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Property and Buildings (As of April 1, 2025)

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 March 31, 2025)

Books(volumes)

Items	Foreign language books	Japanese language books	Total
Japanese studies and related materials in foreign languages	76,712	6,194	82,906
Materials for Japanese studies	118,333	390,882	509,215
Audio-visual materials related to Japanese studies	2,092	22,501	24,593
Total	197,136	419,534	616,670

Periodicals

Items	Number of titles	Current subscriptions
Japanese periodicals	6,643	869
Foreign periodicals	2,932	199
Total	9,575	1,068

Audio-Visual Materials

Items	Number of items	Contents
DVDs	4,939	Japanese movies, Kabuki performances etc.
Videotapes	3,441	Japanese movies, traditional performing arts, etc.
CDs	2,291	Traditional performing arts, etc.
LDs	48	Animations, etc.
LPs / SPs	8,279	Rōkyoku, etc.
Cassette tapes	118	Performing arts (Folk songs, enka), etc.
Pictures	6,117	Ukiyo-e, old maps, photographs, etc.
Others	618	Films, VCD, etc.

Team Research Project Members (As of May 1, 2025)

Category	Number	Contents
Research Members	432	Members for the seventeen team research projects.

Use of Nichibunken by Outside Researchers (2024)

Library Use

Category	Number
Attendance	14,542
Books Borrowed	5,662
Requests for Photocopies to Other Institutions	857
Requests for Photocopies from Other Institutions	1,454
Interlibrary Loan Requests to Other Institutions	325
Interlibrary Loan Requests from Other Institutions	545