The International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) is devoted to interdisciplinary and comprehensive research on Japanese culture from an international perspective, it is an inter-university research institute supported by government funds.
NIJL is both itself a comprehensive research institution, and also functions as a foundation for the broader promotion of advanced collaborative research into Japanese literature.
The National Museum of Japanese History, known popularly in Japanese as Rekihaku, is a general museum of Japanese history that houses and displays some 200,000 artifacts of historical importance and cultural value that together help to tell the story of Japan's past.
Toyo Bunko (The Oriental Library) is a library and research institute dedicated to the study of Asian history and culture.
It is the largest Asian Studies Center in the region and one of the five largest in the world.