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Maisaku: Mainichi Newspaper database — Trial ended 31 August 2022

Maisaku (每索) is the Online Database for Mainichi Shimbun (每日新聞社), one of the three major Japanese newspapers and the oldest daily newspaper in Japan. Maisaku provides: Mainichi Shimbun (1872-present); Weekly Economist (1989-present); The Mainichi (English) (2008-present); and results from Public Opinion Polls conducted by Mainichi Shimbun (1945-2021). Users can also browse today’s news and breakingContinue reading “Maisaku: Mainichi Newspaper database — Trial ended 31 August 2022”

KinoDen (Kinokuniya Digital Library) – Trial ended 31 May 2020

KinoDen is a cloud-based digital library service provided through the Internet. It was launched in 2018 with academic Japanese ebooks including recent titles.  NB: The entire contents of most eBooks are freely accessible for five minutes. Page restrictions apply to certain titles. Please contact Tsuyoshi Harada for the access serial code as well with comments.

Maruzen eBook Library (MeL) – Trial ended 31 May 2020

Maruzen eBook Library is an aggregated eBook service for academic, research and educational institutions that MARUZEN-YUSHODO has originally been developing and operating. MeL has the largest line-up of Japanese academic and educational eBooks and journal backfiles (some current), and is recently expanding its line up of English academic and educational eBooks as well. NB: PrintingContinue reading “Maruzen eBook Library (MeL) – Trial ended 31 May 2020”

Kizuko II Visual for Libraries – Trial ended 30 Oct 2015

Kikuzo II Visual, an online commercial database of the Asahi Shimbun, was widely refurbished in April 2010. By adding image data of the pages printed during the Meiji, the Taisho and the early Showa periods, it became one of the largest newspaper databases of Japan, and presently contains more than 13 million items of theContinue reading “Kizuko II Visual for Libraries – Trial ended 30 Oct 2015”

Japan Chronicle Online – Trial ended 22 December 2014

The English-language Japan Chronicle Weekly (1902 – 1940) is the newspaper of record for Japan’s engagement with modernity and its emergence, through war, political and social upheaval and seismic social change in East Asia, onto the world stage in the first half of the twentieth century. Historians of East Asia have long seen the JapanContinue reading “Japan Chronicle Online – Trial ended 22 December 2014”