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●New catalog data are now available through the Digital Archive.

• Search and View our Holdings
  
  
It's now available with records donated or deposited to the National Archives of Japan, 2,221 volumes, through the Digital Archive, on October 26, 2011.

●New catalog data are now available through the Digital Archive.

• Search and View our Holdings
  
  
Registering more Catalog Data

It's now accessible to newly registered records, 4,422 volumes and 983 volumes,
transferred in 2010.

●New records are now available through the Digital Archive.

• Search and View our Holdings
  
  
Registering more Digitized Images

Official Documents



Records of Deliberations on Bills and Proposed Ordinances (transfered in 2007)	136,943 Images
Naikaku Kobun: Cabinet Official Documents	124,142 Images
Records of the Cabinet Meetings, Meetings of the Administrative Vice-Ministers and Other Meetings of Officials, 1951	19,409 Images
Kobun Zassan: Miscellaneous Official Document Compilations, 1886-1904	149,041 Images
Various Miscellaneous Archives	141,782 Images
Ninmen Saika Sho: Records on Ratification of Appointment and Dismissal of Government Officials, 1893-1916	242,279 Images
Records Categorized in the Minister's Secretariat General Affairs Division Records Section (transfered in 1989)	80,314 Images
Kobun Roku: Records of Government, 1868-1871	82,748 Images
Others ・Shokumu Shintai　・Shokan Shintai　・Kanri Shintai ・Ministry of the Interior Records (related to local administration) ・Records of Personnel Bureau of National Safety Agency and Defense 　Agency (Original approved documents of law) ・Records of Highway Public Corporation World Bank Loans ・Economic Stabilization Board　・Kobun Ruishu, 1928	205,728 Images
Cabinet Library
Tamon Yagura Monjo, etc.	219,914 Images
Others ・Shiryaku　・Baitei Sensei Shiroku Hyojun　・Kankensyo ・Shoshu Matsuji cho　・Shobutsu Ruisan Zuyoku ・Azuma Kagami　・Tempo Sato Cho, etc.	20,080 Images
Total	1,422,380 Images


It can be searched by "Layered Search," through the Digital Archive, as indicated by the following example.
Administrative Records >> Cabinet Legislation Bureau >> Records of Deliberations on Bills and Proposed Ordinances
Administrative Records >> Cabinet/Prime Minister's Office >> Records concerning Dajokan/Cabinet >> Naikaku Kobun: Cabinet Official Documents
Administrative Records >> Cabinet Secretariat >> Records of the Cabinet Affairs Office >> Records of the Cabinet Meetings, Meetings of the Administrative Vice-Ministers and Other Meetings of Officials
Administrative Records >> Cabinet/Prime Minister's Office >> Records concerning Dajokan/Cabinet >> Category No.1 Kobun Zassan: Miscellaneous Official Document Compilations
Administrative Records >> Cabinet/Prime Minister's Office >> Records concerning Dajokan/Cabinet >> Various Miscellaneous Archives >> Various Miscellaneous Archives
Administrative Records >> Cabinet/Prime Minister's Office >> Records concerning Dajokan/Cabinet >> Category No.5 Ninmen Saika Sho: Records on Ratification of Appointment and Dismissal of Government Officials
Administrative Records >> Ministry of Education >> Records Categorized in the Minister's Secretariat General Affairs Division Records Section >> 1970 Category Records

Registering more Catalog Data

It's now accessible to newly registered records, 31,197 volumes, transfered in 2010.


• Important Cultural Properties


It's newly available 303 items (357 images) registered, including "Okari Seiten" is illustrations of large-scale hunting games conducted by successive shoguns in the Edo Period, "Pictures of sample medals awarded at the 2nd National Industrial Fair" is included "Kobun Fuzoku no Zu (Pictures and Charts affiliated with Kobun Roku)", "Records of World Bank Loans" is documents relating to construction of Tomei Expressway (Tokyo to Nagoya) during the 30s of the Showa Period, etc.

●Starting up of Renewed "Digital Archive" on March 1st, 2010

• National Archives of Japan (NAJ) has provided "Digital Archive," that enable you to access to the descriptions and digitized images of the historical records preserved by NAJ at anytime and anywhere, anyone, free on the Internet, since April 2005.
  It is started up of renewed "Digital Archive" on March 1st, 2010.
  
  

  Starting up	:March 1st, 2010, 9:00 a.m. (on trial)
  URL Address	:http://www.digital.archives.go.jp/index_e.html