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List of News
- October 1, 2021News
Easing of restrictions on admission to the Tokyo Main Library starting Monday, October 4 - October 1, 2021News
Ending TLS 1.0/TLS 1.1 support - September 15, 2021News
The Kansai-kan will be closed on November 15 and November 16 - September 3, 2021News
Last day of service in 2021 at the Tokyo Main Library to be Saturday, December 25 - September 1, 2021News
Revised Copying Fees - August 26, 2021News
English translations of Kaleidoscope of Books digital exhibitions are now available. - August 2, 2021News
Temporary suspension of library services during the transfer of library materials from the Tokyo Main Library to the Kansai-kan. - July 27, 2021News
27,700 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - May 31, 2021News
Restrictions on admission to the Tokyo Main Library to be eased starting Tuesday, June 1 - May 28, 2021News
Former NDL Director General Dr. NAGAO Makoto Has Passed Away. - May 10, 2021News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - April 26, 2021News
Relocation of periodicals - April 19, 2021News
Selected Articles from the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau - April 1, 2021News
National Diet Library Vision 2021–2025: The Digital Shift at the National Diet Library - March 31, 2021News
Science and Technology Research Project reports released: "Trends and Issues of Social Media in the Era of Coronavirus," "Genome-Editing Technology and Its Impact," and "Technologies to Assist Older People and Related Social Issues" - March 16, 2021News
7,600 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - March 10, 2021News
Termination of the National Union Catalog of Newspapers in Japan Database - February 10, 2021News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - January 28, 2021News
A new English version of the Research Navi is released - January 27, 2021News
Webinar: "Libraries in the New Normal" will be held on February 26 - January 27, 2021News
Approximately 600 sound recordings of the Historical Recordings Collection (Rekion) are newly available online. - January 26, 2021News
ILCL exhibition "Sports and Children's Books" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - January 4, 2021News
New Year's Greetings - December 17, 2020News
Launch of the East Asia Digital Library - December 15, 2020News
ILCL exhibition "Books for healthy growth of children 2020" - December 7, 2020News
Revised Copying Fees - November 27, 2020News
Library services at the year-end and New Year - November 26, 2020News
483 items from the collections of personal papers of political figures (Ishiguro Tadanori Papers, etc.) were added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections. - November 12, 2020News
Ten Years Past and Ten Years Future—the FY2020 Great East Japan Earthquake Archive Symposium to be held online on January 11, 2021. - October 28, 2020News
Restrictions on admission to the Tokyo Main Library will be eased starting Wednesday, November 4 - October 15, 2020News
6th floor cafeteria at the Tokyo Main building to close on October 20, 2020 - September 4, 2020News
Temporary suspension of library services during the transfer of library materials from the Tokyo Main Library to the Kansai-kan - August 25, 2020News
The Launch of Japan Search - August 25, 2020News
15,700 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - August 24, 2020News
ILCL exhibition "Japanese Picture Book Authors of the Heisei Era (1989–2019)" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - July 31, 2020News
January 2021 changes to availability of NDL bibliographic data - July 8, 2020News
Attention!: Fake websites pretending to be the National Diet Library and the International Library of the Children's Literature - July 2, 2020News
Some materials will be unavailable during retrospective cataloging of bibliographic data - July 1, 2020News
Attention! Notice to Visitors - July 1, 2020News
Full reopening of the ILCL with restricted admission by numbered entrance tickets - July 1, 2020News
ILCL exhibition "Barrier-free Children's Books from Around the World - 2019 IBBY Selection of Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - July 1, 2020News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - June 24, 2020News
Selected Articles from the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau - June 23, 2020News
Dreamy library—a virtual tour of the ILCL in Ueno, Tokyo (3D View & VR Video) has been released - June 10, 2020News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - June 1, 2020News
Admission reservations to the Tokyo Main Library to be allocated by lottery (Update: October 13, 2021) - May 27, 2020News
Reopening of National Diet Library Facilities (Update: June 12) - May 18, 2020News
Extension of temporary closure and resumption of remote photoduplication services - April 21, 2020News
Attention! Notice of temporary suspension of remote photoduplication services - April 10, 2020News
Attention! Notice of temporary suspension of remote photoduplication services - April 10, 2020News
Temporary Closure Extended to Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - April 2, 2020News
Science and Technology Research Project reports released: "Fostering Future Researchers in Support of the Science-and-Technology-Oriented-Nation Concept," "Trends and Issues of Social Media," and "Science, Technology and Innovation Policy beyond 2020" - April 1, 2020News
