Q:Information: - Japan ("Nippon" or "Nihon" ; formally "" or "Nihon-koku", means "State of Japan") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland (east of China, Korea, Russia) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest. - The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, consisting of the Kant region of Japan, including the Tokyo Metropolis, as well as the prefecture of Yamanashi. In Japanese, it is referred to by various terms, the most common of which being . - The GDP in Osaka is $671 billion as measured by PPP , making it one of the world's most-productive regions, a match with Paris and London. MasterCard Worldwide reported that Osaka is the 19th ranking city of the world's leading global cities and has an instrumental role in driving the global economy. If Keihanshin was a country, it would be the 16th-largest economy in the world, with a GDP of nearly $953.9 billion in 2012. - Historically a merchant city, Osaka has also been known as the and served as a center for the rice trade during the Edo period. - The or the lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honsh. The region includes the prefectures of Mie, Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hygo, and Shiga. While the use of the terms "Kansai" and "Kinki" have changed over history, in most modern contexts the use of the two terms is interchangeable. The urban region of Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto (Keihanshin region) is the second most populated in Japan after the Greater Tokyo Area. - The earliest written records regarding the region come from the "Nihon Shoki", which describes the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jing in AD 201. For most of its history, the area was never a single political entity, even during the Tokugawa Period, when the port was controlled directly by the Tokugawa Shogunate. Kobe did not exist in its current form until its founding in 1889. Its name comes from , an archaic title for supporters of the city's Ikuta Shrine. Kobe became one of Japan's 17 designated cities in 1956. - The is the only national library in Japan. It was established in 1948 for the purpose of assisting members of the in researching matters of public policy. The library is similar in purpose and scope to the United States Library of Congress. - A national library is a library specifically established by the government of a country to serve as the preeminent repository of information for that country. Unlike public libraries, these rarely allow citizens to borrow books. Often, they include numerous rare, valuable, or significant works. A National Library is that library which has the duty of collecting and preserving the literature of the nation within and outside the country, Thus, National Library are those libraries whose community is the nation at large. Examples include; The British Library, The Bibliotheque Nationale In Paris. - Tokyo, officially Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan and one of its 47 prefectures. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world. It is the seat of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese government. Tokyo is in the Kant region on the southeastern side of the main island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands. Formerly known as Edo, it has been the de facto seat of government since 1603 when Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu made the city his headquarters. It officially became the capital after Emperor Meiji moved his seat to the city from the old capital of Kyoto in 1868; at that time Edo was renamed Tokyo. Tokyo Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the merger of the former and the . - Kansai - kan of the National Diet Library ( Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan Kansai - kan ) is the facility of the National Diet Library , opened in October , 2002 . It is based at the Kansai Science City in Seika Town , Soraku District , Kyoto Prefecture . In 1978 , a first basic concept of Kansai - kan of the NDL was shown as the '' Second National Diet Library '' by local governments , academic societies and businesses in Kansai region . National Diet Library officially launched the Research Committee for the Kansai Project of the National Diet Library ( NDL ) in 1982 . And the second library was renamed as the Kansai - kan ( the present name ) in 1987 . - The Library of Congress ("LOC") is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the "de facto" national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. The Library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; it also maintains the Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia, which houses the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. - Name. In Japanese, the city has been called Ky, Miyako, or Ky no Miyako. In the 11th century, the city was renamed Kyoto ("capital city"), after the Chinese word for capital city, '. After the city of Edo was renamed Tokyo (meaning "Eastern Capital") in 1868, and the seat of the Emperor was transferred there, Kyoto was known for a short time as Saiky (meaning "Western Capital"). - A prefecture (from the Latin "Praefectura") is an administrative jurisdiction or subdivision in any of various countries and within some international church structures, and in antiquity a Roman district governed by an appointed prefect. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'kansai-kan of the national diet library' exhibits the relationship of 'instance of'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - area - capital of japan - church - city - coast - cultural institution - district - edo - government - headquarters - hill - history - information - institution - island - island nation - jurisdiction - korea - library - literature - merchant - metropolis - metropolitan - metropolitan area - name - national library - ocean - policy - port - prefecture - public policy - ranking - region - research - research library - role - sea - single - state - subdivision - the city - trade - united states congress
A:
national library