- Time-span
- 1879 - present
- Subscription Type
- SUBSCRIPTION
- License Information
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- Publisher
- Asahi Shinbunsha
- Languages
- Japanese
- Resource Types
- Article Database
- Description
- Japanese newspaper archive (formerly Kikuzo II) includes articles and advertisements from numerous editions of Asahi Shimbun, from 1879 to present, as well as Shukan Asahi, and AERA. Full-text searching is available for articles published after 1984. In addition, access includes Rekishi Shashin: Historical Photo Archive with photographs taken in Asia during the World War II period (1930s-1945), as well as an English-language News Database, Asahi Graph, Jinbutsu: Who's Who database, Image Database of Regional pages, Overseas Editions and Contemporary Words Chiezo. (Updated daily)