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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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Description: The content 日本経済新聞（明治から戦後まで） comprises the editions of Nikkei Keizai Shimbun and its predecessors from 1876 until 1974.

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 (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.

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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 of full-text text-only files (approximately 800.000). Unfortunately there are no PDF versions of the original articles, photographs or any other graphic elements. 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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