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Our Initiatives for Raising Archival
AwarenessCase of Japanese Business Archives and
Archivists

• Yuko Matsuzaki
• Business Archives Specialist
• Resource Center for the History of
  Entrepreneurship
• Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation
• http//www.shibusawa.or.jp/english/index.html

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Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation
Shibusawa Memorial Museum, Shibusawa Eiichi
Memorial Foundation
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Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation

• Rongo to Soroban
• (the Analects and Abacus)
• the compatibility of ethics and commercial
  profit
• ? Corporate social responsibility
• ? No archives, no accountability

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Directory of Business Archives in Japan on the Web

• Public release
• July 22, 2008
• A list of 23 in-house business archives,
• and 7 repositories

http//www.shibusawa.or.jp/center/dir/index.html
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Directory of Business Archives in Japan on the Web

• Including...
• Bank of Japan Archives
• Canon Archives
• Kao Museum and Corporate Archives
• Matsushita (Panasonic) Archives
• Toyota Archives

http//www.shibusawa.or.jp/center/dir/index.html
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Directory of Business Archives in Japan on the
Web
http//www.shibusawa.or.jp/center/dir/open/cp12.ht
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Email newsletter, Business Archives Newsletter

• Content
• Information on literature of business archives
• Information on international archival events
• Current number of subscription 200

http//www.shibusawa.or.jp/center/ba/index.html
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Email newsletter, Business Archives Newsletter

• Examples in the past coverage
• Business Archives Principles and Practice,
  Nos.93 95
• Ethics and the Archival Profession
• by K. Benedict
• American Archivist cover controversy
• Information on SAA annual meeting
• Information on ASA annual conference
• Tata Central Archives (TCA), India

http//www.shibusawa.or.jp/center/ba/bn/index.html
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A derivative project introducing entire articles

• Example
• Elizabeth W. Adkins, Local History versus
  Corporate History Responsible Archival
  Management of International Subsidiaries of
  Multinational Corporations, the Business
  Archives in International Comparison Report to
  the International Council on Archives (ICA)
  Congress 2004)

http//www.shibusawa.or.jp/center/ba/bunken/doc001
_adkins.html
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Some basic numbers of Japanese archives and
archivists
The current membership of the Business Archives Association 88
The total number of full-time staff of the National Archives as of 2007 42
The number of local public (prefectural and municipal) archives 52
The estimated number of (self-reported) archivists in local public (prefectural and municipal) archives No more than 250
The estimated number of (self-reported) archivists with Masters degree in various subjects No more than 200