Yomidasu Rekishikan is an online database of 11 million articles covering every issue of The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper since its first issue in 1874. The database has four parts:
- The Meiji, Taisho and Showa Eras section contains high-quality scans of the articles as they appeared in the original print editions.
- The Heisei Era section presents articles in a convenient text view.
- The Japan News section catalogues articles which have appeared in the English publication.
- The Contemporary Who's Who allows searching by individuals to retrieve biographical information as well as articles which pertain to them. Articles are keyword indexed and can be searched full-text from 1986 to present.