YOSHINAGA Motonobu appointed new Director General of the National Diet Library - April 1, 2020News
Smoking is prohibited on the premises. - March 27, 2020News
Temporary Closure Extended to Wednesday, April 15, 2020 - March 25, 2020News
National Diet Library Award presented at Urban Data Challenge 2019 - March 24, 2020News
New versions of the Digital Exhibitions "Japanese Ex-libris Stamps" and "Incunabula" are now available - March 17, 2020News
17,600 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - March 17, 2020News
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. - March 16, 2020News
Temporary Closure Extended to Monday, March 30, 2020 - March 4, 2020News
Urgent Notice of Temporary Closure from March 5 to March 16 - March 2, 2020News
Temporary suspension of library services during the transfer of library materials from the Tokyo Main Library to the Kansai-kan. - February 27, 2020News
The lecture meeting National Libraries in the digital era―focusing on the strategies of the National Library of the Netherlands scheduled for March 17, 2020, has been canceled - February 25, 2020News
ILCL exhibition "Sports and Children's Books" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - January 30, 2020News
Media Arts Database (Manga) is now available via NDL Search - January 9, 2020News
Lecture meeting: "National Libraries in the digital era―focusing on the strategies of the National Library of the Netherlands" will be held on March 17 - December 24, 2019News
The National Diet Library Appoints Mr. TANAKA Hisanori Deputy Director General - December 23, 2019News
The NDL Unveils a New Search Interface for Four Databases about the National Diet - December 20, 2019News
ILCL to sponsor an exhibition on Books for Healthy Growth of Children 2019 - November 28, 2019News
International Symposium on the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive FY 2019: "Facilities and archives commemorating the disaster" will be held at Tohoku University on January 11, 2020. - November 27, 2019News
Library services at the year-end and New Year - November 27, 2019News
Approximately 1,000 sound recordings of the Historical Recordings Collection (Rekion) are newly available online. - November 26, 2019News
The NDL to Unveil a New Search Interface for Four Databases about the National Diet - November 19, 2019News
International Book Data Services Launched under the Marrakesh Treaty - November 8, 2019News
An open house will be held at the Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library. - October 31, 2019News
The ILCL has added new menus to its website in Simplified Chinese and Korean - October 11, 2019News
Some services may be suspended on Saturday, October 12 (Kansai-kan) - October 11, 2019News
Services will be stopped on Saturday, October 12 (Tokyo Main Library and International Library of Children's Literature) - October 10, 2019News
The NDL has extended the scope its acquisition of data for persons with print disabilities. - October 10, 2019News
Data Transmission Service for Persons with Print Disabilities Now Available Outside Japan - September 26, 2019News
Library Fair & Forum 2019 - September 10, 2019News
Photocopy Fee concerning Consumption Tax Hike on October 1, 2019 - September 3, 2019News
ILCL Lecture " Modern Russian Art and Picture Books with Igor Oleynikov (Winner of the 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award)" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - September 3, 2019News
ILCL exhibition "100 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art in Picture Books – From Dada to New Painting " will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - September 2, 2019News
Friday, November 15, 2019, International Policy Seminar "Current Topics in Employment and Earnings: Labor Market and Evidence-Based Policymaking (EBPM)" - August 16, 2019News
The Kansai-kan opens on schedule (August 16). - August 15, 2019News
The library hours at the Kansai-kan is now on schedule (August 15). - July 31, 2019News
Tokyo Main Library will be crowded during the summer season - July 23, 2019News
25,700 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - July 22, 2019News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - July 9, 2019News
ILCL exhibition " Children's books link the World - Hans Christian Andersen Award 2018 & IBBY Honour List 2018 " will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - July 4, 2019News
Some materials will be unavailable during retrospective cataloging of bibliographic data - June 26, 2019News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - June 25, 2019News
Selected Articles from the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau - June 12, 2019News
List of Online Services website now available in Simplified Chinese and Korean - May 10, 2019News
The 26th Kaleidoscope of Books "Expressing romance in words – the world of love letters" now available (Japanese) - May 7, 2019News
The bibliographic data of the National Diet Library can be freely used for various purposes. - April 26, 2019News
Updates：Greetings from the Director General - April 23, 2019News
Delivery of copies for remote photoduplication during Golden Week holidays from Saturday, April 27 to Monday, May 6 - April 22, 2019News
The NDL is now accepting applications for approval to receive the Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries - April 18, 2019News
National Diet Library expected to be crowded before and after Golden Week holidays - April 9, 2019News
Release of Next Digital Library content-based retrieval system prototype - April 5, 2019News
