April 1, 1999 revised.
For materials written in Chinese or Cyrillic, character "X" or "V" is added to the beginning of the classification symbol listed below. (cf. VBba, XKc)
A | Generalities |
B | Economics |
C | Public finance |
D | Enterprise, Management, Commerce |
E | Accounting |
F | Financial economics, Insurance |
G | Transportation,Communications |
H | Agriculture, Animal husbandry, Fishery, Forestry |
I | Mining, Industry |
K | Sociology, Social problems |
L | Statistics |
M | Law |
N | Political science |
O | Population |
P | Philosophy, Religion, Education, Literature, Arts |
Q | History |
R | Geography, Travel |
S | Natural sciences |
Aa | General Bibliographies, Catalogs |
Ab | Dictionaries |
Ac | General encyclopedias |
Ad | General yearbooks |
Ae | General serial publications |
Af | Knowledge, General collections |
Ag | Libraries, Library science, Books, Bibliography |
Ah | Directories of persons and organizations |
Ai | General organizations, Museology |
[Ak | Photographs, Postcard] abolished in April 1999 |
(AMD | CD-ROM) |
(AMF | Microfilms) |
(AMS | Microfiches) |
[Ax | Rare books] abolished in April 1999 |
(Az | Publications by Hitotsubashi University) |
(Aza | Publications by IER) |
(Azb | Survey reports by IER or its predecessor institutions) |
Ba | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
Bb | Economics |
Bba | Philosophy of economics |
Bbb | Production |
Bbc | Prices, Value |
Bbd | Distribution of Income and wealth, National products, Consumption, Savings |
Bbf | Capital |
Bbg | Economic fluctuations, Business cycles, Depression |
Bbh | Resources, Economics of land and energy |
Bbq | History of economics as a discipline |
Bn | Economic policy |
Bna | International economics, International development and growth |
[Bnb | Japanese economics] abolished in April 1999 |
Bnc | Planned economies |
Bnd | Wartime economies |
Bne | Chamber of commerce and industry, Economic organizations |
[Bq | Economic history] abolished in April 1999 |
[Bqa | Economic history of the Western world] abolished in April 1999 |
[Bqb | Economic history of the Eastern world] abolished in April 1999 |
[Bqc | Economic history of Japan] abolished in April 1999 |
[Bqg | Material of economic history] abolished in April 1999 |
Br | Economic situation and conditions, Economic history (Geographic division) |
Ca | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
Cb | Public finance |
Cba | Budget and settlements |
Cbb | Taxes and Taxation |
Cbc | Public monopolies,National property |
Cbd | Public borrowing, debts |
Cd | Public finance at local level |
[Cq | History of public finance] abolished in April 1999 |
Cr | Geographic, historical treatment of public finance (Geographic division) |
Da | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
Db | Managerial economics, Theory of business administration |
Dba | Business management |
Dc | Structure and organization of enterprises |
Dca | Private enterprise |
Dcb | Public enterprise |
Dcc | Public utilities |
Dcd | Cooperatives |
Dce | Combinations |
Dcf | Small business |
Dd | Structure of distribution |
Dda | Markets |
Ddb | Exchanges |
Ddc | Warehousing |
[Ddd | Granting Agency for commerce] abolished in April 1999 |
De | Advertising and public relations |
Df | Commodities |
Dg | Mercantile business, Internal commerce (Domestic trade) |
Dh | International commerce (Foreign trade) |
Di | Service industries |
Dn | Commercial policy |
Do | Company records |
Dr | Geographic, historical treatment of business administration and commerce (Geographic division) |
Ea | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
Eb | Accounting |
Eg | Cost accounting |
Ek | Financial reports of specific companies |
Fa | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
Fb | Financial economics |
Fba | Monetary policies |
Fbb | Interest |
Fc | Banks |
Fca | Commercial banks |
