director General of the National Diet LibraryJanuary 5th, 2026New Year's GreetingsDecember 26th, 2025NDL NEWSLETTER No. 266, UPDATEDecember 25th, 2025Renewal of the NDL Web Archiving Project (WARP)December 24th, 20253,600 items added to the National Diet Library Digital CollectionsDecember 23rd, 2025Lecture—Connecting the World with Intelligence and Culture: Initiatives of the National Library of Korea will be held on February 4, 2026December 23rd, 2025Lecture: Magpie: Looking for Story Seeds Around Us by British author Frances Hardinge to be held at the International Library of Children's LiteratureDecember 18th, 2025The earliest available start date for requesting materials between the Tokyo Main Library and Kansai-kan, which can be specified when applying for a visit, will changeDecember 17th, 2025Renewal of the NDL Web Archiving Project (WARP) has been postponed.December 17th, 2025The National Diet Library and the International Library of Children’s Literature unveil completely redesigned websitesDecember 11th, 2025Renewal of the NDL Web Archiving Project (WARP) on 17 December 2025December 9th, 2025Tokyo Main Library expected to be crowded around the year-end and New Year December 2nd, 2025Library services at the year-end and New YearNovember 28th, 2025Unauthorized Access to a System Under Development (Second Report)November 27th, 202550,000 items added to the National Diet Library Digital CollectionsNovember 27th, 2025“Building, Sustaining, and Passing On to the Next Generation Earthquake Archives―The FY2025 Great East Japan Earthquake Archive Symposium” will be held on January 11, 2026November 26th, 2025Remote training program "A Guide to Studying Japanese Politics and Japanese Political History from Outside Japan" is now availableNovember 25th, 2025The International Library of Children's Literature will be open on Thursday, December 25November 14th, 2025Unauthorized Access to a System Under DevelopmentNovember 5th, 2025List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index (Online Periodicals), UPDATE (Japanese)November 5th, 2025List of indexed periodicals in Japanese Periodicals Index, UPDATE (Japanese)List of What's New of each yearFiscal Year 2026Fiscal Year 2025* Please see the Web Archiving Project(WARP) for news from before this time.NewsNewsPublicationsService Stoppage