The March 29, 2019, issue of Research Materials features reports in Japanese "Forecast and Response to Extreme Weather," "Infrastructure Maintenance Technology," and "Current Trends in Biometrics." - March 29, 2019News
The Open Dataset of Bibliographic Data of Books on Japan in Foreign Languages is Now Available. - March 26, 2019News
Research Materials 2018-3 : "The United States in the 21st Century" (in Japanese) - March 25, 2019News
All of the items of the Katsu Kaishu Papers were added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections. - March 25, 2019News
4,900 items newly added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections. - March 13, 2019News
Data Transmission Service for Persons with Print Disabilities Now Available to Patrons of All Ages - March 13, 2019News
Audio Books of Academic Literature Produced by the NDL Now Available to Patrons of Any Age - February 28, 2019News
ILCL exhibition "The Land of Poetry and Legends: Children's Books in Iran" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - February 18, 2019News
Selected Articles from the Research and Legislative Reference Bureau - February 14, 2019News
Greetings from the Director General - February 7, 2019News
The 15th forum on the Collaborative Reference Database Project - February 4, 2019News
The National Diet Library announces the release of a one-click search tool: Writings and Recordings by Modern Japanese Historical Figures - February 4, 2019News
Digital object identifiers (DOI) for library materials digitized by the NDL - January 4, 2019News
New Year's Greetings - December 26, 2018News
ILCL to sponsor an exhibition on Books for Healthy Growth of Children 2018 - December 26, 2018News
The National Diet Library releases a one-click search tool: The Best of National Diet Library's Digital Library Collections - December 21, 2018News
ILCL Lecture "Cao Wenxuan: My Life, My Literature" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - December 21, 2018News
Some maps will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - December 10, 2018News
Thursday, February 7, 2019, International Policy Seminar: U.S. Foreign Policy and Japan - December 3, 2018News
Library services at the year-end and New Year - November 14, 2018News
70-anniversary Commemorative Exhibition: A Treasure Box of Books – The 70-year History of the National Diet Library and Its Collections will be held at the Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library. - November 14, 2018News
The Great East Japan Earthquake Archive Symposium FY 2018: "Conveying records related to earthquakes: natural disasters and disaster prevention education" will be held at Tohoku University on January 11, 2019. - November 8, 2018News
An open house will be held at the Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library. - November 2, 2018News
The NDL announces the launch of an English-language user interface to the WARP. - October 26, 2018News
Ohira Masayoshi Papers now available - September 21, 2018News
Approximately 1,500 sound recordings of the Historical Recordings Collection (Rekion) are newly available online. - September 19, 2018News
Temporary Unavailability of Some Online Services in October 2018 - September 14, 2018News
Library Fair & Forum 2018 - September 10, 2018News
Agreement with the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience - September 6, 2018News
About 20,900 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - September 5, 2018News
70th Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition Lecture "What I Learned from Books, What the Streets Taught Me" will be held at the Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library. - September 5, 2018News
Publication of a Report on the National Diet Library Questionnaire on Public Library Services for Persons with Special Needs - September 4, 2018News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - September 3, 2018News
Newspaper Reading Room starts service via NDL Online from October 1, 2018 - August 21, 2018News
ILCL exhibition "Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of Akai tori - authors and poets who contributed to this legendary children's magazine" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - August 9, 2018News
The small exhibition "Full bloom! The World of Gardening" will be held at the Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library. - August 1, 2018News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - July 17, 2018News
ILCL exhibition "Barrier-free Children's Books from Around the World - 2017 IBBY Selection of Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities" will be held.（International Library of Children's Literature） - July 5, 2018News
Tokyo Main Library will be crowded during the summer season - June 29, 2018News
Some materials will be unavailable during retrospective cataloging of bibliographic data - May 25, 2018News
International Symposium Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Legal Deposit System "The Past, Present, and Future of the Legal Deposit System―the way forward in a digital age" to be held on July 11, 2018 - May 23, 2018News
The NDL Digital Collections is now compliant with IIIF. - May 11, 2018News
New fee schedule for photoduplication services to take effect from July 2, 2018 - May 11, 2018News
ColBase and Cultural Heritage Online are Now Discoverable via NDL Search - April 18, 2018News
