Online database browsing service

Yokohama City Library provides a database browsing service that can be used via the Internet.
※"Japan Knowledge Lib" will not be available all day on Saturday, November 30, 2024 due to temporary suspension of service due to emergency maintenance.

• How to use
• List of online databases provided
• Introduction of each database
• Examples of utilization

Please come to each library counter (3rd floor counter in Chuo-toshokan)

Anyone can use it.

30 minutes per time
Please ask each library for more than 30 minutes.

Please fill out the “Application Form for Copying Documents in Yokohama City Library” and submit it to each library counter (3rd floor counter in Chuo-toshokan).
All black and white sizes 10 yen per sheet, color B4 size 50 yen per sheet, A3 size 80 yen per sheet

• You can print one copy per person. It is not possible to print multiple copies of the same one. Other printing conditions are stipulated by the Copyright Act and the rules of each database company.
• Storage media such as USB memory cannot be brought in or used.
• It may not be available temporarily due to maintenance, etc.
• For more information about the Yamauchi Library's database serviceYamauchi Library homepage (outside site)Please take a look at it.

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You can search for "Asahi Shimbun" (from Meiji 12 (1879), "AERA", "Weekly Asahi" (news side), "Asahi Graph", and "Asahi Modern Glossary Wisdom Kura". You can also search for personal databases, English news, and historical photo archives.

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You can search for "Yomiuri Shimbun" (from Meiji 7 (1874), English-language newspaper "The Japan News", modern human name book, etc. The Yomiuri Shimbun also contains a regional version of Showa (except Okinawa Prefecture since 1933).

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You can search for "Mainichi Shimbun" (from Meiji 5 (1872), "Weekly Economist", and Mainichi Yoron Research (public opinion poll results). It also contains articles archives "The Mainichi" and "Mainichi Shimbun Company History" on the English news site.

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You can search for "Sankei Shimbun" (from 1992). You can also browse the Sankei News, a paid article site of Sankei Shimbun, "Sankei News".

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You can browse the space of "Kanagawa Shimbun-sha" (newspaper name changed from Meiji 23 (1890)). In addition, it can be viewed in color after May 2004.

※Keyword search is not possible.

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You can search for articles of Nikkei Shitsu "Nihon Keizai Shimbun", "Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun", "Nikkei MJ (Routs Newspaper)" and "Nikkei Financial Newspaper". You can also use company information, personnel information, economic statistics, etc. based on Nikkei Inc. survey.

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"Tokyo Shimbun Morning and Evening" can be searched from April 1997. In addition to this paper, all regional versions (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Ibaraki, Gunma, Tochigi, Shizuoka) are included.

"Chunichi Shimbunsha Morning and Evening" can be searched from April 1987. In addition to this paper, it contains the prefectures of Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Nagano, Shiga, Fukui, and Shizuoka in Chubu District, and all regional versions of Mie, Gifu, Aichi and Shizuoka prefectures.

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This is the largest database of newspaper and magazine clipping and article search services in Japan. Approximately 100 newspapers are collected, including the Mainichi Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, Tokyo Shimbun, Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, local leading newspapers (with time difference), industry newspapers, sports and evening newspapers. You can also search about 250 magazines.

※Only article headlines can be viewed.

※Magazines are searchable until the end of August 2021.

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You can search for magazine articles published by Nikkei BP on business, management, IT, medical care, architecture, etc.

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You can search for major publications of Toyo Keizai Inc., such as "Weekly Orient Economics", "Company Shiki Report", and "Job Four Seasons Report".

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This is the index search database of Soichi Oya Bunko. It contains the magazine article index from the Meiji era to the present, and you can search for the headlines of the article.

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You can search for more than 70 types of dictionaries, such as "Japanese Language Dictionary", "World Encyclopedia", "National History Dictionary", and "Japanese History Name Daisei".

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This is a database of literature and thesis that allows you to search for academic and dissertation information in Japan and overseas. It contains information on literature and papers related to science and technology, medicine and pharmacy.

※JDream III copying service (a service to order copying (copying) of academic literature) is not available.

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This is an internet version of "Central Medicine Journal". You can search for dissertation information in domestic medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and related fields, and browse bibliographic information and abstracts.

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You can search for precedents, laws and regulations, legal literature information, etc.

※The content available at Yokohama City Library is "Basic Content".

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On May 3, 1947, from the date of enforcement of the Constitution of Japan, you can search for the official gazette (main newspaper, extra, government procurement public notice version, document version, catalog) issued on the day (after 8:30 am on the day) . There are date search and article search, and text and image display can be done.

※Chuo-toshokan has been holding the official gazette since July 1883. There's a missing number.

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This is a database that allows you to search for financial and non-financial information such as securities reports for domestic companies and check corporate information and industry information.

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You can use a commercial area report that evaluates regional characteristics such as resident characteristics, purchasing power consumption, and future population. In addition, information can be obtained at each municipality / town unit in Kanagawa, Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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You can search for marketing information such as market survey data of about 2,000 items, manufacturer share, household survey, consumer questionnaire, etc.

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You can search and browse information on agriculture, such as magazines, books, encyclopedias, videos, etc. issued by the Agricultural Bunkyo (Agricultural and Mountain Fishing Village Association).

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Here are some examples that were actually used in the survey.
※Click the example below to display the relevant case in the National Diet Library Reference Cooperative Database.

• I want to know about the drought in America. (External site)

We use Asahi Shimbun Cross Search, Yomidas, and Nikkei Telecon 21.

※The name of the online database in the response is posted as it was at that time.

• I am looking for materials for research and research on my father's postpartum depression. (External site)

We use Web OYA-bunko and medical journals.

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