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We will prepare a license agreement with the details that you have provided in the application form. A PDF of this document will then be sent to the email address that you have registered with us.
Please mail the following documents to NINJAL.
※ Please provide a copy of your staff ID card, employee ID card, student ID card, or other identification that clearly shows the organization with which you are affiliated.
"Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese" public release section
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
10-2 Midori-cho, Tachikawa City, Tokyo 190-8561, Japan
NINJAL shall review the license agreement received from the applicant. If your application is approved, we will send you an invoice along with copies of the license agreement and application form (each dated and in a single copy).
Please make the payment using the invoice sent to you. We kindly request that the payment be made in advance via bank transfer.
Upon receipt and verification of the payment mentioned in (5), we will mail the following items to you: an original copy of the license agreement, a delivery slip, and the Paid edition of the data. If you require a receipt, kindly provide us with the name to be printed on the receipt ahead of time.
Upon subscribing to the Paid edition, you will concurrently be granted a Chunagon account. Your Chunagon account serves a dual purpose. Not only does it grant you access to the Chunagon search system, but it also enables you to download a variety of data and tools available with the Paid edition. This is made possible through authentication via your Chunagon account. This is an important account. Therefore, please follow the setup instructions provided in the package accompanying the items listed in (6).
You can change your password, update your email address, and edit your user information by logging in to Chunagon.
Those who have purchased 1st to 3rd edition(s) of the CSJ can receive a USB Flash Drive containing CSJ-RDB 2.0 and the CSJ package for Himawari free of charge. If you wish, please send the following information to kotonoha [at] ninjal.ac.jp (please convert the 'at'). Please make the subject line "CSJ differential data application"
----------------------------------------------- Your name: Affiliation: e-mail address: Destination address: Your CSJ edition: ----------------------------------------------- kotonoha [at] ninjal.ac.jp (please convert the 'at') Subject: CSJ differential data application
For inquiries please contact: kotonoha[at]ninjal.ac.jp (please convert the 'at')