[KS] Jap. newspaper archives

[Frank Hoffmann]

Thanks for your replies. The bottom line seems to be that there are 
only commercial digitized databases of *major* Japanese newspapers for 
the period before 1950. There seem to be none with free access (or fees 
"per downloaded article"). And those commercial DBs do have quite hefty 
fees ($4,000 and up per year), are obviously set up for libraries and 
other institutional subscribers -- which comes as no surprise.


The link to the _Asahi Shimbun_ that was mentioned here is the one to 
the "Kikuzo II Visual" database I also had in my question. Several 
universities, of course, have subscriptions (and different login 
gateways). 

Asahi Shimbun -->

http://database.asahi.com/library2/main/help/reducedsize_naiyou01.html
http://database.asahi.com/library2e/main/help/reducedsize_naiyou01_e.html 
(Engl.)
"Kikuzo II Visual" database:
http://database.asahi.com/library2/main/help/about.html
http://database.asahi.com/library2e/main/help/about_e.html  (Engl.)


There there are the archives of the _Yomiuri Shimbun_ that Dr. Alison 
Tokita kindly made me aware of (also pointing out that those are 
commercial). The fees here are just as high as those for the _Asahi 
Shimbun_.

Yomiuri Shimbun -->

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/database/
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/database/rekishikan/
Fees:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/database/rekishikan/ryokin/


I know that the _Mainichi Shimbun_ has a PHOTO DB that one can search 
freely (link below), but that is pretty much all there is.
https://photobank.mainichi.co.jp/php/KK_search.php


Best,
Frank




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Frank Hoffmann
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