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Japan's Imperial Library (帝国図書館) was one of the predecessor institutions of the National Diet Library.

History
The Imperial Library was established in 1872. Its first director was Tanaka Inagi (田中稲城). As of 31 March 1908, it held 244,483 books, of which 194,500 were Japanese and Chinese books.