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A Commission was set up in 1922 at the Third General Meeting of the UAI upon a proposal by the Imperial Academy of Japan. During the period 1923-1940, that Academy collected handwritten copies hased on 1985 volumes from the Netherlands. After the Second World War, in 1954, the Commission resumed its work at the request of the renamed Japan Academy which entrusted it to the University of Tokyo's Historiographical Institute with the support of UNESCO-CIPSH, and this time by means of microfilming instead of hand copying. The Institute has established a collection of 720,480 exposures from 16 countries by the time the Institute published Historical Documents Relating to Japan in Foreign Countries : An Inventory of Microfilm Acquisitions in the Library of the Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo, in 14 volumes, Tokyo, 1963-1969. With the support of CIPSH and other funds, the Institute has collected as of March 1994 cumulative microfilm resources amounting to 1,301,208 exposures from 61 archival institutions in 19 countries. These have been utilized for the compilation of The Chronological Source-books of Japanese History and Historical Documents in Foreign Languages Relating to Japan by the Institute and are open to academic use by domestic and foreign scholars specializing in Japanese history and international relations in East Asia.

The project was adopted by the UAI in 1922 as a Category C project.

Directed by the Japan Academy. Directors : S. Mikami 1921-1928, K. Tsuboi 1928-1936, Z. Tsuji 1936-1943, N. Murakami 1943-1949, Z. Tsuji 1952-1955, S. Yamada 1955-1962, N. Tsuji 1962-1971, S. Iwao 1971-1988, A. Kobata 1988--

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