Great News from the NBTHK Japan

[Rayhan]

Dear All

 

I hope this finds everyone doing well? 48 hours ago I was greeted with the wondaful news that the NBTHK Japan has given us permission to share the English Versions of the NBTHK magazines from series #1 to #58 (ONLY) here on the NMB for educational purposes.

 

Conditions are:

 

- The Magazines cannot be sold to the public or board members. They must remain as free educational material. No profiting under any circumstances. 

- There must be a stable record of how many members are downloading the magazines (we already track the download numbers)

- These are for the English magazines from the late 1970's and only numbers 1 - 58.

- The NBTHK Japan must be acknowledged as the original publishers. 

 

This has been weeks in the making with 2 close contacts in Japan lobbying on our behalf and they really have come through for us so I have a lot of making up to do for them when I am next in Japan. 

 

I shall send everything to @Brian and allow him to upload them when he has time. Thank you for your patience everyone and I hope that the materials will help your education and collecting journey as much as it has helped so many in the past.

 

 

[Nickupero]

That is Great news indeed Rayhan, thank you for your involved efforts and to the two individuals that lobbied. Looking forward to it!

[Rivkin]

Wow! Thank you very much!

[nulldevice]

@Rayhan Thanks so much for lobbying for this as well as your close contacts! This is wonderful news and I’m glad the NBTHK is allowing for the dissemination of more translated sword knowledge for free. I look forward to reading these magazines. 

[Brian]

Yip...awesome work by Rayhan, and a huge thanks to the NBTHK for allowing this. I will be uploading them into a special section in the Downloads section over the weekend, and it will likely take some time to get through all of them. Really excited about this. There will be a disclaimer to agree to when you download, to prevent commercial use etc.
The downloads section is for members only, so hopefully this will also encourage some of the lurkers to sign up. Only requires a free membership, no subscription needed. Info like this is invaluable to collecting, and I am grateful to be able to facilitate this. Thanks again to the NBTHK, Rayhan and those that worked to make it happen.

[Richard Thomas]

Truly great news Rayhan, thanks for all the hard work, really appreciated. Look forwards to reading them 

cheers Rich

[Hoshi]

Fantastic Rayhan, thank you for your efforts. 

[Rawa]

Great idea. I was thinking about scanning 50+ years old books and scharing on forum. Mr Brian this is worthy separate tab.

[Jacques]

Nice, this will save me from having to rummage through the jumble of magazines I have in stock.

[paul tsubadotinfo]

That's amazing! Thank you for the good news. 

Just when I thought I would finally send all the magazines to destructive book scanning services. I am happy to preserve them now. 

[george trotter]

Great news...It is so long since I read any of those publications I can't remember any specific topic...maybe (I doubt it - but I can hope) there may be one or two on WWII era gendaito?

Well done all...much appreciated.

[O koumori]

Great news! Thanks for your efforts Rayhan!

[Kantaro]

Excellent news!  Thanks!

[Gakusee]

Well done, Ray! The community must be very grateful for your efforts and the help of your associates. That is an incredible achievement. 
They are each between 40-60MB, so people need to provision the requisite space on their devices. 

[Curran]

@Rayhan             Wow...

Heck of a resource. That is truly incredible.

Thank you 1000x

[Infinite_Wisdumb]

I suggest that the NBTHK judges come here to read them as well

[b.hennick]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Your work and generosity are both excellent. 

[Okan]

Amazing!  @Rayhan Thank you so much!!

 

[Robert S]

Well done!  These will be fascinating reading.

[Lewis B]

@Brian 

I was trying to download these interesting publications but after several downloads I got the message:

•  Sorry, you aren't permitted to download this file.

Do you know why? 

[Brian]

@Lewis B, to prevent hammering the server and costly bandwidth charges, the following limits are in place:
Regular members - 10 downloads a day, 25 per week
Gold Membership - 20 downloads a day, 50 per week.

Max of 2 simultaneous downloads at the same time.

If you had downloaded some without issue, this may be the cause? If not, drop me a message and I'll look into it.
Sorry to have to put restrictions on downloads, but at this stage can't afford to pay any more for hosting, and even uploading these and editing every single title screenshot and details is killing me
I think I've managed 30 uploads so far. Rest will likely be on Monday.

[Lewis B]

@Brian

Thanks, thats it. Hit 10 downloads limit.

[Lukrez]

Thank you sincerely for your dedication and effort. Your selfless contribution is truly enriching, and we deeply appreciate the value you bring to us. 

Would it be possible to download all the files together, for instance as a ZIP file ?

[Brian]

Afraid one of the requirements of the NBTHK permission was no bulk downloads, so this is the best compromise.

[Lareon]

Here to add my thanks too. A great resource and a benefit to us all.

 

Thank you to all involved 

[Jussi Ekholm]

Wonderful Rayhan and your contribution to the community is amazing! Huge thanks for NBTHK for allowing the old magazines to be shared.

 

I think the English magazine ran for c. 15 years so within these magazines you will find many of the best Japanese swords as feature items.

[PNSSHOGUN]

Adding a gold membership to download multiple issues quickly, and support the forum, is a small price to pay.

[Brian]

Thank you John. Agree. Could have easily set these to be available to Gold members only, as a perk. It was tempting, as we don't have many fundraising events, but decided that Rayhan's efforts and the NBTHK generosity deserved them being shared with everyone. But a membership is a tiny amount considering the wealth of info in the downloads section. No just these, but take a browse through our free library there, there is an incredible amount of info over the past 18+ years.

[Lareon]

I agree. The forum is invaluable and a repository of knowledge and expertise found nowhere else

[Brian]

Can you believe we are coming up to 20 years old?
I'm amazed myself. Can't believe myself and some of you guys have made it almost 20 years. Almost unheard of when it comes to internet forums.