Japan’s NDL has 23,000 digitized books newly available on the internet
(21 February 2013) On 21 February approximately 23,000 books, which had previously been provided only inside the NDL, became available on the internet after copyright clearance. The materials include works of Kunio Yanagita and Eiji Yoshikawa, whose copyrights expired in January 2013. Newly added materials can be searched and read in the Digital Library from…