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4.1 Description on terms
Organizations holding the documents
■National Archives of Japan, The Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The National Institute for Defense Studies
| National Archives of Japan | It opens to the public centering on the data about the policy decision of a prewar-days term, and an execution process and a situation out of an official document important as history data which received change of jurisdiction from the organization of the country etc. 220,000 lists, such as what extracted the relevant passage of main 4 series created focusing on the present and prewar-days term at the Cabinet/Cabinet which is record of a Japanese government center on the subject name level, and 3,970,000 picture is offered. |
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| The Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs | There are about 1,100 copies of national literature, messages, etc. in The Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Now, in the center, 180,000 lists and 5 million top (microfilm conversion) is exhibited. |
| The National Institute for Defense Studies | Center for Military History of the National Institute for Defense Studies possesses about 57,000 army relations (about 150 series) and about 36,000 navy-related (about 90 series) historical records.
Now, in the center, historical records and 750,000 lists and 8,430,000 picture are exhibited. |
Document classification scheme
■Classification scheme for the document is as below.
| Series | In order to ease the search, documents are bundled, by each organizations, in subseries based on the contents, and arranged in series. |
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| Subseries | It holds several subjects. |
| Subject | It indicates single document. A document may be consisted of multiple pages. |
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