Does it include the entire Meiji Microfilm collection?
No, at least not yet. The site says that it now [as of late September 2005] has “about 59,900 volumes59,900”. The total number of volumes in the collection is about 160,000, which would mean that about 38 per cent is now available. Apparently it has been necessary to check the copyright of all the items before making them public; it is unclear whether this means that certain items will never be included. Nor it is clear why no such check seemed to have been needed for the microfilm collection. Nor is any timetable given for the completion; the figures below suggest that the addition of new titles slowed considerably after 2003, so it seems increasingly likely that the entire microfilm collection will never be made available online, presumably for copyright reasons.
