The March, 1940 issue of 主婦之友 (The Housewife's Friend) is on Internet Archive to read or download. Explore this key household magazine during Japan's full-scale invasion of China, but still before Japan's southern advance in 1941. 1/6 archive.org/details/shuf...

I created a simple vibe-coded cross-platform app "Grimmia" (open source and public domain) to help fans of @archive.org search, download, and upload. Read more and download here: github.com/moss-on-ston... The app is not signed, so do read the install instructions for help with install warnings.

There are 353 issues of 中央公論, 1900-1930 on the Internet Archive to read or download. Together with 改造, many issues of which are also on IA, this is likely the most frequently cited periodical in historical scholarship on modern Japan up to 1945. archive.org/search?query... 1/8

The 27 issues of the important Taishō period Japanese journal 近代思想 ("Modern Thought"), 1912-1916 are on the Internet Archive to read or download. This was co-edited by the Japanese anarchist Ōsugi Sakae (大杉栄), killed by military police in the Amakasu incident, 1923. 1/2 archive.org/search?query...

There are five english annual supplements for the Osaka Aashi from 1927 to 1931 on the Internet Archive to read or download. Rich sources for students of Japanese history to browse. archive.org/search?query...

The pre-1945 Japanese magazine with the highest recorded circulation numbers is キング ("King"), a mass periodical aimed at a very wide readership. There are 13 issues of the overseas edition on Internet Archive to read or download. Would be great to see more there. archive.org/search?query...

There are 59 issue of the Japanese journal 光, 1919-1926 on Internet Archive, the organ for the spiritual & humanitarian organization Ittōen. The journal includes many pieces by later founder of the new religion 生長の家, but also four articles by philosophers 西田幾多郎 and 和辻哲郎. archive.org/search?query...

There are 23 issues of the journal 種蒔く人 (La Semanto), 1921-1923 which is a key periodical in the emergence of the proletarian literature movement. It is a predecessor to the journal 文芸戦線. archive.org/search?query...

There are 36 issues of the important women's literary journal 女人芸術, 1928-30, on Internet Archive to read and download. Several important feminist, socialist, and anarchist writers contributed to the journal which follows in the footsteps of 青鞜 and 番紅花 (both on IA). archive.org/search?query...

There are 18 issues of the short-lived leftist journal 『大衆』, 1926-8 which preceded the formation of the『労農』on the Internet Archive to read and download. archive.org/search?query...

There are over 150 issues of the Japanese general interest magazine『改造』 1919-1930 on the Internet Archive to read or download. This is one of the most important historical periodicals for the study of modern Japan. archive.org/search?query...

All six issues of the 1914 Japanese women's literary journal 番紅花 ("Saffron") are on Internet Archive to read or download. Founded by 青鞜 member and important figure in the queer feminist history of Japan, Otake Beniyoshi (Otake Kazue, Otake Kōkichi, Tomimoto Kazue). 1/2 archive.org/search?query...

There are 45 issues of the women's magazine 新女界, 1909-1912 on the Internet Archive to read or download. This was published by the Hongō church, which a number of famous Christian socialists, anarchists, and other interesting figures were members of. 1/2 archive.org/search?query...

There are 14 issues of the Japanese correspondence education journal for women 通信女学講義錄, 1887-8 on Internet Archive to read and download: archive.org/search?query... There are also 21 issues of the Japanese women's magazine 文明之母 1889-90 on Internet Archive: archive.org/search?query...

There are 68 issues of one of the earliest Japanese periodicals for women, 女學樷誌 ("The Ladies' Journal of Education"), 1885-1887 on Internet Archive to read or download. archive.org/search?query...

There are over 250 issues of the Japanese women’s periodical 愛国婦人, 1902-1912 on the Internet Archive to read or download. There are now over 3,000 issues of Japanese women’s magazines on IA. archive.org/search?query...

Three important sources for the study of colonial Korean history are available on Internet Archive to read or download: 京城日報 (11,437 issues) 1905-1944 archive.org/details/kjnp... 東亞日報 (10,255 issues) 1920-1950 archive.org/details/tong... 朝鮮日報 (10,301 issues) 1920-1950 archive.org/details/chos...

There are over 380 issues of the Japanese journal 婦人衞生雜誌, 1888-1926 on Internet Archive to read or download. This is a key source in the study of the rise of modern concept of hygiene in Japan and a turn to a focus on women's bodies in public health. archive.org/search?query...

Two of the most useful sources for Taiwanese colonial history are the Japanese periodicals 台湾時報 & 台湾日日新報. Many issues of both can be read/downloaded from Internet Archive. 台湾時報 1919-1928, 1935-1939 (138 issues) archive.org/search?query... 台湾日日新報 1932-1944 (3,772 issues) archive.org/details/twnn...

There are over 350 issues of the Japanese women’s magazine 女鑑, 1891-1909 on the Internet Archive to read and download: archive.org/search?query...

I haven’t posted anything for a long time, but if I still had students working on Meiji Taisho women’s history/literature I would absolutely send them to the Internet Archive. This amount of well curated material is amazing. Kudos to the folks uploading.

There are over 120 issues of the Japanese women’s literary magazine 女子文壇, 1905-1913 on the Internet Archive to read or download. Filled with reader contributions, this was an important outlet for women writers before the emergence of 青鞜. archive.org/search?query...

