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A part of the “Dajo Ruiten,” a transcription and compilation of laws and regulations from the Dajokan Nikki, Dajokan Nisshi, Kobun Roku, etc. from 1867 to 1881, was released. The “Dajo Ruiten: Miscellaneous Section” contains materials dealing with the Satsuma Rebellion and other samurai uprisings.

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• National Archives of Japan > Records concerning Dajokan/Cabinet > Dajo Ruiten : Grand Council of State Categories of Regulations (including drafts) > Dajo Ruiten Vol. 3, 1878–1879
  →Eighty-four volumes (reference codes starting with A2501xxxxxxx) were released.
   
• National Archives of Japan > Records concerning Dajokan/Cabinet > Dajo Ruiten : Grand Council of State Categories of Regulations (including drafts) > Dajo Ruiten Vol. 4, 1880
  →Fifty-eight volumes (reference codes starting with A2410xxxxxxx) were released.
   
• National Archives of Japan > Records concerning Dajokan/Cabinet > Dajo Ruiten : Grand Council of State Categories of Regulations (including drafts) > Dajo Ruiten Vol. 5, 1881
  →Thirty-nine volumes (reference codes starting with A2410xxxxxxx) were released.
   
• National Archives of Japan > Records concerning Dajokan/Cabinet > Dajo Ruiten : Grand Council of State Categories of Regulations (including drafts) > Dajo Ruiten: Miscellaneous Section
  →Thirty-one volumes (reference codes starting with A2409xxxxxxx) were released.
   
• National Archives of Japan > Records concerning Dajokan/Cabinet > Dajo Ruiten : Grand Council of State Categories of Regulations (including drafts) > Dajo Ruiten: Supplementary Compilation
  →Forty-eight volumes (reference codes starting with A2409xxxxxxx, A2411xxxxxxx and A2412xxxxxxx) were released.
   

Newly available to the public are assumed questions and answers, etc., prepared as reference materials for government responses in the Imperial Diet, materials related to German reparations after World War I, and documents related to the enactment, amendment, and/or repeal of pre-war laws and regulations.

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• National Archives of Japan > Records related to Financial History > Records of Financial History > Reference materials for Diet deliberation
  →This group of documents includes statistical findings that served as reference materials for the Imperial Diet (1890–1947). One hundred and eighty-four volumes (reference codes starting with A2407xxxxxxx) were released for the 77th to 79th Diets.
   
• National Archives of Japan > Records related to Financial History > Records of Financial History > Reparations Documents
  →These documents relate to German reparations after World War I (created from 1911 to 1935). Forty-seven volumes (reference codes starting with A2501xxxxxxx) were released on German reparations and social conditions of the time.
   
• National Archives of Japan > Related to Economy and Industry > Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce: Agriculture and Forestry Administration – Documents of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
  →These materials include documents related to the enactment, amendment, and/or repeal of laws and regulations (cabinet meeting documents, etc.), as well as documents related to the enactment, amendment, and/or repeal of various regulations and public notices. One hundred and seventy-five volumes for the years up to 1947 (reference codes starting with A2406xxxxxxx) were released.
   

Newly available to the public are materials on Cabinet meetings, meetings of administrative vice-ministers, and other meetings created after the war, as well as records of the deliberation processes for drafts of laws and regulations created by the Cabinet and various ministries and agencies.

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• National Archives of Japan > Cabinet Secretariat > Cabinet Affairs Office > Records of the Cabinet Meetings, Meetings of the Administrative Vice-Ministers, and Other Meetings of Officials
  →Records of the Cabinet Meetings, Meetings of the Administrative Vice-Ministers, and Other Meetings of Officials comprise Cabinet meeting materials and meetings of administrative vice-ministers and others on file in chronological order. One hundred and thirty-seven volumes for 1962–1963 (reference codes starting with A2405xxxxxxx) were released.
   
• National Archives of Japan> Cabinet Legislation Bureau> Records of Deliberations on Bills and Proposed Ordinances
  →These records concern deliberations on legislative bills by counselors of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau. Two hundred and sixty-four volumes for 1957–1959 (reference codes starting with A2405xxxxxxx) were released.