Yomiuri Database
Search Instructions

[ Perform Search ]

Click on any of the following sections for today's news from that section. (Some sections may not contain news for a given date.)

Crime-Accident
Culture
Economy
Entertainment
General
Imperial Family
International
Lifestyle
Politics
Science
Society
Sports
Travel

To search other dates, press the Search button and enter the date in "Ayyyymmdd" format (e.g., a19970723).

To search other sections for other dates, press the Search button and enter the date as above and the section as shown in bold above, preceded by a "C" (e.g., a19970628 csports).

Note on Using the Search Service

To perform a Search, just enter your words and/or categories in the search box and press the search button. Use the scroll bar or similar function to view the resulting list of articles. To read an article, just click on the title.

Articles are ranked in decreasing relevance to the search query. A rank of 1000 means that all the terms searched are contained in the listed article. For better results, it is suggested to include as many words as you find relevant when searching by natural-languate words. On the other hand, a single category (section) name will be sufficient to retrieve all the articles pertaining to that category.

For power searching, you may use the copy-and-paste function of your computer to search for related articles. For example, if you have retrieved an article that matches your interest particularly well -- or if you have another related document on your computer, you may copy a portion or the entirety of that text into the search box to retrieve all the articles in the Yomiuri database that are most related to it.