Record Atlas
2 FamilySearch collections · 3 archives · 49 places · 709–1982

Japan

Where the records of Japan are, who holds them, and what it costs to look. 0 indexed records reachable through FamilySearch alone.

Where to start in Japan

Nothing here has been checked for what it costs to look. On top of that, 9 worldwide services reach Japan without a subscription.

3 more institutions are listed here and have never been checked — nobody has opened them, written to them, or found out what they hold. They are on the map as grey because that is what they are, and the honest reading of this page is 0 known-open, 3 unknown.

Write to Modern Japanese Political History Materials Room, National Archives of Japan, National Archives of Modern Architecture for what is not online. FamilySearch has 2 collections covering it, running 709–1982. No jurisdiction region covers Japan yet, so this atlas cannot say whose archive held this ground in a given year — and it will not guess.

49 places placed, 0 volumes walked. Not one of them has had its paper counted yet, so treat the shelf here as a list of somewhere to look rather than a list of what survives. Open Japan on the map, or tell us what is missing.

The archives

  • Modern Japanese Political History Materials Room unsurveyed Japan

    Modern Japanese Political History Materials Room — national archive of Japan. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical.

  • National Archives of Japan unsurveyed Japan

    National Archives of Japan — national archive of Japan. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical.

  • National Archives of Modern Architecture unsurveyed Japan

    National Archives of Modern Architecture — national archive of Japan. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical.

And 12 worldwide providers reach Japan too — the full list.

2 FamilySearch collections

Grouped by the ground each one covers, nationwide. A free account opens the images; some are restricted to a Family History Centre.

Japan — nationwide 2

1 more collections, contributed

A directory David assembled, sorted by what kind of record each one is. Read this differently from the rest of the page. The descriptions are his, not an archive's catalogue, and nobody here has opened the volumes behind them. Every link was tried on 2026-09-20 and answered; the ones that did not are not listed.

Church and parish registers 1

49 places, 0 volumes

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