There are 128 issues of the Japanese women's magazine 婦人と新社會 run by the social activist 山田わか (1879–1957) on the Internet Archive to read and download, covering women's rights and education, political thought, pacifism, and international news one the women's movement. archive.org/search?query...

There are 64 issues of the important early Japanese socialist weekly periodical 平民新聞, 1903-1905 on the Internet Archive to read or download. This includes the first (partial) translation of the Communist Manifesto into Japanese (see issue 53). archive.org/search?query...

There are 38 issues of the early Japanese socialist women’s periodical 世界婦人 1907-1909 on Internet Archive to read or download, edited by Fukuda Hideko (福田英子). archive.org/search?query...

There are over 160 issues of the Japanese women’s magazine 婦人週報, 1915-1919 on Internet Archive to read or download, edited by Kobashi Miyoko (小橋三四子) with assistance from the feminist and future politician Oku Mumeo (奥むめお) archive.org/search?query...

There are over 120 issues of the Japanese journal dedicated to the campaign against licensed prostitution 廓清 1911-1922 on Internet Archive for reading and download. archive.org/search?query...

There are all 17 issues of the short-lived first Japanese union periodical for women, 友愛婦人 1916-1918 on Internet Archive to read or download. archive.org/search?query...

There are over 120 issues of the Japanese women's magazine 婦人新報, 1907-1925 on the Internet Archive to read or download. This was the decades long running main organ for the Japan Woman's Christian Temperance Union. archive.org/search?query...

There are over 50 issues of the Japanese socialist magazine for women 家庭雑誌 1903-1909 (not to be confused with the very different journal 家庭雑誌 1892-1898) on the Internet Archive to read or download. Several important early Japanese leftists published in this periodical. archive.org/search?query...

There are 25 issues of the Japanese women's magazine 女性改造, 1922-1924 on the Internet Archive to read and download: archive.org/search?query...

There are over 120 issues of 觀察, 1946-1950 on Internet Archive for reading and download. archive.org/search?query...

There are 119 issues of the 1892-1898 journal 家庭雑誌 (there is more than one journal with that name) on Internet Archive for reading and download. archive.org/search?query...

Moved the old pastebin keeping track of various publications in our collection on IA to a gist due to problems with that website. Also added a new section at bottom highlighting other materials of interest on IA: gist.github.com/moss-on-ston...

Seven of the nine issues of the important but only briefly lasting feminist Japanese magazine ビアトリス (Beatrice), 1916-1917 are on the Internet Archive for reading and download. The journal is seen as a successor to 青鞜 (Bluestockings) which is also on Internet Archive. archive.org/search?query...

There are over 500 issues of the North China Daily News 1937-1939 (so far) on the Internet Archive for reading and download. archive.org/details/@jwu...

There are over 160 issues of Japanese women's magazine 女子青年界, 1904-1922, on Internet Archive for download and viewing. This was the magazine of the YWCA in Japan. archive.org/search?query...

There are 36 issues of 労働婦人, 1928-1930, for download or browsing on the Internet Archive. This important women’s labor journal was published by the 日本労働総同盟婦人部 archive.org/search?query...

There are over 80 issues of the Japanese magazine for (but rarely by) women 以良都女 (Iratsume) 1887-1891 on the Internet Archive for download or viewing. The journal is also known for its role in the genbun-itchi (言文一致) movement. archive.org/search?query...

There are over 1,000 historical Japanese women’s magazine issues on the Internet Archive, mostly from 1880s-1920s to read and download including 青鞜, 女学雑誌, 女学世界, 婦選, 婦人運動, 処女の友, 新真婦人, and 女性同盟: archive.org/search?query...

There are over a dozen issues of the Japanese women’s rights journal 女性同盟 1920-1922 on the Internet Archive to read or download: archive.org/search?query...

There are nearly 50 issues of the Japanese women’s rights magazine 新真婦人 1913-1921 on the Internet Archive to read or download archive.org/search?query...

There are almost 40 issues of the Japanese women’s magazine 処女の友 1919-1922 on the Internet Archive to read or download archive.org/search?query...

There are over 60 issues of the Japanese women's suffrage magazine 婦選 published by the 婦選獲得同盟 on Internet Archive, mostly from the 1920s archive.org/search?query...

There are over 70 issues of the women's labor magazine 婦人運動, founded by the Working Women's Society (職業婦人社) available to read or download on the Internet Archive, 1923-1930 archive.org/search?query...

There are over 190 issues of the Meiji period women's magazine 女学世界 on the Internet Archive, 1901-1912: archive.org/search?query...

There are over 500 issues of the important Meiji period periodical 女学雑誌 ("The Woman's Magazine") on the Internet Archive, from 1885-1904. archive.org/details/joga...

Over 70 issues of the leftist labor journal 『進め』can be found on the Internet Archive and can be downloaded there by issue or bundled volumes, 1923-1929. archive.org/search?query...

There are 29 issues of 満州之社会 on the Internet Archive, 1922-1926 archive.org/search?query...

There are 52 issues of the important Japanese feminist journal 青鞜 (Bluestocking) on the Internet Archive, 1911-1916 archive.org/search?query...