The is the

archive An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or ...

of the city of

Kobe Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whic ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. It contains records dating back to the mid 19th century. The building containing the archive is currently located in the Chuo district of Kobe, near

Shin-Kobe Station is a railway station on the San'yō Shinkansen and the Seishin-Yamate Line serving the city of Kobe, Japan, and the surrounding area. It is located to the north of Kobe city centre, at the foot of Mount Rokkō. The Shinkansen trains mostly run ...

. The building is in

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

style, and was recognised as a "significant building" in 2000.

Archived items

Archived itemsA full list of archived items can be found on th
official website of the archives
/ref> include: * English language newspapers: ** ''The Hiogo and Osaka Herald'' (4 January 1868 to March 1870) ** ''The Hiogo News'' (23 April 1868 to 30 December 1887) ** ''The Kobe Chronicle'' (3 July 1897 to 31 December 1901) ** ''The Japan Chronicle'' (8 January 1902 to 26 December 1912) * Japan Gazette Official Directory from 1868 to the early 20th Century * Japanese Newspapers in the Archives include, ** ''Kobe Shinpo'' ** ''Kobe Nippo'' ** ''

Kobe Shimbun is a Japanese-language daily newspaper based in Kobe, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea ...

'' ** ''

Asahi Shimbun is one of the four largest newspapers in Japan. Founded in 1879, it is also one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. Its circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition and ...

Hyogo Edition'' ** ''Shinko Hyogo Shinbun'' * Records from the

Kobe foreign settlement The , also known as the Kobe foreign concession, was a foreign settlement located about 3.5 kilometers east of the Port of Kobe, in the future Chūō-ku of Kobe, Japan. Established based on the Ansei Treaties, it existed from January 1, 1868, to ...

and court records from that period (in both English and Japanese)

References

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