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The DCJ collects materials on postwar Japan, weighted heavily toward the social sciences. Particular emphasis is placed on resources related to political science, diplomacy, economics and labor, and social-cultural phenomena. In addition to its selection of mainstream studies, the DCJ collects non-trade publications, journals, newsletters, scholarly papers, and reports issued by government ministries and institutions, private sector think tanks, and university affiliated research and policy institutions.

I'm sitting in the Taiwanese National Library here in Taipei and just finished looking through an unusual publication put out in December, 1946 by 臺灣新生報社, the publisher of an important newspaper going by that name. It is entitled, 『民主とは何ぞや』(What is Democracy?) What is immediately striking about the pamphlet is the fact that is is published in the Japanese language over a year after the end of the Japanese colonial period in August 1945. The general editor of the 臺灣新生報, Wu Jinlian (吳金煉) discusses the reason for this choice of language in a special explanatory preface:

Sidney D. Gamble Photographs From 1908 to 1932, Sidney Gamble (1890-1968) visited China four times, traveling throughout the country to collect data for social-economic surveys and to photograph urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside. A sociologist, renowned China scholar, and avid amateur photographer, Gamble used some of the pictures to illustrate his monographs. The Sidney D. Gamble Photographs digital collection marks the first comprehensive public presentation of this large body of work that includes photographs of Korea, Japan, Hawaii, San Francisco, and Russia. The site currently features photographs dated between 1917 and 1932; the 1908 photographs will be digitized and uploaded as part of future additions to the site.

a digital library of primary japanese sources.

Most extensive academic research collection of East Asian materials outside of Asia. Includes publications in the humanities and social sciences on traditional and modern East Asia written in East Asian and Western languages. Notable collection of rare books and manuscripts.

The Japanese historical text initiative offered by the University of California Berkeley. A great digital datasource, that offers mostly free insight into many historical texts, which are very important for the development of a national and cultural(ist) consciousness of this nation.