Yomidas contains more than 15 million articles printed by The Yomiuri Shimbun from its first issue of November 2, 1874, up until yesterday.
Meiji, Taisho & Showa Eras (November 2, 1874-December 31, 1989)
Whenever available, archives are taken from The Yomiuri Shimbun Final Edition. For the Meiji, Taisho and Showa Eras, all articles are from the final edition of the Tokyo metropolitan region edition only.
-Issue Dates
In some cases, the database will not contain any articles for specific dates. Such cases include:
--newspaper holidays
--dates for which no surviving archive was of sufficient quality to scan and catalog
--alternate days between November 1874 and April 1875, when the newspaper was published every other day
--the ten days following the Great Kanto Earthquake (September 2 through 11, 1923), when it was impossible to publish a newspaper
--a four-day employee strike from July 13 to 16, 1946.
In some cases, the articles may also be difficult to read owing to the quality of the surviving archive.
-Second Evening Edition
During the Japan-China War, the 8-page evening edition was divided into two 4-page editions, the “first evening edition” and the “second evening edition”, from August 16 through December 7, 1937. (The issue date for the evening editions was the following day’s date.)
A second evening edition was also issued on April 10 and June 3, 1959.
There are two different evening editions dated August 1, 1950, owing to a change in dating of the edition from the following day’s date to the actual date of issue. The evening edition published on August 1 was released as a “second evening edition.”
-Other Exceptions
The Yomiuri Shimbun head office was destroyed by fire in an air raid on May 25, 1945. Under the mutual assistance agreement signed by newspaper publishers, The Yomiuri Shimbun published an edition of The Asahi Shimbun under The Kyodo Shimbun name on May 27. From May 28 through May 30, The Yomiuri Shimbun published an edition of The Asahi Shimbun under the Yomiuri Hochi name.
Although the Meiji Era ended on July 30, 1912, The Yomiuri Shimbun was published with the Meiji Era name until July 31.
From January 10, 1926, through October 9, 1943, and from November 26, 1949, through July 31, 1950, the issue date of the evening edition was the date of the day following the actual issuance.
Heisei & Reiwa Eras
The Final Edition of The Yomiuri Shimbun has been cataloged since September 1986. Feature pages were added later.
All pages of the Final Edition of the Osaka head office are cataloged from November 1990, as are the top and city news pages from the Final Edition from the Seibu and the Chubu head offices.
All pages of the Final Edition of the Seibu head office are cataloged from May 1997.
All pages of the Final Edition of the Chubu head office are cataloged from December 1999.
Regional Pages
Articles from regional editions are cataloged from the date shown through the present.
December 1986: Articles from the Tokyo metropolitan area regional pages.
May 1997: Articles from the Osaka regional pages.
October 1998: Articles from the Kanagawa, Chiba, Saitama, Hyogo, Kyoto and Fukuoka regional pages.
January 1999: Articles from the Tokyo (Tama area), Gunma, and Ibaraki regional pages.
March 1999: Articles from the Tochigi, Yamanashi, Nagano, Yamaguchi and Kumamoto regional pages.
April 1999: Articles from the Wakayama and Nara regional pages.
May 1999: Articles from the Shiga, Fukui and Hiroshima regional pages.
June 1999: Articles from the Okayama, Shimane, Ehime and Kagawa regional pages.
July 1999: Articles from the Oita regional pages.
September 1999: Articles from the Niigata, Fukushima, Miyagi, Aomori and Tokushima regional pages.
October 1999: Articles from the Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Tottori, Kochi and Kagoshima regional pages.
March 2000: Articles from the Shizuoka and Yamagata regional pages.
December 2000: Articles from the Nagasaki regional pages.
February 2001: Articles from the Saga and Miyazaki regional pages.
March 2001: Articles from the Hokkaido, Iwate, Akita, Toyama and Ishikawa regional pages.
Regional Sections of the Showa Era (1933- 2001): Optional
A total of 2.76 million pages from 46 prefectures are in this section. If one prefecture has several editions, all editions are included. (No regional section for Okinawa).
The contents are cataloged as page scans, and you can search by the issue date.
*Keyword search available for editions from Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama Chiba prefectures and part of Ibaraki prefecture.
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The type of display differs from the Meiji, Taisho and Showa Eras (from November 2, 1874, to January 7, 1989) to the Heisei and Reiwa Eras (from November 2, 1989, to the latest issue). Articles from Meiji, Taisho and Showa Eras are contained as high-quality scans of the pages, and you can search the titles and keywords attached on each article.
Articles issued during the Heisei and Reiwa Eras (after 1986 onward) are contained as text data from which you can search titles, whole texts and related keywords.
* Articles issued between 1986 and 1989 are searchable with both methods of the Meiji, Taisho and Showa Eras and the Heisei and Reiwa Eras.
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The Japan News
Articles from The Daily Yomiuri are cataloged from September 1989 through March 2013.
Articles from The Japan News are cataloged from April 2013 through the present.