Subject guides: Newspapers archived version: Japan

Databases & Indexes

Newspaper Indexes and Databases

Access world news : research collection (NewsBank) This link opens in a new window This comprehensive news collection from NewsBank is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national [Australian] and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people.
Japan Times archives This link opens in a new window This English language archive enables users to easily search for articles across 120 years, ranging from the inaugural issue in 1897 to December 2020. The database offers valuable historical content covering domestic and international politics, economy, culture, TV schedules, advertisements, weather forecasts and other useful topics from a Japanese perspective. Includes digitised issues of The Japan Times, The Japan Advertiser, The Japan Times & Mail, The Japan Times and Advertiser (Morning ed.), Japan Times and Advertiser (Evening ed.) and the Nippon Times.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily reports (Readex/NewsBank) This link opens in a new window Created by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit U.S. policy makers and analysts, FBIS Daily Reports offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events from thousands of monitored broadcasts and publications. Translated into English from more than 50 languages, these comprehensive media reports from around the globe include news, interviews, speeches and editorial commentary. Topics range from political, military and social issues, to economics, science and technology. This database covers: the Cold War, China, the Middle East, Latin America, the Soviet Union, and more, from 1974 to 1996.

Japan chronicle The English-language Japan Chronicle Weekly (1902-1940) is the newspaper of record for Japan's engagement with modernity and its emergence, through war, political and social upheaval and seismic social change in East Asia, onto the world stage in the first half of the 20th century. Includes the weekly Commercial Supplement.

Factiva This link opens in a new window Factiva provides full text access to Australian newspapers, and newspapers and news wires from around the world. Besides newspapers, the database allows users to browse through a collection of global content sources from 200 countries – including continuously updated newswires from Dow Jones and Reuters, journals and magazines, websites, blogs, and multimedia. Factiva also includes brief company and industry profiles, financial information for listed companies worldwide, and global coverage of financial market data.
Maisaku This link opens in a new window Access is restricted to one concurrent user only Complete full-text content of Mainichi shimbun, one of the major Japanese newspapers. Covers Mainichi shimbun from 1872 onwards, Journal Shukan ekonomisuto from 1989 onwards, Mainichi daily news (in English) from 2008 onwards, Mainichi yoron sachi, 20-seiki daijiken, Mainichi shimbun shashi etc. One access only.
Nikkei Telecom 21 This link opens in a new window Nikkei Telecom21 is Japan's largest online database on business. It provides coverage of the Japanese business and financial community through current news reports from these Japanese language newspapers: Nihon keizai shinbun, Nikkei ryūtsū shinbun MJ, Nikkei kinʼyū shinbun, Nikkei sangyō shinbun. Other resources include Nikkei corporation profile, Nikkei Who's who, stock quotations, bond quotations, economic indicators, market forecasts, and in English, Nikkei weekly and Nikkei major articles.

Current Newspapers

Asahi shinbun, (Tokyo/Japan)
Call Number: See Library Holdings
Publication Date: 1940 - present
Language: Japanese
Library Holdings: Asian Collections: Japanese Journals 079.52 A798
no. 283 (Jan. 1943) to no. 330 (Dec. 1948) ; no. 559 (Jan. 1968) to present
Microform: MICROFILM 5924: 1888 to 1896

Current web issue

The Japan News (Tokyo, Japan)
Japan times (Tokyo, Japan)
Call Number: Offsite Store Journals Shelved by title
Publication Date: 1987 - current
Earlier Title: Japan times weekly
Language: English
Library Holdings: v. 39, no. 1 (1999) to v. 40, no. 6 (Mar. 16-31, 2000)
Available online
The Japan times international (Tokyo, Japan)
Call Number: Offsite Store Journals Shelved by title
Publication Date: 1999 - current
Earlier Title: Japan times
Language: English
Library Holdings: v. 39, no. 1 (1999) to v. 40, no. 6 (Mar. 16-31, 2000)
Available online from 1999
はんげんぱつしんぶん Han genpatsu shinbun (Tokyo, Japan)
Call Number: Asian Collections: Japanese Journals 363.1799 H233
Publication Date: 1978 - current
Language: Japanese
Library Holdings: no. 201 (Dec. 1994) to no. 285 (Dec. 2001), no. 287 (Feb. 2002) to 356 (Nov. 2007), no. 358 (Dec. 2008) to no. 360 (Mar. 2008), no.362 (May. 2008) to present
日本経済新聞 Nihon keizai shinbun (Tokyo, Japan)
Call Number: Asian Collections: Japanese Journals 330.952 N691
Publication Date: 1949 - current
Language: Japanese
Library Holdings: v. 46, no. 7 (July 1994) to v. 54, no. 6 (June 2002); v. 56, no. 1 (Jan. 2004) to present
毎日新聞 Mainichi shinbun (Tokyo, Japan)
Publication Date: 1950 - current
Language: Japanese
Library Holdings: Asian Collections Journals 079.52 M217 no. 535 (July 1994) to no. 630 (June 2002)
Offsite Store Journals 079.52 M217 no. 535 (July 1994) to no. 630 (June 2002)
Available online from 1992

