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Database of tables of contents, headlines, advertisements and so on from 13,787 magazines and newspapers owned by Gordon W. Prange Collection (Maryland University in the U.S.).

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Artemis Primary Sources searches multiple source of historical material databases.
Contracted databases:

• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
• Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)
• The Times Digital Archive (1785-1985)

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The Dong-a Ilbo , Korea Joongang Daily and The Chosun Ilbo are the top three big newspapers in Korea. This database seraches from the first issue till the latest issue of The Chosun Ilbo. The articles after 1990 can be searched in full text.

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The newspaper article database of “Chunichi Shimbun” and “Tokyo Shimbun”.
■Chunichi Shimbun
“Chunichi Shimbun” contains almost all the articles of more than 20 local editions (Aichi prefecture, Gifu prefecture and Mie prefecture).
April 1987-: the last edition (the local edition)
April 1989-: Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Shiga, Fukui, Nagano
January 1995-: All the area versions of Mie
April 1995-: All the area versions of Gifu
January 1996-: All the area versions of Aichi
■Tokyo Shimbun
“Tokyo Shimbun” is a local edition of the metropolitan area.
April 1997-: the last edition (Tokyo)
April 2009-: All the area versions of Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Ibaraki, Gumma, Tochigi, the eastern part of Shizuoka

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A Korean daily newspaper, THE DONG-A ILBO launched on April 1, 1920. CHOSUN ILBO, KOREA JOONGANG DAILY, and THE DONG-A ILBO are the top three big newspapers in Korea. The articles after 1990 can be searched by full-text. This database is also available by automatically logging in from database “KISS”.

“Shashin Tokuhou” was a sheet of news handout (main content was photos) distributed daily by “Doumei Tsushinsha”, a nation policy news agency. It was printed 100,000 sheets a day, mainly distributed to schools, factories, mines, forestries, stores and put up as a wall newspaper.

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The online version of “The Economist”, a business journal. “The Economist” provides detailed precise analyses and clear reports on world economics, politics, business, finance, science, technology and so on.

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Database of Japanese listed companies’ financial statements, financial data and earnings briefings. Rikkyo University doesn’t have contract for earnings briefings flash and financial analysis information. For access to listed companies’ information in Asia, please use “eol Asia One” on the upper right of the screen after log in.

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Factiva.com provides a wide range of business information such as major newspapers, news, company information, market information worldwide including Japan. It also contains company financial information, market data (from present to past), and analyst report provided by Investext, etc.

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Financial Times Historical Archive provides “Financial Times” from the first issue (1888) until 2010 with original page images. This database enables you to search by full text, refine their search by the article column, the issue date, etc. and view every issue.

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This portal site provides information of Japanese culture researches. For example, the database of rare books and materials about ghost (Yo-kai) picture scrolls, old maps, tanka/haiku and the research support database. Some databases require application for use.

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Database of 河北新報(Kahoku Shimpo) articles after August 1991. It covers Tohoku area information and international & domestic news.

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KIKUZOU II Visual contains The Asahi Shimbun (after 1985）, reduced-size editions (Meiji-Showa:1879-1989), AERA(The first issue-) and Shukan Asahi ( after APRIL 2004). It also contains”Chiezo”, “Jinbutsu database” and “Asahi Shimbun Rekishi Shashin Archive”.

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KPM is the Korean speech information database, which send Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s major speeches and academic information to the world in real time. Besides “Roudou Shimbun”, “Minshu Chousen”, “Bungaku Shimbun”, “Touitsu Shimpou”, “Pyongyang Times”, “Chousen Shimpou Pyongyang Shikyoku News (KPM Original)”, it contains 15 academic journals and literary magazines such as “Senriuma”, “Chousen Bungaku”, “Chousen Geijutsu”, “Jidou Bungaku”, “Seinen Bungaku”, etc. Users can only browse the contents. Quotations and reproduction are prohibited.

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LexisNexis Academic contains a large variety of information such as general newspaper or magazine articles, business information, law information, medicine information, etc.

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The following materials can be searched.
– Mainichi Shimbun article search (headline search: 1872-, headline and body search: 1987-）
– Paper search (1872-1999）
– Online reduced editions (1989-1999）
– Shukan Economist, a Japanese economic weekly magazine (1988-）
– Mainichi Daily News

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Nikkei Telecom 21 enables you to cross search 4 Nikkei newspapers (The Nikkei, Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, Nikkei Ryutsu Shimbun, Nikkei Kinyu Shimbun), company information and personnel information. This is the representative business database of Japan.

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NCCO searches a wide range of first historical materials in the 19th century. It contains various materials such as books, monographs, newspapers, magazines, diaries, letters, manuscripts, photos, pamphlets, maps, statistics (mainly in English, but including non-European languages). Rikkyo University has contract for Archive 1-8.

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Press Reader contains more than 2000 newspapers issued in 100 countries. It contains not only the pages of newspapers themselves but also advertisements. The past articles at most 90 days before can be viewed (It depends on titles).

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It is the digitized collection of American foreign policy materials at the time of Vietnam War. Mainly owned documents related to government and military affairs. (White house documents owned by NARA (National Archives and Records Administration), NSC (National Security Council) documents, Federal Records Centers, Kennedy presidential library, Johnson presidential library…) What did American foreign policy, world strategy, international relationships and Vietnam War bring to America? Users can use this as basic materials for thinking the whole diplomacy situations of America and the world.

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■Tokyo headquarter morning paper, the evening final edition : from September 7, 1992 – *Tokyo headquarter the evening edition was ceased on March 30, 2002.
■Osaka headquarter morning paper, the evening final edition : from December 15, 1998 –

Database searching information for analyses of companies and industries and provided by UZABASE, Inc. It contains data of all Japanese listed/unlisted companies and overseas major listed companies. The trends of industries and numerical information can be downloaded as MS Word, Excel or PDF files.

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“Taiwan nichinichi shimpo” is a representative Japanese newspaper of Taiwan in Japan. This database contains from 1898 (launched) until 1944 (ceased).

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The archive of “London Times” (from the first issue until 1985),  a pioneer of international communications network. The advertisements, charts and photos can also be viewed.

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■The Heisei era(平成) : From September 1986 until the latest issue. The articles from December 2008 have the clipping images (not all).
■The Meiji, the Taisho and the Showa era(明治・大正・昭和) : From 1874 (the first issue) until 1989
■The Japan News (The Daily Yomiuri until March 2013) : From 1989.  The articles from August 2011 have links between English articles and Japanese articles.
■Who’s Who today : Personal data of about 26,000 key persons in Japan and overseas (including the deceased).