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Cited Description: YOMIDAS REKISHIKAN, the new database service of The Yomiuri Shimbun, is Japan’s first online database service that allows a user to search or browse through more than 10 million articles carried by the newspaper since its inaugural issue in 1874. Images of news pages from the inaugural issue in 1874 up to 1989 have been recorded. 　All news articles can be found using headlines and key words. Old news articles can be found using words in common use today. About 4.8 million news articles of The Yomiuri Shimbun are available from 1986 onward. About 175,000 articles of The Daily Yomiuri are available from 1989 onward. The three databases mentioned above can be searched using “key words,” such as names of persons, places and events; “fields,” such as politics, economy and culture; and “date” of publication. Note that the search by key word is carried out through “YOMIDAS YOGO JISHO,” a glossary developed by The Yomiuri Shimbun, which enables a user to find a news article with ease. In the personality database there are about 26,000 contemporary persons in many fields who are linked to related news articles. Moreover, the new database is equipped with various functions, including “Imidas 2008 (c) Shueisha,” a glossary of the latest terminology of current affairs compiled by Shueisha Inc.

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Description: The “Kikuzo II visual for libraries” is the electronic version of Asahi Shimbun. The database covers the articles since the initial number in 1879 until today. The years 1879 until 1989 can be searched as PDF files. For the articles since 1985 a full-text search is provided. The database also includes an archive of historical photographs (approximately 10000 pictures) that were taken in various Asiatic countries between the so called Manchurian incident (1931/32) until the end of the World War II. Furthermore the biographical information of approximately 35.000 contemporary persons can be searched. The online version of the dictionary Chiezou is also included in this database. Also the pictoral magazine Asahi Gurafu (= The Asahi picture news) of the years 1923-1945 can be searched.

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Cited Description: Nikkei Telecom 21 is a group of comprehensive business database services offered by Nihon Keizai Shimbun. The service consists of: (1) News: Real-Time Nikkei newswire service (Japanese and English), (2) Full Text Article Search: Nikkei's 4 main newspapers and news (current, Japanese and English), (3) Market and Economic Indicators: Stock Indices, exchange rates, bond pricing and other economic indicators (Japanese), (4) Company Search: Company profiles and financial information (Japanese), (5) Who's Who Search: Personnel information in business (Japanese). Dates covered: Nikkei Japanese news from 1949 to date. Nikkei English news from 1983 to date. The database option "Nihon Keizai Shimbun - Meiji Era to Post World War II" ( 日本経済新聞（明治から戦後まで）) contains full newspaper images from our very first issue, printed in December 1876, until issues published in 1974.

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Description: The resource contains not only the full set of the English version of the Beijing Review (or Peking Review respectively 北京周报) from its first issue in 1958 on, but also the full sets of its printed German, French, Spanish and Japanese equivalents, i.e. the Beijing Rundschau (Peking Rundschau), the Beijing Information (Pekin Information), the 北京周報 (pekin shuho) and the Beijing Informa (Pekin Informa), which all started in 1963/1964 (with the exception of two Japanese issues in 1957) and stopped being published in paper in 2000. They are now continued in electronic form and only the English version still has a parallel paper version. None of the born-digital versions are currently included in the database. The Chinese version, the Beijing zhoubao, is also NOT included.
The full text of all years and issues of one language contained in the database are searchable at a time; the articles are downloadable as PDF; image captions can be searched separately.
It is moreover possible to easily switch between the different language editions of one specific issue and thus compare them.
Beijing Review is offered via the Sinoperi portal which also offers Qiushi 求实, China Pictorial (人民画报) and People's China (人民中国). Currently CrossAsia has only also subscribed Qiushi. Renmin huabao and Renmin zhongguo can be searched and hit lists showing bibliographical information and the respective text snippet are shown, but no download of fulltext view is possible.

Cited Description: Beijing Review is China's only national news magazine in English. It is published every week in Beijing, by the China International Publishing Group (CIPG), Launched in March 1958, Beijing Review reports and comments on the country's social, political, economic end cultural affairs, policy changes and latest developments. It also offers in-depth analysis on major regional and international events, and provides consulting and information services.
Over the past 50years, Beijing Review has strived to maintain objective and comprehensive reporting, and is regarded highly, both domestically and internationally, for its effort to serve the needs of its readers, with a circulation of over 70,000 per issue Beijing Review is distributed throughout China and in 150 countries and regions worldwide. Its readers include statesmen, business leaders, government officials, company executives, economists, researchers, scholars and white-collar workers, etc.
In addition to the English-language print edition, Beijing Review also publishes online editions in simplified Chinese, English, French, German and Japanese.