Library will be very crowded during the "Golden Week" Japanese holiday season from 27th April to 7th May - April 11, 2018News
Research Materials featuring reports in Japanese on such topics as "Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence/Robotics and Work/Employment," "Infrastructure for Data-Driven Society," and "Policy Decisions and Scientific Literacy" to be issued on March 30, 2018 - April 11, 2018News
Research Materials 2017-4 featuring "Trends and Issues of Autonomous Driving Technology" to be issued on March 16, 2018 (Japanese language only) - April 11, 2018News
Research Materials 2017-3 featuring a report entitled "The European Union at the Crossroads" to be issued on March 20, 2018 (Japanese language only) - March 28, 2018News
Photoduplication services to be available 30 minutes earlier at the NDL Kansai-kan - March 14, 2018News
All of the items of the document part of Ito Hirobumi Papers (No. 1) were added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections. - March 14, 2018News
About 5,800 items added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections - February 28, 2018News
Greetings from the Librarian - February 22, 2018News
One-click search tool "The photographic collections published from the Meiji era to the early Showa period" has been released. - February 19, 2018News
The small exhibition "Every dog has his book -From history to research and stories-" will be held at the Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library. - February 12, 2018News
The official websites of the National Diet Library and the International Library of Children’s Literature were renewed on February 12 - January 25, 2018News
ILCL exhibition "The Golden and Silver Brush Awards in the Netherlands - The world of children's books" will be held. (International Library of Children's Literature) - January 15, 2018News
International Symposium Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the National Diet Library’s Branch Library System "Innovation and the Role of the Public Sector" will be held on March 1 - January 15, 2018News
National Diet Library celebrates its 70th anniversary - January 11, 2018News
A lecture on the International Youth Library at the International Library of Children's Literature - January 4, 2018News
New Year’s Greetings - December 26, 2017News
Kazuko Sakata appointed deputy librarian of the National Diet Library - December 21, 2017News
ILCL to sponsor an exhibition on "Books for Healthy Growth of Children 2017:" - December 21, 2017News
Approximately 300 sound recordings of the Historical Recordings Collection (Rekion) are newly available online. - December 8, 2017News
Library services at the year-end and New Year - November 27, 2017News
Friday, February 23, 2018, International Policy Seminar: Current Situation and Issues of Foreign Workers in the EU with a Focus on Germany - November 8, 2017News
An open house will be held at the Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library. - November 8, 2017News
The 2017 fiscal year exhibition "The World of Japanese Book Illustration" will be held at the Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library. - October 31, 2017News
The Great East Japan Earthquake Archive Symposium FY 2017:"Significance of earthquake disaster archives carried out by prefectures damaged during the disaster"will be held at Tohoku University on January 11, 2018. - October 31, 2017News
A ceremony to present the Library of the Year 2017 award in the Librarianship category will be held on Wednesday, November 8, 2017. Scheduled to receive the award are the Collaborative Reference Database Project and its partners. - October 3, 2017News
The Collaborative Reference Database Project is Named Library of the Year 2017 in the Librarianship Category - October 2, 2017News
Library Fair & Forum 2017 - September 25, 2017News
Temporary Unavailability of Some Online Services in October 2017 - September 12, 2017News
More than 1,000,000 online publications are available in the NDL database. - September 8, 2017News
ILCL exhibition "A History of Japanese Picture Books―From picture scrolls to contemporary picture books" will be held. (International Library of Children's Literature) - August 1, 2017News
Some materials will be unavailable while undergoing digitization - July 27, 2017News
Tokyo Main Library will be crowded during the summer season - July 3, 2017News
ILCL exhibition "Children's books link the World - Hans Christian Andersen Award 2016 & IBBY Honour List 2016" will be held.(International Library of Children's Literature) - July 3, 2017News
Academic articles from CiNii now available via the NDL Digital Collections - June 26, 2017News
Some materials will be unavailable during retrospective cataloging of bibliographic data - June 16, 2017News
On June 16 (Fri), the National Diet Library (NDL) released the 25th Kaleidoscope of Books "Wagashi" - June 7, 2017News
The National Diet Library conducted research on the super-aged society and libraries - May 26, 2017News
8,300 issues added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections. - April 20, 2017News
Library will be very crowded during the "Golden Week" Japanese holiday season from 28th April to 6th May - April 18, 2017News
English version of the digital exhibition "Autograph manuscripts and original artwork of well-known people" is now online - April 17, 2017News
Message from the Librarian of the NDL at the Start of a New Fiscal Year - April 5, 2017News
Opening time is now 9:30 : Kansai-kan
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