International Organizations

This page provides useful links and publications to search for information of international organizations.
For more details, please also refer to Research Navi.

• United Nations (UN)
• League of Nations (LN)
• European Union (EU)
• International Court of Justice (ICJ)
• International Labour Organization (ILO)
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• World Bank Group
• World Trade Organization (WTO)/ General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
• International Maritime Organization (IMO)
• Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

United Nations (UN)

Please also refer to “United Nations“.

League of Nations (LN)

More Information (League of Nations)

European Union (EU)

Name・Link	Description	Note
European Union	The official website of the EU.	–
Delegation of the European Union to Japan	The official website of the Delegation of the European Union to Japan.	–
EUR-Lex	With this website, you can search for and access official documents of EU (such as EU law).	–
News and events	The latest information on the EU are exposed. The articles of “Bulletin of the European Union” are archived in here.	–

International Court of Justice (ICJ)

Name・Link	Description	Note
International Court of Justice	The ICJ’s official website.	–
Annual Reports	The annual reports have information of ICJ from August to July.	–
Yearbook[printed]	The yearbooks record about ICJ’s organization and financial status. The full-text of the latest yearbook can be downloaded from “Publications“.	–
Reports of judgments, advisory opinions and orders[printed]	These reports record judgements,advisory opinions and orders by year.	–
Pleadings, oral arguments, documents[printed]	Pleadings, oral arguments, documents are recorded by year.	–
Publications of the Permanent Court of International Justice[printed]	The list of publications of the PCIJ.	–

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Name・Link	Description	Note
ILO : International Labour Organization	The official website of the ILO. There are latest information, and links to labor statistics and other databases. in this website.	–
Japan (ILO)	The official website of the ILO Office for Japan.	–
NORMLEX	The general database of the ILO. You can search for treaties, recommendations and so on.	–
ILOSTAT	Labor statistics are exposed on the Web.	–
World of Work magazine[printed]	A PR magazine published by the ILO.	–
International labour review[eJournal][printed]	An academic journal published by the ILO.	–

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Name・Link	Description	Note
FAO : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	The official website of the FAO. You can check statistics and outline of countries in this website.	–
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Liaison Office in Japan[JPN]	The official website of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Liaison Office in Japan	–
FAO Knowledge Repository BETA	The repository managed by the FAO.	–
David Lubin Memorial Library	A discovery service in the field in which FAO is involved.	–
FAOSTAT	With “FAOSTAT”, you can search for various statistics of food, agriculture, forestry and fishery.	–
FAO Statistical Yearbooks	There is a link to a page where you can view the full text. A full-text of the yearbook published from 2004 can be downloaded.	–

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Name・Link	Description	Note
International Monetary Fund	The official website of the IMF.	–
International Monetary Fund[JPN]	The official website of the IMF in Japanese.	–
IMF eLibrary	You can search for various IMF publications such as periodicals, books and working papers.	–
Annual Report of the Executive Board	An annual report exposed on the Web.	–
World Economic Outlook	Reoprts on global economic developments during the near and medium term exposed on the Web.	–
IMF Data	“IMF Data” provides various kinds of data and statistics.	–
IMF Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics	A database for balance of payments and international investment position statistics.	–
IMF Direction of Trade Statistics	A database for trade statistics.	–
IMF Government Finance Statistics	A database for government finance statistics.	–
IMF International Financial Statistics	A database for international financial statistics.	–
IMF Economic Review[eJournal][printed]	An academic journal published by the IMF. You can browse all issues as e-journal in Kobe University.	–
Annual report on exchange arrangements and exchange restrictions (AREAER)[printed]	An annual report about exchange arrangements and exchange restrictions.	–

World Bank Group

Name・Link	Description	Note
World Bank Group	The official website of the World Bank Group. This website provides outline of the organization and statistics by country / field.	–
The World Bank In Japan	The official website of the World Bank Tokyo Office.	–
Research and Publications	With this database, you can search for publications of the World Bank Group. Full-texts of Some of them can be browsed on this website.	–
Open Knowledge Repository	You can search for research results of the World Bank Group.	–
Annual Report	An annual reports published by the IBRD (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) and the IDA (International Development Association).	–
WDR Reports[printed]	The annual report about the world development.	–

World Trade Organization (WTO) /
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

Name・Link	Description	Note
World Trade Organization	The official website of the WTO. This website provides latest news and event, moreover you can also check various kinds of data from “Documents, data and resources”.	–
WTO Documents Online	You can browse documents published by the GATT / WTO online.	–
Dispute settlement	You can search for cases of dispute resolution on this webpage. This webpage is useful to search for reports of panels and appellate bodies.	–
WTO Annual Report	The annual report of the WTO. This report provides outline of the WTO’s activities.	–

International Maritime Organization (IMO)

Name・Link	Description	Note
IMO : International Maritime Organization	The official website of the IMO. You can access the following tools from this website.	–
Publications	You can browse IMO’s publication catalogs and code lists on this web page.	–
Media Centre	You can browse press releases, reports of assemblies / commmittees, etc.	–
Circulars	Some of circulars are exposed. You need to register an account.	–
Conventions	A list of treaties and status of ratification of treaties are available.	–
IMO news[printed]	The IMO’s PR magazine. You can access digitized back numbers via here.	–

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Name・Link	Description	Note
BIS	The official website of the BIS. This page provides latest information, research results, statistics , etc.	–
Research & publictions	Reports and other publications are provided.	–
Statistics	Various statistics are provided.	–
Annual report[printed]	Annual reports of the BIS.	–

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Name・Link	Description	Note
OECD	The official website of the OECD. Such as data of each country are provided.	–
OECD iLibrary	“The OECD iLibrary” is an online service for publications of the OECD. This website provides not only OECD publications but also publications of the IEA (International Energy Agency), NEA (Nuclear Energy Agency), and the ITF (International Transport Forum), etc. as PDF format or HTML format.	–