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Description: Please note that this database will be integrated into the JapanKnowledge website from 1 October 2014! Web版 日本近代文学館 provides a complete archive (PDF) of the journal Taiyô (太陽) which was published by Hakubunkan (博文官) from January Meiji 28 (1895) until February Shôwa 3 (1928) in 34 volumes with 531 issues. It was one of the leading general-interest magazines of the Meiji and Taishô period with articles on a large variety of topics such as politics, society, literature, science, geography, history, art, industry etc. Especially its literary column became of great influence for the promotion of the naturalist movement in Japan. In addition the following three indexes can be searched, however the PDFs of the articles/manuscripts are not available, as they are not included in the licence: The journal Bungei kurabu (文芸倶楽部) published by Hakubunkan (博文官) from January Meiji 28 (1895) until December Taishô 1 (1912) in 18 volumes with 284 issues. A literary journal that also comprises articles on art, fashion and customs. The student journal Daiichi kôtô gakkô kôyûkai zasshi (第一高等学校　校友会雑誌) that was published from November Meiji 23 (1890) until June Shôwa 19 (1944) at the Daiichi kôtô gakkô in Tôkyô which contains many articles on literature and art as well as early literary works of various writers. The archive Takita Choin kyûzô kindai sakka genkôshû (滝田樗陰旧蔵近代作家原稿集) which contains 230 literary works from the collection of Takita Choin, a former publisher of the journal Chûô kôron (中央公論). 209 of these works were later published in Chûô kôron. The biographies of the authors can be accessed.

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Description: Maisaku is the online version of the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shinbun. It consists of several functions:

Simple search: Combined search by keyword and date in the Mainichi Shinbun and the journal Shûkan Ekonomisuto.

Detailed search:
Mainichi Shinbun kiji kensaku: search for articles of the Mainichi Shinbun by keyword and date. For the years 1987-today a real full text search is provided. For the years 1872-1986 only the headings of important articles are indexed. Not all articles are included in the database (e.g. Sumô results, TV programme, cartoons etc. are excluded).

Mainichi Shinbun shimen kensaku: search images of the Mainichi Shinbun by date (1872-1999).

Denshi shukusatsuban: digital version of Mainichi Shinbun (1989-1999) for browsing with flash player.

Shûkan Ekonomisuto kiji kensaku: full text search of the journal Shûkan Ekonomisuto (1989 - heute) by keyword, author and date.

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Kyô no shinbun: publication of important articles of the respective daily edition (morning and evening edition) in real time

Nyûsu sokuhô: real time news announcements

Mainichi Shinbunsha no shiryô:
Mainichi yoronsâchi: database of opinion polls published in the Mainichi Shinbun (1945-today)

20seiki 2001daijiken: chronicle with pictures of important events of the 20th century, browing by subject or search by keyword or date are possible.

Mainichi Shinbunshashi: digital editon of the history of the publisher Mainichi Shinbunsha, search by keywords possible, also contains a list of the published serialised novels (1882-2001).

The Mainichi: full text search of the English edition The Mainichi (2008-today) by keyword or date

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Description: The database covers articles relating to the fields of politics, economy, society and others published in the Okinawa Times since 1997. It consists mainly of full-text text-only files (no scan of the original article including photographs, diagrams or other graphic elements). PDFs with clippings of the original article are only provided from July 2016 onward. Special issues have also been included.

For some articles on accidents or incidents only the headings have been included. The providing company refers to it as「事件・事故関連の一部など非公開の記事は見出しのみ収録」.

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Description: The database gives access to 1965 newspapers - on the day they are published, and 90 days retrospectively - from 87 countries in 42 languages. For the region East Asia and South East Asia these are 14 newspapers from China (11 in English, 3 in Chinese), 1 newspaper from Taiwan (The China Post), 7 newspapers from Hong Kong (6 in English, 1 in Chinese), 6 newspapers from Japan (4 in English, 2 in Japanese), 11 newspapers from South Korea (6 in English, 5 in Korean), 5 newspapers from Vietnam (3 in English, 1 in French, 1 in Vietnamese), 2 newspapers (only) in English from Cambodia, 14 from Thailand (11 in English, 2 in Tai, 1 in German), and 20 newspapers from Malaysia (10 in English, 6 in Malay, 4 in Chinese). The database may be searched by country, by language, or alphabetically by the newspapers title in the time ranges today, last 3 days, this week, this month, or anytime (which means the last 90 days).

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Description: Please note that this database will be integrated into the JapanKnowledge website from 1 October 2014! Fûzoku Gahô was the first illustrated journal in Japan published from 1889 until 1916. The database contains all 518 numbers of this journal as PDF. The articles can be searched by author, title of the article or number of the volume. There is no full-text search. The journal covers a wide range of subjects from the Edo, Meiji and Taishô period such as literature, customs, history, war, disasters, geography (local guide books) etc.

