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A. Asahi Shimbun Cross-Search (former Kikuzô II Visual)
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Online database of Asahi shimbun articles. Complete search and full text of articles and images of pages and clippings. Accessible only within Nichibunken.
- Articles 1985-
- Asahi Shimbun Main edition (from August 1984)
- Asahi Shimbun coverage (from June 1988)
- The Asahi Shimbun Digital (from May 2011)
- AERA (weekly magazine, printed in gravure; beginning with the inaugural issue in May 1988)
- 週刊朝日 (Shukan Asahi) (weekly; news pages, beginning with the April issue, 2000)
- Digitized Archive 1879-1999
- Image Database of Meiji and Taisho Period (from the inaugural issue in 1879 to 1926; Tokyo and Osaka editions)
- Image Database of Pre-war Showa Period (1926-1945)
- Image Database of Post-WWII Showa Period (1945-1989)
- Image Database of Regional pages (from 1935 to 1945)
- Overseas Editions (from 1935 to 1945)
- Contemporary Words Chiezo
- English-language News Database
- Who's Who Database (Jinbutsu database)
- Asahi Graph
- Historical Photo Archive (historical photo archive; some 10,000 photographs taken from around the time of the Manchurian Incident in 1931 to the defeat in World War II in 1945)
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