This database consists of drawings related to overseas shrines, survey tables, current photographs, old photographs, and postcards. This database contains not only materials about the sites of overseas shrines, but also materials such as photographs of the era when the shrines were functioning before the war.

Selected films are available online via this streaming video service.

The Karger program, comprising over 40 book series mainly published in English, covers all disciplines of human medicine and related sciences.

Commercially published books are "unlatched" via crowdfunding.  The books are then made available from freely accessible open access platforms - either Hathitrust or oapen.org.  In oapen.org look for this button:

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This archive documents Korea under Japanese occupation through the postwar period. Japan annexed Korea in 1910, and in the period 1931 to 1945 it ruled Korea by a strict military regime with complete cultural assimilation the order of the day The euphoria following Japan's defeat, and Korea's liberation, in 1945 was short lived as Soviet and American policy makers divided Korea under a joint protectorship. The Korean War, which broke out in 1950, resulted in a strategic stalemate, and the unwillingness of the United Nations to risk a larger conflict with China and perhaps the Soviet Union, ultimately resulted in a 1953 armistice, with Korea divided along roughly prewar lines. Documents from the U.S. Department of State, Division of Far Eastern Affairs, and the U.S. Department of Commerce include: "Annual Report of the Administration of Chosen, 1927-1928: Control of Opium"; "Morphine Addicts in Chosen"; laws and regulations on narcotics; an agricultural report focusing on rice production (1939); issues of repatriation of American citizens from "the Japanese Empire and from Japanese-controlled areas of the Far East" (June 1943); a report from U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk on a visit of a Japanese delegation, in April 1962, to South Korea and to North Korea outlining "… the Department's continuing need for intelligence on North Korea. Archival documents from the U.S. Department of State, Division of Far Eastern Affairs, and the U.S. Department of Commerce, addressing the Japanese occupation of Korea after World War II, Korean War, and 1953 armistice. Digitized archive of diplomatic files documents the internal and foreign affairs of Korea during the period of 1930 to 1960, including the period of Japanese occupation after World War II. Materials include reports on political, military, industrial, and economic affairs. This archive documents Korea under Japanese occupation through the postwar period, and during the Korean war. Japan annexed Korea in 1910, and in the period 1931 to 1945 it ruled Korea by a strict military regime. Documents in this collection are from the U.S. Department of State, Division of Far Eastern Affairs, and the U.S. Department of Commerce, from the U.S. National Archives."

This database is a full text collection of excavation reports of historical sites in Korea operated by national and university museums, research institutions and associations since 1910. It includes the Collection of Japanese Colonial Government’s Researches on Korean Culture and History.

This Korean language ebook database includes many reference works like encyclopaedias; dictionaries; historical and archival resources; biographical sources, and other reference materials related to Korean history; literature; civilization, and medicine.