 As of 2011, a second edition has not been published, but at least one facsimile edition was published in 1989 by the current "Nan'yō Kyōkai", now based in Tokyo.While the "Nichi-Ran jiten" was published only in 1934, its compilation had already been finished in 1925.According to the preface, the compiler, Peter Adriaan van de Stadt, was approached in 1922 by the then Japanese consulate general Matsumoto in Batavia (of the then Dutch East Indies, today Jakarta, Indonesia).