21 Dec 2001

Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR)
JACAR, Tokyo, Japan
Self-description: "The JACAR is established for the purpose of providing through the Internet the index and the digital image information of historical records about modern Japan-Asia relations held and made available to the public by Japanese national institutions. As the mentioned records are so numerous, we are starting to provide from the records held by the National Archives of Japan [incl. 'Dajo Ruiten', 'Kubun Roku', 'Kobun Ruishu' and 'Kobun Zassan' series - ed.], The Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs [incl. about 600,000 microfilm frames of category 'A' documents (political and diplomatic affairs) of pre- and in wartime period of Showa era - ed.] , and The National Institute for Defense Studies of the National Defense Agency [incl. Japanese Imperial Army's Records: 'Rikugunsyo Dainikki'(1868 to 1942), 'Jinchunisshi' ,'Sentoshoho' etc: (records of battles from the foundation of the Japanese Imperial Army to the end of World War II), Japanese Imperial Navy's Records: 'Kaigunsho kobun biko' (military education, warships, and weapons 1876 to 1937), 'Senzinisshi', 'Sentoshoho', etc: (records of battles from the foundation of the Japanese Imperial Army and Navy to the end of World War II) - ed.], where great held and transformed into digital images. The original records provided by the JACAR are available in the above mentioned institutions."
Site contents: Introduction; The JACAR Collection; User's Guide; Terms and Conditions for Using Our Web Site; Search room (Reading Room); Visitor's Guide; FAQ; Suggestion Box.
[A site in JP, with a skeleton EN interface, housing currently about 2 million pages of original, official archival material available for viewing online (as well as printing, saving etc). This number will be increased over the next several years to approximately 30 million pages of historical records - Steve Bullard, Australian War Memorial, stevebullard@netspeed.com.au, 22 Dec 2001.]
URL http://www.jacar.go.jp
Internet Archive [not archived at the time of this note]
Link reported by: Earl Kinmonth (e_kinmonth@mail.tais.ac.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30