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Description: PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE USING THE DATABASE: Please note that access to Fujin kôron through CrossAsia is a terminal connection (RDP, Remote Desktop Protocol). Please use the Internet Explorer or Safari as RDP requires Java. Due to technical problems the keyword search (フリーワード検索) does not work. An attempt to search with keywords leads to a failure and terminates the connection. Only browsing of the individual issues via the list of contents (巻・号・目次一覧) is possible. We apologize for the inconvenience. Fujin kôron is a monthly women's magazine published by the publishing company Chûô Kôronsha (中央公論社) that dealt from the first issue onward with women's rights and women's issues in a progressive way. However many other topics such as society, literature, culture are also dealt with. This DVD version compiled by Rinsen Shoten (臨川書店) contains the following contents: 第1回配本 大正5年1月～昭和7年12月／1号（1巻1号）～208号（17巻12号） 第2回配本 昭和8年1月～昭和19年3月 ／ 209号（18巻1号）～346号（29巻3号） Part 1 January 1916 - December 1932 / No. 1 (Vol. 1 No. 1) - No. 208 (Vol. 17 No. 12) Part 2 January 1933 - March 1944 / No. 209 (Vol. 18 No. 1) - No. 346 (Vol. 29 No. 3) All 346 issues from the first number until the last number published before the war (about 136.000 pages) including all title pages and frontispiece (kuchi'e, about 540) in colour.

Cited Description: 女性の解放と自我の確立を求める時代の声を捉え、『中央公論』は大正2年（1913）「閨秀十五名家一人一題」「婦人問題」特集を企画し、大いに衆目を集めた。これが、2006年に創刊90周年を迎えた長寿雑誌『婦人公論』誕生（大正5年）の端緒である。自由主義の旗印のもと女権の拡張を目ざし、通巻して恋愛・結婚・職業・家庭・教育等の婦人をとりまく諸問題を取り上げ、政治・経済・国際情勢等の時事問題にも女性解放の観点から取り組んで主に知識層婦人の支持を受けた本誌は、実用記事が多かった同時代の数多の婦人雑誌の中でひときわ異彩を放っている。近代女性史のみならず広く社会学・文学・文化史・風俗史等における基礎資料である本誌の創刊号から戦前終刊号までを画像データでデジタル化、検索用データベースを付しDVD-ROM版に収録する。

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Description: PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE USING THE DATABASE: Please note that access to Fujin gahô through CrossAsia is a terminal connection (RDP, Remote Desktop Protocol). Please use Internet Explorer or Safari as RDP requires Java. Due to technical problems the keyword search (フリーワード検索) does not work. An attempt to search with keywords leads to a failure and terminates the connection. Only browsing of the individual issues via the list of contents (巻・号・目次一覧) is possible. We apologize for the inconvenience. The contents of Fujin gahô are divided in two sets (DVDs 1-4 and 5-8). However the full list of all issues is displayed in the menu. You can switch between the two sets via an extra window provided by the RDP framework. The database tells you, if it is necessary to switch the DVD set. For details about the contents of the two DVD sets, please see below. As the title indicates Fujin gahô is an illustrated monthly women's magazine covering many topics such as fashion, culture, literature, but also women's rights. The DVD version compiled by Rinsen Shoten (臨川書店) contains all 500 issues from the first number until the last number published before the war. Contents in detail: DVDs 1, 2, 3, 4 明治・大正期 （創刊号～255号） 婦人畫報（近事畫報社）：１巻１号（明治38年7月発行）～３年６号（明治40年6月発行） 東洋婦人畫報（東京社）：１号（明治40年8月発行）～24号（明治42年3月発行） 婦人畫報（東京社）：25号（明治42年4月）～255号（大正15年12月発行） Meiji/Taishô period (No. 1 - No. 255) Fujin gahô (Kinji Gahôsha): Vol. 1 No. 1 (published July 1905) - Year 3 No. 6 (published June 1907) Tôyô fujin gahô (Tôkyôsha): No. 1 (published August 1907) - No. 24 (published March 1909) Fujin gahô (Tôkyôsha): No. 25 (published April 1909) - No. 255 (published December 1926) DVDs 5, 6, 7, 8 昭和期 （256号～482号（戦前終刊号）） 婦人畫報（東京社）：256号（大正16（昭和２）年1月）～482号（昭和19年4月1日発行） Shôwa period (No. 256 - No. 482) Fujin gahô (Tôkyôsha): No. 256 (January 1927) - No. 482 (1st April 1944)

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