Meiji Newspaper and Magazine Library

Japanese: 明治新聞雑誌文庫 - めいじしんぶんざっしぶんこ

It belongs to the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo and is located in the basement of the Historiographical Institute of the university. Since 1981, together with the Original Materials Department (formerly the Modern Legislative Course Research Association), it has been called the "Modern Japanese Legal and Political Materials Center." It specializes in storing newspapers and magazines published throughout the country during the Meiji period (those from the Taisho period onwards are limited to those which were first published in the Meiji period and have continued to be published since). The decision to establish the center was made in 1926 thanks to a donation from Hirotaka Segi, founder of the domestic and international news agency Hakuhodo, and operations began in February of the following year. Thanks to the efforts of the first director, Gaikotsu Miyatake, many valuable newspapers and magazines were collected.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

東京大学法学部に所属し，同大学史料編纂所地階にある。1981年以降，原資料部(旧，近代立法課程研究会)とともに，〈近代日本法政資料センター〉と呼ばれる。明治時代に発行された全国各地の新聞･雑誌を専門に収蔵している(大正以後のものは明治の創刊で続刊されているものに限られた)。内外通信社博報堂の創業者瀬木博尚の寄付により1926年設立決定，翌年2月から事務を開始した。初代主任宮武外骨の努力で多くの貴重な新聞･雑誌が収集された。

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