National Museum of Japanese History

The National Museum of Japanese History(NMJH, or known as “Rekihaku”) is an inter-university research institute established in 1981 for the systematic and sustained pursuit of research into Japan’s history and culture. Rekihaku is distinguished by the set of interrelated operations that define it, including the acquisition, cataloging, preservation, examination, and presentation of historical material and information. These operations are brought together organically under Rekihaku’s museum-based research integration, by means of which its many research activities－conducted on the basis of wide-ranging tangible and intangible materials and through the interdisciplinary collaborations of archival history, archaeology, folklore, and related natural sciences－lay the foundations and break new ground for a research institute. Rekihaku not only involves domestic and foreign researchers in all of those operations, but it also nurtures the generation of researchers to come and fosters broad understanding of Japanese history and culture among both domestic foreign audiences.