Our Initiatives for Raising Archival Awareness Case of

Our Initiatives for Raising Archival Awareness: Case of Japanese Business Archives and Archivists 　 Yuko Matsuzaki Business Archives Specialist Resource Center for the History of Entrepreneurship Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation http: //www. shibusawa. or. jp/english/index. html

Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation Shibusawa Memorial Museum, Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation

3 Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation Rongo to Soroban (the Analects and Abacus) 　 　　　　 = the compatibility of ethics and commercial profit ⇒ Corporate social responsibility ⇒ “No archives, no accountability”

Directory of Business Archives in Japan on the Web • Public release: July 22, 2008 • A list of 23 in-house business archives, and 7 repositories http: //www. shibusawa. or. jp/center/dir/index. html

Directory of Business Archives in Japan on the Web Including. . . Bank of Japan Archives Canon Archives Kao Museum and Corporate Archives Matsushita (Panasonic) Archives Toyota Archives http: //www. shibusawa. or. jp/center/dir/index. html

Directory of Business Archives in Japan on the Web http: //www. shibusawa. or. jp/center/dir/open/cp 12. html

Email newsletter, Business Archives Newsletter • Content ▫ Information on literature of business archives ▫ Information on international archival events • Current number of subscription: 200 http: //www. shibusawa. or. jp/center/ba/index. html

Email newsletter, Business Archives Newsletter • Examples in the past coverage ▫ Business Archives: Principles and Practice, Nos. 93 & 95 ▫ Ethics and the Archival Profession by K. Benedict ▫ American Archivist cover controversy ▫ Information on SAA annual meeting ▫ Information on ASA annual conference ▫ Tata Central Archives (TCA), India http: //www. shibusawa. or. jp/center/ba/bn/index. html

A derivative project: introducing entire articles • Example ▫ Elizabeth W. Adkins, “Local History versus Corporate History: Responsible Archival Management of International Subsidiaries of Multinational Corporations, ” the Business Archives in International Comparison: Report to the International Council on Archives (ICA) Congress 2004) http: //www. shibusawa. or. jp/center/ba/bunken/doc 001_adkins. html

Some basic numbers of Japanese archives and archivists The current membership of the Business Archives Association 88 The total number of full-time staff of the National Archives as of 2007 42 The number of local public 52 (prefectural and municipal) archives The estimated number of (self-reported) archivists in local public (prefectural and municipal) archives No more than 250 The estimated number of (self-reported) archivists with Master’s degree in various subjects No more than 200