Fonds/Series
Public Records Restituted from the United States
- Title
- Public Records Restituted from the United States
- Date
- 1868-1956
- Level of Description
- series
- Extent
- ２，７４７件||2,747 items
- Creator
- (Army and Navy Forces-related and Ministry of the Interior-related organizations)
- Archival History
- During the US occupation, those documents were seized and kept in the Library of Congress (United States).
- Source of Transfer or Acquisition
- Restituted from the United States in December, 1973 and placed in the Archives on January 14, 1974
- Scope and Content
- Records of the former Army and Navy (so-called Returned Red: 返赤) and the former Ministry of the Interior (so-called Returned Blue: 返青), etc., which were restituted from the United States
- Conditions Governing Reproduction
- Image browsing is possible on the Internet(Some materials)
- Language
- Japanese
- Finding Aids
- Booklet catalogue, "Restituted Public Records Catalogue (opened to the public)," "Restituted Records Catalogue (Ordered by requested number, includes those newly opened to the public), and (script catalogue) "Restituted Records Catalogue (18 volumes)," are available.
- Publication Note
- "Restitution of seized official records" Kitanomaru vol. 2|br|"On 'registries of seized, restituted, and unrestituted official records' (related to the Cabinet)" Kitanomaru vol. 34
https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/fonds/en/2999242
[Fonds/Series] "Public Records Restituted from the United States", National Archives of Japan Digital Archive, https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/fonds/en/2999242（accessed 2026-04-11）
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