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Property and Buildings (As of April 1, 2021)

Property

Site area: 31,120 m²

Buildings

Building Name	Area (in m²)	Function
North Research Wing	2,113	Conference rooms, laboratories and faculty offices.
South Research Wing	1,721	Individual offices for faculty members, project rooms and graduate student rooms.
International Exchange Wing	797	Facilities for providing information and resources for individual researchers and research institutions in Japan and overseas and for holding seminars and other events.
Research Exchange Wing	837	Facility for the exchange of information among Center and outside researchers, featuring comfortable, homey atmosphere.
Information and Administrative Wing	3,043	Houses the offices for research support and for the administration and management of Nichibunken.
Conference Room I	442	Conference room with a capacity of 60 for large-scale team research projects and meetings.
Library	833	Library reading room holding approximately 60,000 volumes and audio visual room.
Library Annex I	1,398	Library stacks housing 200,000 volumes and an audiovisual collections with facilities for periodical browsing and research.
Library Annex II	1,051	Library stacks mainly foreign books with facilities for periodical browsing and research.
Library Annex III	1,548	Library housing various kinds of audiovisual materials and providing for perusal and research.
Auditorium	2,239	The auditorium is used for international conferences and symposiums, as well as for public lectures.
Nichibunken Houses	1,587	Residential facilities for visiting researchers from both Japan and overseas.
Services Wing	1,130	Houses a restaurant and other service facilities for the Nichibunken faculty and other staff.
Total	18,739

Library Holdings (As of April 1, 2021)

Books(volumes)

Items	Foreign language books	Japanese language books	Total
Japanese studies and related books in foreign languages	72,368	5,760	78,128
Basic books for Japanese studies	115,552	375,008	490,560
Indexes, catalogues, etc. of literature related to Japanese studies	2,861	9,131	11,992
Total	190,781	389,899	580,680

Periodicals

Items	Number of titles	Current subscriptions
Japanese periodicals	7,861	1,376
Foreign periodicals	1,213	143
Total	9,074	1,519

Audio-Visual Materials

Items	Number of items	Contents
DVDs	4,603	Japanese movies, Kabuki performances etc.
Videotapes	3,459	Japanese movies, traditional performing arts, etc.
CD-ROMs	428	Reference materials such as dictionaries
CDs	2,250	Traditional performing arts, etc.
LDs	48	Animations, etc.
LPs	8,276	Rōkyoku, etc.
Cassette tapes	132	Performing arts (Folk songs, enka), etc.
Antique photographs	5,639	Photographs taken in the late-Edo and early-Meiji era as souvenirs
Glass photographs	4,848	Glass photographic plates
Negatives of Japanese photographs	162,000	Negatives of Japanese photographs taken by ASANO Kiichi, TAKAHASHI Yoshiyuki and OKAZAKI Ayaakira

Team Research Project Members (As of May 1, 2021)

Category	Number	Contents
Research Members	464	Members for the eighteen team research projects.

Use of Nichibunken by Outside Researchers (2020)

Library Use

Category	Number
Attendance	14,906
Books Borrowed	7,391
Book Searches	1,074
Requests for Photocopies to Other Institutions	1,419
Requests for Photocopies from Other Institutions	1,622
Interlibrary Loan Requests to Other Institutions	512
Interlibrary Loan Requests from Other Institutions	610