The Art Research Center (ARC) at Ritsumeikan University is a leading force in digital archiving, specializing in Japanese cultural heritage. Known for its expertise in digitization, ARC makes a vast number of images and objects―including over 700,000 paintings and ukiyo-e prints and nearly 400,000 Edo period books―globally accessible through its online databases. This is made possible through collaborations with tens of institutions around the world, including the British Museum, the Wereldmuseum Leiden (National Museum of Ethnology), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and University of California, Berkeley, to name but a few.