Fcb | Specialized banks in law |
Fcc | Central banks |
Fcd | Specialized banking institutions, Credit and loan institutions |
Fd | International finance |
Fe | Invest and Investments |
Ff | Money |
[Ffa | Monetary theory] abolished in April 1999 |
Ffb | Monetary policy, Monetary system |
Fg | Credit |
Fh | Value of money |
Fk | Insurance |
Fka | Life insurance |
Fkb | Fire insurance |
Fkc | Marine insurance |
Fkd | Credit insurance |
[Fke | Social insurance] abolished in April 1999 |
Fkf | Other insurance |
Fr | Geographic, historical treatment of finance, banks, money (Geographic division) |
Ga | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
Gb | Transportation |
Gc | Ground transportation,Vehicular transportation,Railroad transportation |
Gd | Ocean (Marine) transportation |
Ge | Inland waterway and ferry transportation |
Gf | Air transportation |
Gg | Communications |
Gh | Tourist trade |
[Gm | Other transportation] abolished in April 1999 |
Gr | Geographic, historical treatment of transportation (Geographic division) |
Ha | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
Hb | Agricultural economics |
Hba | Agricultural productivity |
Hbb | Markets |
Hbc | Prices of products |
Hbd | Economic fluctuations |
[Hbe | Agricultural mechanization] abolished in April 1999 |
Hbf | Agricultural credit |
Hbg | Agricultural cooperatives |
Hc | Basic sciences on agriculture, Agricultural engineering, Mechanization, Methods of cultivation, Crop science |
Hd | Farming |
Hda | Size of farm |
[Hdb | Agricultural mechanization] abolished in April 1999 |
Hdc | Agricultural labor |
Hdd | Part-time farmer |
[Hdm | Other problems of farming] abolished in April 1999 |
[He | Rural industry] abolished in April 1999 |
Hf | Rural and peasant problems |
Hg | Food supply |
Hh | Government farm policies |
Hk | Products, Plant crops |
Hka | Rice |
Hkb | Wheat, Oates, Rye, Barley |
Hkc | Other plant crops |
Hkd | Industrial crops |
Hke | Garden crops (Fruits, Vegitables, Flowers) |
Hkf | Tropical fruits |
Hp | Silkworms |
Hr | Geographic, historical treatment of agriculture and horticulture (Geographic division) |
Hx | Animal husbandry |
Hy | Fishery |
Hya | Salt manufacture |
Hz | Forestry |
Ia | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
Ib | Economics of mining, industry, Government policies for mining, industry |
Ic | Basic engineering, History of technology |
[Id | Mining and industrial problems] abolished in April 1999 |
Ie | Mining |
Iea | Iron |
Ieb | Nonferrous metals |
Iec | Precious metals |
Ied | Coal |
Iee | Oil, Natural gas |
Ief | Other materials |
If | Metallurgy, Alloys |
Ifa | Ferrous metals |
Ifb | Nonferrous metals, Precious metals |
Ifc | Metalworking |
Ifd | Metal products |
[Ife | Others] abolished |
Ig | Mechine engineering industry |
Iga | Heat engines, Hydraulic and pneumatic machinery |
Igb | Machine-shop practice, Machine tools |
[Igc | Industrial machine] abolished in April 1999 |
Igd | Automobile, Aircraft, Shipbuilding |
Ige | Precision, optical instruments, Weapons |
[Igf | Instrumentation] abolished in April 1999 |
[Igg | Others] abolished in April 1999 |
Ih | Chemical industries |
Iha | Industrial chemicals |
Ihb | Dyes and pigments |
Ihc | Oils and fats |
Ihd | Polymers, Plastics, Cellulose |
Ihe | Fertilizers |
Ihf | Explosives, fuels, related products |
Ihg | Pulp and paper |
Ihk | Ceramic industry |
Ihm | Other chemical industries |
Ik | Textile industry |
Ika | Silk |
Ikb | Cotton |
Ikc | Sheep wool |
Ikd | Hemp |
Ike | Textiles of man-made fibers |
Ikf | Other textile industries |
Im | Food industry |
Ima | Grains, other seeds, their derived products |
Imb | Sugars, syrups, their derived products |
Imc | Alchoholic beverages |
Imd | Preservation |
Ime | Products of tobacco |
Imf | Other food industries |
In | Other industries |
Io | Electrical machinery |
Ip | Construction industry |
