{"id":862,"date":"2026-04-08T18:10:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/?page_id=862"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:24:33","slug":"academic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/en\/case\/academic\/","title":{"rendered":"Local History Research \/ Academic Use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"div__lead\">\n<p>There is a growing effort across Japan to preserve the memory of towns and pass it on to future generations. These initiatives are not limited to famous landmarks and historic sites, but also extend to modern-era architecture and the broader urban landscape, reflecting the idea that an entire town can be understood as a museum.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_academic.jpg\" alt=\"Library\"><\/figure><p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Examples<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"div__grid_4-1\">\n<div>\n<h4>Yamagata Archive<\/h4>\n<p>Yamagata University<br>\n<i>Yamagata Archive<\/i> is a digital archive that brings together and makes publicly accessible the \u201cmemory\u201d of the town, including materials held by the Yamagata University Museum and other historical resource repositories in Yamagata Prefecture, as well as materials collected by students.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cherry.yum-archives.net\/yamagata-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/cherry.yum-archives.net\/yamagata-archive\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/map_yamagata.jpg\" alt=\"Historical Map - Yamagata\"><\/figure><div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"div__grid_4-1\">\n<div>\n<h4>Gunma Historical Materials Preservation Network (Plat Tamamura)<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gunma-siryonet00.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The <b>Gunma Historical Materials Preservation Network<\/b>\uff08<i>Gunma Shiryo Net<\/i>\uff09<\/a>is a non-profit volunteer organization engaged in the rescue and preservation of historical materials, including old documents, that are at risk of being lost due to natural disasters and other threats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s.maplat.jp\/r\/tamamuramap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plat Tamamura<\/a><br>\nBunsei 12 (1829), Keio 4 (1868), Meiji 1 (1868), and others<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/map_tamamura.jpg\" alt=\"Historical Map - Tamamura\"><\/figure><div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"div__grid_4-1\">\n<div>\n<h4>Yamato-Koriyama Domain Yanagisawa Family Territory Inventory Map (Kyoho 12)<\/h4>\n<p>Yamato-Koriyama Historical Society<br>This map was created by cross-referencing three sources:<br>\n<i>Territory Inventory, Kyoho 12<\/i> from the Yanagisawa Bunko collection, the <i>Former Village and Domain Database<\/i> of the National Museum of Japanese History, and <i>Agricultural Settlement Boundaries 2020<\/i> published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Based on these materials, it reconstructs the territories of the Yanagisawa family of the Koriyama Domain at the time of their transfer to Koriyama in Kyoho 9 (1724).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nstudio.jp\/kyouhou12nen_map.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Koriyama Domain Yanagisawa Family Territory Inventory Map (Kyoho 12)<\/a><br>\nKyoho 12<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/yanagisawa-ke_ryochi.png\" alt=\"Historical Map - Yamato-Koriyama\"><\/figure><div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maplat\u306e\u4e8b\u4f8b\u7d39\u4ecb\u3002\u3053\u306e\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u3067\u306f\u90f7\u571f\u53f2\u7814\u7a76\u3084\u5b66\u8853\u306e\u5206\u91ce\u3067\u63a1\u7528\u3055\u308c\u3066\u3044\u308b\u4e8b\u4f8b\u3092\u3054\u7d39\u4ecb\u3057\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239,"parent":847,"menu_order":33,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"http:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/?page_id=70","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-862","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/862\/revisions\/875"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maplat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}