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Chiba Prefectural East Library (千葉県立東部図書館, Chiba-kenritsu Tōbu Toshokan) Tokyo Metropolitan Library (東京都立図書館, Tōkyō-toritsu Toshokan) Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library (東京都立中央図書館, Tōkyō-toritsu Chūō Toshokan)
The Imperial Library of Japan was established as the Shojaku-kan (書籍館) under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education on September 3, 1872. The library was housed within the Yushima Seidō and combined the functions of both a library and a museum, and inherited the surviving documents held by the Tokugawa shogunate prior to the Meiji Restoration.
The National Diet Library (NDL) (国立国会図書館, Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan) is the national library of Japan and among the largest libraries in the world. It was established in 1948 for the purpose of assisting members of the National Diet of Japan (国会, Kokkai) in researching matters of public policy.
Tokyo's sewer network is designed to handle rainfall of up to 75 mm per hour, but increasingly there are localised storms bringing down as much as 100 mm, overtaxing the system, said Shun Otomo, a ...
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Although she was born long after the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by atomic bombs, 58-year-old Yoshiko Watanabe couldn't stop weeping on Friday night when she learned ...
Tokyo Metropolitan Library (東京都立図書館, Tōkyō toritsu toshokan) is the metropolitan public library system for Tokyo, Japan. Libraries The Tokyo ...