Abstract
This article analyzes characteristics of the records which have been, and are scheduled to be, transferred from
the Board of Audit of Japan to the National Archives of Japan, to get a big picture of them. Information of
these records were organized based on the organizational functions of the Board with reference to the
“appraisal, destruction and scheduling information” element in the General International Standard Archival
Description, ISAD (G).
This article yields the following results:
(1) the perspective of the records created and archived under the Board of Audit Act enacted in 1947 ; and
(2) a complete list of the series of the records which have been, and are scheduled to be, transferred.