Overview#
The “Pre-modern Japan-Asia Relations Digital Archive” was released on July 25, 2025.
https://asia-da.lit.kyushu-u.ac.jp/
The viewer is also available at:
https://github.com/localmedialabs/tei_comparative_viewer
In this article, I share my experience trying out this viewer.
As a result, I was able to self-host it as shown below:
https://tei-comparative-viewer.aws.ldas.jp/

It loads the following XML file of “Kaitoshokokki” (Record of Countries and Peoples in the Eastern Sea):
https://asia-da.lit.kyushu-u.ac.jp/viewer/300

Running Locally#
Detailed instructions are provided at the following link, which I followed to get it running:
https://github.com/localmedialabs/tei_comparative_viewer/blob/main/docs/SETUP.md
Running on a Server#
To run it on a server, I used Docker.
The forked repository is available at:
https://github.com/nakamura196/tei_comparative_viewer/tree/docker-traefik-setup
I prepared the following files:
Summary#
There may be some inaccuracies, but I hope this serves as a useful reference.
I would like to thank the people involved for making the system and tools publicly available.