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Yomidas (Yomiuri Shinbun Co.)
Some articles on this website are available only in Japanese. If necessary, please use the browser’s translation function.

This database enables you to search articles in the paper by "Yomiuri Shinbun" since 1874.

The archive has several sections.
Articles from 1874 to 1989 are contained as high-quality scans of the pages, as they originally appeared. Articles after 1986 onward are contained in a convenient text view, as well as a clipping view of the original article. The Japan News catalogs articles that appeared in our English publication. Contemporary Who’s Who offers the ability to search for individuals to retrieve their biographical data as well as pertinent articles. And finally, regional articles and pages from the period of 1933 to 2001 can be found as page images in the optional Regional Sections (Showa Era) feature.

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General Fields
Newspaper articles
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Westlaw classic (former Westlaw Next)(Thomson Reuters)
Legal information database mainly in the United States and overseas. You can also search and read the full text of overseas newspaper articles, TV news, and magazine articles.Major 

Major newspapers: Daily Telegraph (2001-), Guardian (1985-), Independent (2000-), International New York Times (1997-), Los Angeles Times (1985-), USA TODAY (1989-), Washington Post (1978-), and many others.
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Note (2024.2.29)
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*Not available from on-campus without HIRODAI ID after April 1, 2024.  

General Fields
Law
Journal articles
Laws & Court Decisions
Newspaper articles
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Over 60,000 biographies, 72 million words, 11,000 portraits of significant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British history
General Fields
History
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
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nihuBridge (National Institutes for the Humanities)
nihuBridge is a portal site for sharing and utilizing various research resources published by the National Institutes for the Humanities and collaborative organizations.

General Fields
Arts
Geography
History
Languages
Literature
Music
Sociology
Books
Images
Journal articles
Open access
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