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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, 2024)

Books(volumes)

Items Foreign language books Japanese language books Total
Japanese studies and related materials in foreign languages 75,839 6,172 82,011
Materials for Japanese studies 117,599 386,864 504,463
Audio-visual materials related to Japanese studies 2,079 22,367 24,446
Total 195,517 415,403 610,920

Periodicals

Items Number of titles Current subscriptions
Japanese periodicals 6,611 888
Foreign periodicals 2,914 206
Total 9,525 1,094

Audio-Visual Materials

Items Number of items Contents
DVDs 4,933 Japanese movies, Kabuki performances etc.
Videotapes 3,412 Japanese movies, traditional performing arts, etc.
CDs 2,255 Traditional performing arts, etc.
LDs 48 Animations, etc.
LPs / SPs 8,276 Rōkyoku, etc.
Cassette tapes 114 Performing arts (Folk songs, enka), etc.
Pictures 6,032 Ukiyo-e, old maps, photographs, etc.
Others 618 Films, VCD, etc.

Team Research Project Members (As of May 1, 2024)

Category Number Contents
Research Members 403 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
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