Ir | Geographic, historical treatment of mining, industry(Geographic division) |
Is | Nuclear energy industry |
Ka | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
Kb | Sociology |
Kbb | Customs, Folklore, Ethnology, Culutural anthropology |
Kc | Social problems and services |
[Kd | Social service, welfare facility] abolished in April 1999 |
Ke | Labor economics, Labor problems |
Kea | Labor unions (Trade unions), Labor movements |
[Keb | Occupational problems] abolished in April 1999 |
Kf | Living and consumer's problem, Domestic arts and sciences, Home economics and family living |
Kg | Environmental problems |
Kh | Public health |
Ki | Housing |
Kj | Racial, ethnic groups |
Kk | Family, Men and women, Age groups |
Kl | Social thought |
Km | Socialism, Communism |
Kn | Syndicalism, Anarchism |
Ko | Fascism, National socialism |
Kp | Social reform movements |
Kr | Geographic treatment of society (Geographic division) |
La | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
Lb | Statistics |
Lc | General statistics (Geographic division) |
Ld | Population (Geographic division) |
Le | Economic statistics (Geographic division) |
Lea | Industries (Geographic division) |
Leb | Foreign trade (Geographic division) |
Lec | Finance (Geographic division) |
Led | Prices (Geographic division) |
Lem | Other economic statistics (Geographic division) |
Lf | Social statistics (Geographic division) |
Lfa | Labor (Geographic division) |
Lfm | Education, Other social statistics (Geographic division) |
Lg | Weights and measures |
Ma | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
Mb | Laws (Statutes), regulations |
Mc | Cases |
Md | Jurisprudence |
Me | Legal history |
Mf | Constitutional and administrative law, Public law |
[Mfa | Administrative law] abolished in April 1999 |
Mfb | Criminal Law |
Mfc | Procedure, Courts |
Mg | International law |
Mh | Private law, Civil law |
Mi | Commercial law |
Mk | Labor law, Social service law |
Ml | Regulation of economic activity |
Na | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
Nb | Political science, Political ideologies |
Nba | Systems of governmets and states |
Nbb | Legislative bodies, Political parties |
Nbc | Public administration, Local governments, Local administration |
[Nbd | Judicial system] abolished in April 1999 |
Nd | International relations |
Ng | Military science |
Nr | Political situation and conditions, Political history (Geographic division) |
Oa | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
[Ob | Anthropology, ethnology] abolished in April 1999 |
[Oc | Race and ethnic relations] abolished in April 1999 |
Od | Demography, Population problems |
Of | Migration |
Ofa | Overseas Chinese |
[Og | Customs, folklore] abolished in April 1999 |
Or | Situation, conditions, history of popuration, migration (Geographic division) |
Pa | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
Pb | Philosophy, Psychology, Ethics |
[Pbq | History of philosophy] abolished in April 1999 |
Pc | Religion |
Pd< | Education |
Pe | Literature |
Pf | Arts |
Pg | Language |
Qa | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
Qb | Phylosophy and theory of history |
Qc | Biography |
[Qd | World history and history of the Western world] abolished in April 1999 |
[Qe | History of the Eastern world] abolished in April 1999 |
[Qey | Classical Chinese literature] abolished in April 1999 |
Qf | History of Japan |
Qfa | Early history to 1192 |
Qfb | Kamakura period to Momoyama period, 1192-1600 |
Qfc | Tokugawa (Edo) period, 1600-1868 |
Qfd | Restooration, 1868-1872 |
Qfe | Meiji period to present, 1868- |
Qff | History of specific regions in Japan |
Archeology] abolished in April 1999 | |
Qr | World history, History of specific countries, areas (Geographic division) |
Ra | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
Rb | Philosophy and theory of geography and travel |
Rbb | Economic geography |
