is the facility of the National Diet Library, opened in October, 2002. It is based at the

Kansai Science City is an unincorporated city located in the , a border region between Kyoto, Osaka, and Nara Prefectures in Kansai region, Japan. The name is commonly shortened to or . The name Keihanna is constructed by extracting a representative kanji from Kyo ...

in Seika Town, Soraku District, Kyoto Prefecture. In 1978, a first basic concept of Kansai-kan of the NDL was shown as the "Second National Diet Library" by local governments, academic societies and businesses in

Kansai region The or the , lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū. The region includes the prefectures of Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo and Shiga, often also Mie, sometimes Fukui, Tokushima and Tottori. The metropoli ...

. National Diet Library officially launched the Research Committee for the Kansai Project of the National Diet Library (NDL) in 1982.History of the Kansai-kan project
/ref> And the second library was renamed as the Kansai-kan(the present name) in 1987.

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