World Digital Library is a database launched by the United States Library of Congress in 2009 and it’s supported by various global institutions including UNESCO. The archive provides many different cultural documents around the world with almost 20 000 items from 193 different countries in its collections. The documents in the archive include books, manuscripts, maps and photographs. Learn more
Newspaper Clippings Collection is an online newspaper archive provided by the Kobe University Digital Archive. The database includes over 300 000 clips from various newspapers in Japan from 1836 to 1944 originally collected by the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration. The database includes original picture of each article and its text in digitized form. Learn more
NDL Digital Collections is provided by the National Diet Library of Japan and includes many different types of documents including books, maps, scripts and audio-visual materials unedited in digitized form. These sources can be used in cultural, political and war history researches of Japan. Some of the materials in the collection require special permission from the NDL or its partner libraries but most documents are available publicly on the internet. Learn more
Japan Center for Asian Historical Records is an online archive provided by National Archives of Japan and includes various sources from East Asian modern history. This database is useful for studies of the history of East Asian relationships and it has documents regarding the Pacific War, Sino-Japanese War for instance. The archive is available in English, excluding a few pages, and has all its documents’ titles also in English for the search tool. Learn more