Hoover Institution, Stanford University

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Title: Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Contents: The Hoover Institution, wholly-owned by Stanford University in the United States, operates a think tank and a library and archives on campus. In 1919, the future president Herbert Hoover created the Hoover Institution Library & Archives to document the causes and consequences of political conflict with the ultimate goal of promoting peace. It operated an office in Tokyo in 1945-1952 and has safeguarded documents that captured political, economic, and social changes during and after WWII.Today, the Library & Archives boasts nearly one million volumes and more than six thousand archival collections—in sixty-nine languages from more than one hundred fifty countries—and growing digital collections. It serves scholars and students both at Stanford and abroad. Funded by an anonymous gift, the Japanese Diaspora Initiative has begun by focusing on Japan’s modern diaspora, with particular attention to overseas Japanese communities, especially during the rise and fall of the Empire of Japan. Central to this mission is to digitize and make open access overseas Japanese newspapers, which face preservation risks, emphasizing the importance of primary source materials in the historical studies of Japanese and overseas Japanese.