Dai Nihon hyakka j. (Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan; est. in 1914 as Tōkyō Kyōiku Hakubutsukan; name chg. to: Tōkyō Kagaku Hakubutsukan in 1931; chg. to: Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan in 1949)
Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Symposia on Collection Building and Natural History Studies in Asia and the Pacific Rim, 2002 t.p. (National Science Museum, Tokyo) foreword ("the National Science Museum, Tokyo has organized ...")
Gijutsu no rekishi o mirai ni yakudateru tame ni wa, 2001 t.p. (Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan) p. 10 (operation began as a dokuritsu gy-osei h-ojin [independent administrative institution] in April 2001) colophon (Dokuritsu Gy-osei H-ojin Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan)
Shokuinroku, 2002 v. 1, p. 1921 (Dokuritsu Gyōsei Hōjin Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan; [dokuritsu gyōsei hōjin is not part of the name of the body but a legal term meaning administratively independent])
Deep-sea fauna and pollutants in Suruga Bay, 1997 t.p. (National Science Museum, Tokyo) spine (NSM)
Letter from National Museum of Nature and Science, June 20, 2007 (the Museum has changed its English appellation, former name: National Science Museum; new name: National Museum of Nature and Science)
Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series B, Botany, Mar. 2007 colophon (Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan)