National Diet Library

The national library of Japan, founded in 1948, and a major stakeholder in the production of accessible Japanese digital content. NDL operates large-scale digitisation projects for historical and contemporary Japanese materials, partners with blind-readers' organisations and research labs on accessible-ebook production, and serves as a legal-deposit institution that can apply copyright exceptions for accessible-format production. NDL has collaborated on crowdsourced OCR correction, automated structural-metadata creation, and DAISY-format book generation projects. It is the Japanese counterpart to the US Library of Congress or the British Library and is frequently cited in research on Asian-language accessibility.