Yomiuri archives free this month
A common lament among Japan observers is the horrible state of online news archives. Once upon a time the Saga Shimbun had a great archive going back to the dawn of its Web existence. It was shut down, probably at the insistence of Kyodo et al., whose wire articles were also available going back to the mid-1990s.
Good news, for a limited time: Yomiuri has made its ヨミダス歴史館 available to all for the month of April. Search the main Japanese paper or the Daily Yomiuri, narrow your search to noteworthy people or to a certain era. If this was permanently open to the Web-browsing public it would be a formidable database for Japan researchers.
The info you need:
ID: ustemp
Password: m7k77s
(Via the H-Japan list.)
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