An archive of approximately 500 websites touching on central issues of the time, including politics & economics, employment & labor issues, social issues, child care & pregnancy, academic & humanities, environment & nature, science & technology, internet & computers.  The aim of the collection is to give a preserve ephemeral websites that fall between the cracks of other collections and give an important, if complex, perspective on this three year period. 

Access the web archive from SearchWorks.

The subcategories are as follows:

Politics & economics (54): political parties, financial institutions, political leaders, TPP, security

Employment & labor issues (46): labor unions, industrial cooperatives, irregular employment for youth, at-home work

Social issues (156): aging society, Okinawa, support for women, separate surnames for married couples, food destruction, baby drop box, social withdrawal, international help, LGBTQ, influential social figures, revitalization of rural areas, preservation of old towns, 2020 Tokyo Olympics, blog rankings(politics)

Child care & pregnancy (29): wait lists for child care, authorized nursery schools, egg freezing services

Academic & humanities (41): higher education, religious organizations, university departments (law, economics, sociology)

Environment & nature (75): resources, natural energy, anti-nuclear power generation, global warming, nuclear energy-related institutes

Science & technology (41): robots, advanced materials, research institutes

Internet & computers (30): net harassment, cyber security

Current and future scholars can explore many sites on each topic to gain a complex and multivaried perspective on contemporary Japanese society.  These sites represent different types of organizations, from grassroots through national and international groups.   

*Selection for inclusion in this web archiving project does not indicate an endorsement of the sites.

After selecting possible sites to crawl, Stanford Libraries sends a notification letter to inform the site owners of our intent.  Thereafter, the chosen sites are crawled on a regular basis.  The web crawler records publicly available information, including the contents of the seed URL and other pages from the same website.  There is a minimum of a six-month embargo before publishing the archived sites online.  Thereafter, the archived sites appear on the Stanford Web Archive Portal with a prominent overlay navigation bar, which differentiates them from the live site.   

A sample notification letter can be found here.

An example of how archived sites appear in Stanford Libraries’ catalog, SearchWorks, can be found here.  

This is an example of how they appear in the Wayback presentation. 

Further details about Stanford University Libraries’ web archiving program can be found here.

アーカイブのためにウェブサイトを選定した後、当館は、サイト管理者へ 許諾のための通知を送付いたします。その後、選定されたウェブサイトは定期的に自動収集されます。それらは、"archive.org_bot"と呼ばれ る自動収集ロボットを使用して、サイトのURLやサイトを構成している文書、画像などのファイルを収集し記録します。保存されたウェブサ イトの公開には、最低６ヶ月間の閲覧制限が設けられます。その後、保存されたウェブサイトは、スタンフォード大学のウェブアーカイブ・ポータル上で、ナビ ゲーションの上位部分に重層のバーが表示され、現サイトとの区別が判別出来るよう公開されます。詳しくは以下のリンクを参照して下さい。

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