UCC reaches 'rare' agreement with one of world’s largest libraries in Japan

Under the agreement scholars and students will be able to access “extensive” Japanese archives, research dissertations, and millions of books and articles

Archives on the Japanses artist Hokusai who created The Great Wave off Kanagawa are among the 46 millions archives in the National Diert Library Picture: UCC

University College Cork (UCC) has become the first university in Ireland and the UK to gain “rare” access to one of the world’s largest libraries in Japan.

The move will make UCC the third university in Europe to gain access to Japan’s National Diet Library, which is the seventh-largest library in the world, containing over 46 million catalogued items.