But after the Six National Histories it was interrupted and no longer continued .... Now the evil of misrule by the warriors since the Kamakura period has been overcome and imperial government has been restored.

The office changed a first time in 1875 to become the Shushikyoku (修史局, Office of Historical Compilation) and was abolished and re-established in 1877 as the Shushikan (修史館, House of Historical Compilation), which started to work on a national history, the Dai-Nihon hennenshi (Chronological History of Great Japan) in 1882, which later became part of the Dai-Nihon shiryō (described below).

After several reorganizations, this office was transferred to Tokyo Imperial University in 1888; but in 1893, the Minister of Education terminated the work because of conflict between the government and the institute members over the aims and goals of history (also known as the Kume Kunitake Affair, named after the historian, Kume Kunitake, who was expelled from the Historiographical Institute for writing an article that challenged the customs of State Shinto, and was known for advocating a more "Western," scientific approach to history).

Today, the Historiographical Institute continues to play a central role in the compiling, cataloging, and restoring of historical materials.

[2] The Institute is composed of five Research Departments, a Library, a Conservation Laboratory, a Center for the Study of Visual Sources, and an Administrative Office.

The Historiographical Institute has been responsible for the compilation and publication of a vast number of resources related to pre-modern Japanese history.

A comprehensive list can be found here: http://www.hi.u-tokyo.ac.jp/hipub.html The most important publication of the Historiographical Institute is the still-to-be-completed, 343+ volume Dai-Nihon shiryō.

The variety of source materials in this work includes formal histories, government documents, letters, journals, biographies, temple records, and family archives.

The Historiographical Institute also has a fifteen volume microfilm collection of historical documents relating to Japan in foreign countries.

Though it is still in draft form, the Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan is an excellent resource for finding definitions and terms from pre-modern Japanese history and literature.