Facilities and Equipment

1st Floor

Japanese books and newly arrived periodicals are shelved on the first floor.

Reference books, Japanese large books (folio), series of paperbacks, and faculty member books are available here as well. The new arrivals corner, book selection, and PCs for information retrieval (OPAC) are in front of the counter, and there are about 90 seats in the reading area.

Audio-Visual Room (1F)

Equipment for using DVDs, CDs, videotapes, and the cassette tapes are available. Video and language learning materials etc., can be used.Videos must not be used outside the library.

Microfilm and braille material is available. An image-enlarging system is installed. Please ask the librarian.

Newspaper Reading Room (1F)

Main domestic newspapers and several foreign newspapers are available. Back issues for one year are in the closed stacks.

  • Domestic newspapers 9
  • English-language newspapers 3
  • French-language newspaper 1
  • German-language newspaper 1
  • Chinese-language newspapers 2
2nd Floor

Foreign books and books from the Human Rights Collection are available with about 270 seats for self-study.

Open Space Laboratory (2F)

28 computers are connected to the Internet that serve as an Open Space Laboratory (OSL) of the Institute for Information Management and Communication.

Basement Stacks (B1 / B2)

Japanese books (new and old-classification), Japanese periodicals are available.

South Wing Stacks (Yoshida-South Campus Academic Center Bldg. South Wing B1)

Foreign books (new and old-classification), and foreign periodicals are available.