The Nikkei weekly (Tokyo, Japan)
Call Number: Microform: MICROFILM 5683
Publication Date: 1991 - current
Earlier Title: Japan economic journal
Language: English
Library Holdings: v. 29, no. 1468 (Jun. 1, 1991) to v. 43, no. 2215 (Jan. 2, 2006)

The Nikkei - Current Website (Tokyo, Japan)

読売新聞 Yomiuri shinbun (Tokyo, Japan)
Call Number: Asian Collections: Japanese Journals 079.52 Y54
Publication Date: 1946 - current
Language: Japanese
Library Holdings: no. 431 (July 1994) to no. 526 (June 2002)

Yomiuri shinbun - Current Website (Tokyo, Japan)

Current Newspapers available in Factiva

Factiva has a number of Japanese newspapers available, including:

Asahi Shimbun

Current web issue

Chunichi Shimbun

Current web issue

Mainichi Shimbun

Current web issue

Current web issue [in English]

Sankei Shimbun

Current web issue

Yomiuri Shimbun

Current web issue

Historical Newspapers

Akahata 赤旗, (Tokyo/Japan)
Call Number: Journals: 079.52 N691.1A
Publication Date: 1966 - 1997
Earlier Title: アカハタ Akahata
Later Title: しんぶん赤旗 Shinbun Akahata
Language: Japanese
Library Holdings: no. 409 (Jan. 1995) to no. 414 (June 1995) ; no. 418 (Oct. 1995) to no. 435 (March 1997)
Asahi shinbun, (Tokyo/Japan)
Call Number: See Library Holdings
Publication Date: 1940 - present
Language: Japanese
Library Holdings: Asian Collections: Japanese Journals 079.52 A798
no. 283 (Jan. 1943) to no. 330 (Dec. 1948) ; no. 559 (Jan. 1968) to present
Microform: MICROFILM 5924: 1888 to 1896
The Japan times international (Tokyo, Japan)
Call Number: Offsite Store Journals Shelved by title
Publication Date: 1999 - current
Earlier Title: Japan times
Language: English
Library Holdings: v. 39, no. 1 (1999) to v. 40, no. 6 (Mar. 16-31, 2000)
Available online from 1999
Japan times (Tokyo, Japan)
Call Number: Offsite Store Journals Shelved by title
Publication Date: 1987 - current
Earlier Title: Japan times weekly
Language: English
Library Holdings: v. 39, no. 1 (1999) to v. 40, no. 6 (Mar. 16-31, 2000)
Available online
毎日新聞 Mainichi shinbun (Tokyo, Japan)
Publication Date: 1950 - current
Language: Japanese
Library Holdings: Asian Collections Journals 079.52 M217 no. 535 (July 1994) to no. 630 (June 2002)
Offsite Store Journals 079.52 M217 no. 535 (July 1994) to no. 630 (June 2002)
Available online from 1992
日本経済新聞 Nihon keizai shinbun (Tokyo, Japan)
Call Number: Asian Collections: Japanese Journals 330.952 N691
Publication Date: 1949 - current
Language: Japanese
Library Holdings: v. 46, no. 7 (July 1994) to v. 54, no. 6 (June 2002); v. 56, no. 1 (Jan. 2004) to present
The Nikkei weekly (Tokyo, Japan)
Call Number: Microform: MICROFILM 5683
Publication Date: 1991 - current
Earlier Title: Japan economic journal
Language: English
Library Holdings: v. 29, no. 1468 (Jun. 1, 1991) to v. 43, no. 2215 (Jan. 2, 2006)
図書新聞 Tosho shinbun = The book review press (Tokyo, Japan)
Call Number: Offsite Store Journals 028.05 T714
Publication Date: 1949 - current
Language: Japanese
Library Holdings: no. 891 (1967) to no. 1403 (1977); incomplete
読売新聞 Yomiuri shinbun (Tokyo, Japan)
Call Number: Asian Collections: Japanese Journals 079.52 Y54
Publication Date: 1946 - current
Language: Japanese
Library Holdings: no. 431 (July 1994) to no. 526 (June 2002)