• Institutional Repositories in Japan:
  In the Framework of Cyberscience Infrastructure
• Kyoto International Manga Museum
• Kyoto University Digital Library and
  Institutional Repository
• Journal@rchive: An Archiving Project of
  Japanese Academic Journals

Session: Special Session 1: Culture and Academic Services

NII provides many digital library content services: CAT, a list of
book and journal indexes, KAKEN, grants and reports on research, ELS
has many articles from journals, REO has articles from Springer and
others (on the order of millions of documents.) These have been built
in cooperation with Universities, which contribute to the archives.
NII also has worked to construct an infrastructure for these kinds of
services. NII has produced software for creating Institutional
Repositories, and is currently working with Japanese institutions to
deploy more repositories. Currently working with 57 universities and
22 research partners. Two important issues are marketing, how to
collect content and promote access, and copyright: publishing policies
and how to move towards open access.

See their
website for more details.

In 1973 Seika University launched a Manga studies program. They now
opened up a museum to open that up to the world. The museum collects
and makes available many materials, approximately 200,000 items. The
museum is interactive, and gathers information about visitors’ readers
experiences. They also plan to make a manga archive available on the
internet, known as MangaPedia. They are also implementing a metadata
system that is useful for manga, based on open standards for metadata
exchange. They also plan to distribute images in JPEG2000 format (but
nobody supports that yet!)