A-Z Databases

Ichikawa Fusae Shiryō オンライン版市川房枝資料 = Fusae Ichikawa Papers Online, 1905-1946 from the Ichikawa Fusae Center for Women and Governance (consisting of over 3,700 items of primary source materials including diaries, notebooks, correspondence, and unpublished documents, originally belonged to Ichikawa Fusae (1893-1981), a leader of the Japanese women’s suffrage movement before the war and an extremely influential politician who served for 25 years postwar as a member of the Japan’s House of Councillors

Hōmushō Kyuzō Tōkyō Saibun, Sensō Saiban Kankei Shiryō オンライン版法務省旧蔵東京裁判・戦争裁判関係資料 = Records of War Crime Tribunals: Mainly Related to Tokyo Trials, from the Former Archives of the Ministry of Justice (consisting of over 360 volumes of compilations of materials on the Tokyo Trial originally assembled by the Ministry of Justice, records of interviews with over 100 witnesses from the former imperial navy and army, and the foreign ministry, etc., currently held by the National Archives of Japan.)

Kusuda Minoru Shiryō オンライン版楠田實資料 = Kusuda Collection, Part II (consisting of 3,500 items of diaries, meeting notes, correspondence, unpublished government policy documents, etc., covering from the late 1970s through early 1990s related to Kishi Shinsuke (1896-1987), Ikeda Hayato (1899-1965), Satō Eisaku (1901-1975), Fukuda Takeo (1905-1955), Abe Shinzō (1954-2022), and Takeshita Noboru (1924-2000) administrations, originally belonged to Kusuda Minoru (1924-2003) who served as chief secretary to Prime Minister Sato and continued to support his administration)

Bōei Seisakushi Shiryōオンライン版 防衛政策史資料 = Records of Japan's Defense Policy History (This database includes the Defense Agency Historical Materials, a group of materials collected for the compilation of the Defense Agency's history, and two personal documents “Kubo Papers” (Takuya Kubo, former Defense Vice Minister) and “Ito Papers” (Keiichi Ito, former Director General of the Defense Agency and Secretary General of the National Defense Council). It also includes minutes of meetings within the Defense Agency in the 1980s.)

Shigaki Minrō Kyūzō Naichō Shiryō 志垣民郎旧蔵オンライン版内調資料 = Records of Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office (CIRO): Minro Shigaki Papers Online (consisting of a variety of materials, including reports on nuclear policy research conducted by the Internal Affairs Bureau, materials from research groups such as the Policy Science Research (PSR), and records of CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) training)

Sengo Shakai Hoshō Seido Kankei Shiryō オンライン版 戦後社会保障制度関係資料 = Records of Japan’s Postwar Social Security System (containing more than 4,000 original documents related to the social security system spanning half a century, from the 1940s to the 1990s.