Japan: The Past and the present of the Japanese National Bibliography Service
(24 Mar 2025) Tanaka Ryonosuke of the Acquisitions and Bibliography Department, National Diet Library, introduces the transition of the Japanese National Bibliography from paper-based formats to digital data, now known as the Japanese National Bibliographic Data in this article. It began with “Nohon Geppo” in 1948 and evolved to digital formats with JAPAN/MARC in…