The JDC specializes in Japanese public policy information, providing current source materials in fields such as economics, commerce and industry, law, politics, the environment, and social conditions, specializing in "grey literature" (unpublished and difficult-to-obtain government literature). At the JDC site users can view a quick guide to searching and requesting documents from the JDC...

The JPRI site, working in collaboration with the New Mexico US-Japan Center, has released all of its publications prior to 1997. Users now have access to full-text versions of working papers on a variety of Japanese topics.