Rbc | Geopolitics |
Rc | Geography, Travel (Geographic division) |
Rd | Atlases, Maps, Charts, Plans |
Sa | Series, Collected works, Collections, Reference books (General bibliographies, Catalogs, Dictionaries) |
Sb | Mathematics |
Sc | Natural science |
Sd | Physics,Chemistry |
Se | Information engineering |
Sf | Astronomy,Earth sciences, Life sciences |
Sg | Medical sciences, Pharmacology |
0 | Generality, Each countries, areas in the world |
1 | Asia, Orient, Far East |
2 | Japan |
3 | China |
4 | Other parts of East Asia |
5 | Southeast Asia, Oceania |
6 | South Asia, Middle East |
7 | Europe |
8 | Africa |
9 | America, Arctic islands and Antarctica |
10 | Asia, Orient, Far East |
20 | Japan |
21 | Kanto region |
22 | Tohoku region |
23 | Hokuriku region, Chubu region |
24 | Kinki region |
25 | Chugoku region |
26 | Shikoku region |
27 | Kyusyu region |
28 | Hokkaido |
29 | Okinawa prefecture |
30 | China |
31 | China (People's Republic of China) contain Xinjiang, Tibet |
32 | North-Eastern Region (Former Manchuria) |
33 | Outer Mongolia (Mongolian People's Republic) |
[34 | Remote region] abolished |
35 | Taiwan |
36 | Hong Kong, Macao, Hainan Province |
[39 | External relations] abolished |
41 | Kamchatka |
42 | Siberia |
43 | Sakhalin provinces, Kuril Islands |
44 | Korea |
[46 | Ryukyu Islands] abolished |
50 | Southeast Asia, Oceania |
51 | Philippines |
52 | Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos (Indochina) |
53 | Thailand (Former Siam) |
54 | Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Northern Kalimantan (Northern Borneo) |
55 | Indonesia, Kalimantan (Borneo) |
56 | Australia, New Zealand |
57 |
Other parts of Pacific Ocean, New Guinea contain Hawaii |
58 | Micronesia |
60 | South Asia, Middle East |
61 | India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives |
62 | Myanmar (Burma) |
63 | Afghanistan |
64 | Iran, Iraq |
65 | Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel |
66 | Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Bahrain) |
67 | Turkey, Cyprus |
68 | Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan |
70 | Europe |
71 | Great Britain, Ireland |
72 | France, Monaco |
73 | Germany, Austria, Switzerland |
74 | Italy |
75 | Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg |
76 | Spain, Portugal, Andorra |
77 | Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria,Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Albania, Greece |
78 | Russia, European Russia, CIS |
79 | Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland |
80 | Africa |
81 | Northern Africa (Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Canary Islands) |
82 | Northeastern Africa (Sudan, Ethiopia,Somalia) |
83 | Eastern Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi) |
84 | Western Africa (Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Burkina Faso (Former Upper Volta), Benin (Former Dahomey), Togo, Cote d'Ivoire, Gana, Nigeria, Niger, Guinea Bissau) |
85 | West-central Africa (Cameroon,Sao Tome and Principe, Chad, Republic of the Congo (Former French Congo), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Former Zaire, Belgian Congo),Central African Republic, Gabon, Angola, Equatorial Guinea) |
86 | Southeastern Africa (Zimbabwe (Former Southern Rhodesia), Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique) |
87 | Southern Africa (Republic of South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana) |
89 | South Indian Ocean islands (Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Comoro Islands) |
90 | America | |
91 | United States | |
92 | Canada | |
93 | Mexico | |
94 | Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, West Indies (Antilles), Bermuda, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Guiana | |
95 | Brazil | |
96 | Argentina | |
97 | Chile | |
98 | Bolivia, Paraguay, Urguay | |
99 | Arctic islands and Antarctica |