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The National Diet Library is the product of post‐war Japan under the Occupation Policy. It was established in June 1948 with particular reference to the experience of the Congressional Library in the United States of America.

The Seminar for the International Exchange of Publications in the Indo‐Pacific Area, inspired by Unesco and sponsored by the National Diet Library of Japan, was held at Tokyo from 4 November to 11 November, 1957. There were no less than thirty‐two participants, delegates, and observers, from the following countries: Australia, Cambodia, Ceylon, Chile, the Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Laos, Malaya, Mexico, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the United States of Soviet Russia. Almost all the participating countries deputed librarians of standing to represent them. Among them were Mr. Foster E. Mohrhardt, Director of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Library, Mr. Jennings Wood, Assistant Chief Director, Exchange and Gifts Division of the Library of Congress, Mr. Boris Kanevsky, Chief Librarian, Dept. of International Exchange of Publications of the Lenin State Library, Dr. H. L. White, Librarian, Commonwealth National Library, Canberra, and Dr. Armando Sandoval, Director, Centro de Documentacion Cientifica y Technica de Mexico.

The free flow of information: Unesco's programme and methods. Unesco Chronicle, vol. 2, no. 3, March, 1956, pp. 80–85. [It is one of the aims written into the constitution of Unesco that it shall strive to promote the free flow of information, and it has used various methods to bring this about. It has itself sponsored international agreements such as the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials. Where full‐scale agreements are not possible it makes recommendations to members on desirable legislation, or sponsors administrative arrangements which do not have the binding force of agreements. It also works through its members to support suitable motions proposed by other bodies such as the International Telecommunications Union and the Universal Postal Union. It also publishes studies such as Trade barriers to knowledge which help to promote its plans. These methods have proved successful and it is proposed to continue them in the future.]