NII-REO provides access to the following three databases. It also allows a cross-search among the databases.
Manual
■ Nineteenth / Twentieth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers(19c HCPP & 20c HCPP)
Contains British House of Commons parliamentary papers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (1801-2004).
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■ Eighteenth Century British Parliamentary Papers (18c HCPP)
Contains parliamentary papers of both the House of Commons and House of Lords, stenographic records of proceedings, journals, etc.
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■ Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Search within the total 200,000 reels (33,000,000 pages) of text of many printed materials published in Britain and British colonies from 1701 to 1800, along with other printed materials in English including books, Bibles, advertisements, manuals, music scores, and yearbooks published in other areas.
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■ Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Digitalized editions of books written in English or published in England between 1475 and 1700.
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Database of the English-language newspaper North China Daily News, launched in Shanghai in 1850. It was one of the most influential foreign newspapers of its time. The full run from 1923 to 1941 is currently accessible.
URL http://primarysources.brillonline.com/browse/north-china-daily-news
The world’s largest bibliographical database, including books, periodicals, musical scores, maps, and audio-visual materials.
URL https://internationalrescenterjapanesestudies.on.worldcat.org
Provides online a vast collection of documents relating to Ōhira Masayoshi (1910–1980), 68th and 69th prime minister of Japan (December 1978 to June 1980). These primary sources on postwar Japanese political history consist of diverse materials, ranging from handwritten diaries, notebooks and letters, to government agency (ministries of foreign affairs, international trade and industry, etc.) documents, manuscripts of speeches and responses to questions in the Diet, and election-related materials. Included also are records of interviews with important figures in politics and business conducted in the writing of Ōhira’s official biography.
The database contains a total of more than 200 unpublished diaries, pocket notebooks (techō), and notebooks kept by leading postwar economist and economy ministry official Ōkita Saburō (1914–1993). The documents include Ōkita’s careful records of his notes of meetings he attended in Japan and overseas in the official capacity of his various posts, the details of his schedule on work-related trips overseas, and notes of meetings with important figures from various countries.Using the Service
Web Oya-bunko is catalog of magazine articles in the Oya Soichi Library .
Search for articles in Japanese general/popular magazines (weeklies, general-interest magazines, women’s magazines, etc.) from 1888 to the present.
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Access the text of some 2,000 electronic journals published by Elsevier (issues from 1998 onward only).
There are accessible and non-accessible parts in the Science Direct by usual process within Nichibunken. If you would like to use the non-accessible part of the service, the limited ID and password can be supplied. For further information, please contact riyou@nichibun.ac.jp or consult the circulation staff at the library.
Database of articles in more than 15,600 scholarly journals issued by over 4,000 publishers, including Elsevier.
In addition to data on abstracts, it provides reference and citation links for articles published from 1996 onward
Contains 458 issues of 29 popular entertainment magazines, sex magazines, and circle group magazines published from the 1950s to the 1970s.
From among the vast former collection of Wagatsuma Sakae (1897–1973), leading postwar scholar of civil law, this online database contains documents in the fields of constitutional law, judicial institutions, civil law, civil litigation, land and building leases, and nuclear power.
Access the text of all of about 1,600 electronic journals and 20,000 electronic books published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Consists of some 6,000 primary documents in the former collection of Yabe Teiji (1902–1967), a political scientist who was deeply involved in actual politics before, during, and after World War II.
Note: “Supplements” are also available. (Access by checking the tab at “Yabe Teiji Documents Supplement” in the Search window.)
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Digital archive of some 12 million articles of the Yomiuri shimbun national daily newspaper (Japanese) from its first issue published in 1874 (Meiji 7) to the most recent issue (up to previous day).
"Yomidas History Museum” Changed to "Yomidas" in January 2024.
Includes mainly rare documents from the Yuho Bunko collection, extending from the time of the Government-General of Korea during Japanese colonial rule to the post-World War II repatriation of Japanese from Korea and Japanese external assets there as recorded by the Relief Society for Japanese Returnees from Korea (Chosen Hikiage Doho Sewakai) and the Association of Business Owners in Korea (Chosen Jigyosha Kai).
Complete database of Japanese magazines and journals from the Meiji era to the first half of the Showa era, including data of some local journals.
Search for journal articles published in Japan (former territories included) from the Meiji era onward.
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