Japanese Studies Primary Sources: Newspapers

Online sites for The Asahi Shinbun - 朝日新聞

The FPC was established in October 1976 as an independent, private and non-profit foundation with funds provided by the Japan Newspaper and Editors Association and the Keidanren (Japan Federation of Economic Organizations). It supports members of the foreign press in their work in Japan by helping them to overcome such barriers as differences in customs and language and to get "accurate information, gathered quickly and without waste."

Succeeded Japan Times (1897-1918), Japan Times and Mail (1918-1940), Japan Advertiser (1939-1941), Japan Times and Advertiser (Oct 5-Dec 31, 1942), Nippon Times (1943-1956)
Newpapers and Microforms: S134S
Search Archive, 1999-
Almost all the domestic stories from the printed paper are online with their full-length text, as long as they come from JT writers and correspondents or from the Kyodo wire service. See instructions for searching for editorials.

Web access to the Nihon Keizai Shinbun and the former Japan Economic Journal
Nihon Keizai Shinbun: Ford Business Library -- recent three months; EAC: N691KE (Feb 1992-present)
Japan Economic Journal: Microforms--S6530; Library has 1985-1991

The Sankei Shinbun website - 産経新聞

Yomiuri Shinbun - 読売新聞

週刊『前進』 published by the Japan Revolutionary Communist League. Includes the full text of the weekly newspaper from 1939 to the present. Most recent year is searchable; full text is browsable back to 1939.

From Meiji to WW2-- this is very specialized, but if you are researching the history of technology/commerce it could be invaluable.

全国新聞総合目録データベース Searchable database for finding out Japanese library holdings for regional and national newspapers; includes information on range of holdings and library contact information.

戦前日本在住朝鮮人関係新聞記事検索 Citations but no articles. This database has almost 30,000 items. It is maintained by Mizuno Naoki at Kyoto Daigaku.

University of Tokyo- 東京大学社会情報研究所付属情報メデｲア研究センター
Comprehensive collections of newspaper resources from the Shōwa and Heisei eras.

No longer accessible online; scholars must visit the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. It holds 87,000 articles from the Asahi Shinbun newspaper. Coverage is from 1922 to 1997. Articles were selected with particular reference to government, politics, and political parties. Articles filed under individual people go back to before the Second World War; articles filed under events start after the war. Online index available at the shaken.

Free and open to the public; holds complete runs of major Japanese newspapers in a variety of formats.

University of Tokyo, Center for the Documentation of Modern Japan's Law and Politics
東京大学法学部付属近代日本法政史料センター明治新聞雑誌文庫