Reference Room of Kobe Gakuin University, School of Law, provides the index of law reviews. However, the articles contained in commercial magazines are not included in this index. For social and labor law, Ohara Institute , Housei University provides a database for articles. At the site of Prof. Nishitani, Hiroshima University, there is a database of Japanese articles concerning International Law. Unfortunately, in Japan, there is no site for legal news.
Some news sites distribute legal news stories.
In spite of strong developments the computer industry and digitalization in government offices, in Japan we cannot see the success in the service of legal information in the Internet. Most universities and colleges are now connected to the Internet. Most libraries distribute the library catalogue as a computer database, not by index card. Many teaching staff are using e-mail everyday and getting a lot of information for their academic life through the web. However, their professional articles are published only as hard copy and seldom on the net.