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Newspapers - English Languages

Japan Times Archives (Library subscription)
Publication Date: 1897- 2017

The Mainichi

Center for Research Libraries has an English edition of The Mainichi (1951-1960) and The Mainichi Daily News (1960-1962) on microfilm.

The Mainichi website in English has a search function, which seems to go back one year.

Japan News (Yomiuri Shimbun)

Selected articles from 1989-present are available in Nexis Uni.

The Japan News website only goes back 30 days.

AJW: Asia and Japan Watch (Asahi Shinbun)

Their AJW website has news in English going back approximately 1 year. Non-subscribers are limited to 10 articles/month.

FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) This link opens in a new window
Publication Dates: 1941-1996
Contains full text of English translations of foreign broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals and government statements, covering policy and politics important to US interests.
World News Connection This link opens in a new window
Publication Dates: 1994-2013
Continues FBIS database. Contains full text of English translations of foreign broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals and government statements, covering policy and politics important to U.S. interests.

The Center for Research Libraries also has newspapers in Japanese on microfilm.

The longest run is for Asahi Shinbun:

For other newspapers from Japan, see CRL's list by country and city.

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
A giant collection of high-resolution images. Focuses on art and architecture, but is also good for archaeology, anthropology, and history.

AM Explorer This link opens in a new window
Primary sources focused on history, medieval studies, politics, British imperialism, African-American culture, gender and more, collected from library archives worldwide.
Center for Research Libraries Catalog This link opens in a new window
Contains holdings of difficult to obtain journals, newspapers, dissertations, and a variety of primary sources. Materials can be requested through interlibrary loan.
HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Access public domain books and journals from U.S. research libraries digitized by Google, Internet Archive, and other digitization partnerships.