The Historian · Hana · Tokyo
National Diet Library
I've used this reading room for research. Any adult can enter and request any publication in the national collection. That openness is the point. The GHQ founders wanted it that way.
Japan's legal deposit library, founded 1948 on the GHQ model of the Library of Congress. The building sits between the Diet and the Supreme Court — a postwar democracy's paper spine.
— Hana, The Historian
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