Research on old Japanese books in possession of National Library of Medicine and others : making of catalogs and database

首先，本研究的目的是调查北美的旧医学书籍，为它们的广泛和实际用途进行分类。经过三年的研究，我们出版了《旧书目录》。《美国日本旧医学书籍目录与研究》。其次，我们继续对上述未列出的日本旧医学书籍进行研究，以找出它们被引入北美的原因和细节。主要是通过对哥伦比亚大学前图书馆员的采访，我们了解到国会图书馆和一些主要的大学图书馆是如何接受战后占领期间从日本征用的书籍的。我们附上了报告。第三，附上过去三年的研究总结，以及我们从研究中获得的联系地址，以备将来使用。

First of all the purpose of the research is to investigate the old medical books in North America to catalog them for wide and practical uses. As a result of our three year research, we published a catalog of old books A catalog and study of old Japanese medical books in U.S.A.Secondly we continued our research on old Japanese medical books not listed in the above to find out reasons and details why and how they were introduced into North America. Mainly through interviews with the former librarian of Columbia University we learned how the Congress Library and some major university libraries came to accept the books requisitioned from Japan during the occupation after the war. We attached the report on it.Thirdly the summary of research for the past three years is attached, as well as the contact addresses we have obtained from our research for future use.