Japanese Studies

Institute of Socio-Information and Communications Studies' Newspaper and Multimedia Library   http://www.isics.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
University of Tokyo- 東京大学社会情報研究所付属情報メデｲア研究センター
Comprehensive collections of newspaper resources from the Shōwa and Heisei eras.

Institute of Social Science, Univerysity of Tokyo - Asahi Clippings Library   http://www.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
No longer accessible online; scholars must visit the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. It holds 87,000 articles from the Asahi Shinbun newspaper. Coverage is from 1922 to 1997. Articles were selected with particular reference to government, politics, and political parties. Articles filed under individual people go back to before the Second World War; articles filed under events start after the war. Online index available at the shaken.

Japan Newspaper Museum- 日本新聞博物館   http://www.pressnet.or.jp/library/index.html
Free and open to the public; attempts to provide complete runs of major Japanese newspapers in a variety of formats.

Meiji Newspaper and Magazine Library   http://www.j.u-tokyo.ac.jp/lib/meiji/
University of Tokyo, Center for the Documentation of Modern Japan's Law and Politics
東京大学法学部付属近代日本法政史料センター明治新聞雑誌文庫

Newspapers from Japan Held by CRL   http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=23&l3=44&l4=27
CRL holds 43 titles from five cities. This site provides complete bibliographic information and holdings records. Newspapers can be loaned for up to one year. The CRL database can be searched by country, region, language, dates and title amongst other things.