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National Diet Library

The National Diet Library (NDL) is the national library of Japan. It was established in 1948 with the National Diet Library Law, with Article 130 of the Diet Law, stating: "The National Diet Library shall be established in the Diet by a separate law, in order to assist Diet Members in their study and research." As of 2020, the NDL collections include over 45,500,000 acquisitions in total, including over 11,000,000 books and 710,000 annual acquisitions.
There are four basic roles of the NDL:

1. supporting the National Diet;
2. acquiring, cataloging, and preserving materials and information;
3. providing access to information resources; and
4. cooperation with affiliated institutions.

History

The National Diet Library initially absorbed three government libraries and two privately owned collections when it was established: The Imperial Diet Libraries, The Imperial Library, The Governmental Libraries, and the Toyo Bunko and Seikado Bunko, respectively. The National Diet Library closely resembles that of the Library of Congress in the United States which is due in part to the Japanese government sending Inagi Tanaka to study the American library methods and the Library of Congress in 1889.

Japan Library Association

The Japan Library Association (JLA) was founded in 1892 as a non-profit organization that represents the library profession within Japan. It was founded to help promote library services and librarianship within the country.
There are four basic policies that define the mission of the JLA:

1. to be the national information center for all libraries and librarians in Japan;
2. to be an education, training, and career development center for librarians;
3. to cooperate with, and coordinate all kinds of libraries and library organizations; and
4. to promote and support international relations activities with libraries and librarians around the world.