This study investigated Mie Prefectures system that oversees administrative publications and challenges facing this network; the study, is part of a project to examine the management and preservation of administrative publications at the prefectural level. Mie Prefecture, with the inauguration of the Mie Prefectural Museum which also functions as an archive, recently reorganize the system for managing and preserving administrative publications, which is by the following．（1）A new provision requires that administrative publications should be sent to both the Mie Prefectural Library and the Assembly library. Both have traditionally managed administrative publications, so the new system will institutionally support the roles of the two libraries as suppliers of administrative publications at the institutional level; and（2）As the official archive, the Mie Prefectural Museum must keep at least one copy of all the prefectureʼs administrative publications. In order to operate the new system effectively and keep it allow for constant improvement,certain efforts will be necessary to implement it and specific strategies will need to be adopted to promote communication among multiple management agencies.

This paper traces, from January 2012 to July 2014, the amendments to the Public Records and Archives Management Act（Act No. 66 of 2009）and its Regulations concerned, in which have been discussed mainly the creation of Cabinet and Departmental Minutes in the Administrative Documents （succeeded the causes of the Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs （Act No. 42 of 1999）and its Regulations concerned），and points out the serious problems as follows: a）these Administrative Documents do not include many documents/records; 1）the sold publications as the Departmental documents/records, 2）the legal documents/records managed in the other laws, and 3）memorandum documents/records with the transactions by the officials, b）by the Act on the Protection of Special Designated Secrets （Act No. 108 of 2013），the number of legal documents/records will be increased, and c）Cabinet Minutes and others are not the authentic records, because of the lack of their source­memorandum documents/records as the evidential materials, and no procedure of confirming them by the participants of these Meetings; accompanied with this, it has been invented a new mythology that Cabinet Minute is created for the first time after the Cabinet system started on 1885 in Modern Japan. For the way of the solutions of these problems, this paper suggests, from the point of view that public documents/records are public property, these two Acts should be renewed, particularly Administrative Documents and other 1）－3）documents/records above mention, should be integrated to Public Documents/Records , and it will be needed for Government to establish a new organization whose function will control powerfully the Japanese Government Departmental Archives Records Management:ARM.

‘The Service Corner for Citizen Activitiesʼin the Tama Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Public Institution of Social Education established in 1972,rearranging continued saving‘Materials of Citizen Activities’until it was abolished in 2002. After the abolition, a preservation campaign was carried out by citizen group”Aunty Tama”of Tachikawa City and a citizenʼs volunteer, and”the meeting which made a citizen activity document,information center”started in 2006. Most of document group were transferred in 2011 by the Hosei University Ohara Institute for social research, and”Tama Archives for Citizen Activities”opened it in Tachikawa City based on document group collected after 2002 in 2014.

Starting in the mid­20th century, Japanese citizens began to organize politically as free and independent individuals, without forming well­structured organizations. Thus, their records sometimes deviate from traditional archival frameworks, based on an understanding of traditional bureaucratic, hierarchical organizations. This essay will assess how well traditional and alternative archival frameworks function in regards to the case of a Japanese citizens'movement that supported American Vietnam War deserters who were against fighting. The author will then show that alternative frameworks with a“continuum”mindset （which have been proposed since the 1980s）are more suitable for managing the records of citizens who coordinate activities beyond the bounds of traditional organizations, and even beyond national borders.

This paper is an analysis of the Island Office were present in both Mainland japan and Japanʼs colonies . Based on the fact that the archives are meant to draw attention to the office in Mainland Japan, the agency was established within the context of the regional system and colonial administration, rather than by the island officeʼs document management system; there was a mentality of expanding the Japanese empire and its archives.

This paper recommendations but not “document” directly to the Island Office installation process and authority, such as the note at the scene, think of“the expansion of the Empire and archives”perspective to be rich. The mainland office was set up in the naichi region in Tsushima. An office was also set up in Japanʼs colonies, such as Koreaʼs Ulleung Island 0ffice, Koreaʼs Jeju Island Office, and Taiwanʼs Penghu Island Office.

This paper focuses on a land survey project carried out on the Korean Peninsula in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, which is a period including the end of the Korean Empire and the period immediately after colonization by Japan. The only past documents showing the process of this project whose existence has been clarified are one discovered in the 1980s in Gyeongsangnam­do, Gimhae­gun County office, and the Chang­won­gun land survey project document that the author discovered in the Gyeonsangnam­do Masan City office in 2000, so the discovery of documents has not progressed. This report analyzes documents concerning the Chang­won­gun land survey project before full­scale research on land surveying. In particular, the author's goal was to clarify some of the characteristics of land survey projects in this period by analyzing changes of registries and project implementation processes, and common points and differences between ledgers before and after a survey project.