Japan : a guide to resources

Contents

WWW Resources

Encyclopedias,
Dictionaries, Atlases 

Databases and Bibliographies

Specific Topics

Current affairs, economics,politics and development

Education

History

Literature

Social conditions and Women

Statistics
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
All Topics

WWW Resources

Encyclopedias,
Dictionaries, Atlases 

Databases and Bibliographies

Specific Topics:

Current affairs, economics,politics and development

Education

History

Literature

Social conditions and Women

Statistics

 
 
All Topics

WWW Resources

Encyclopedias,
Dictionaries, Atlases

Databases and Bibliographies

Specific Topics:

Current affairs, economics,politics and development

Education

History

Literature

Social conditions and Women

Statistics

Latest update
July 31 2009

WWW Resources

Japan information network

Japanese studies network forum

Japanese language

Australian Government in Japan

Yahoo! Japan

National Diet Library

Japan Institute of International Affairs
Japan's foremost center for producing and disseminating ideas on international relations.

Japan Focus - an Asia-Pacific e-journal

Japan Documentation Center at the Library of Congress provided access to materials on public policy in Japan 1992 until it closed in March 2000.

Columbia Center for Japanese Religion from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, NY

Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan. A number of out-of-print books available online.

Tools and Resources for Japanese Biliography
Compiled by Prof Henry Smith, Columbia University, NY

Databases and Bibliographies

General and interdisciplinary

See Databases for Asian Studies guide.

Japanese Institutional Repositories Online (JAIRO)
A bi-lingual site which gives access to journal articles, theses or dissertations, and research papers from Japanese institutional repositories.

For Australian coverage of Asia  and Japan:
Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT
Includes full text for some journals 1995-, notably Asian studies review.

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
Current events, business and popular culture with access to the full-text of Australasian and international magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information. Some scholarly journals included.

Bibliographies

Bibliography of Japanese History up to 1912
From the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, UK

Japan and the Japanese: a bibliographic guide to reference sources. 1996.
Reference collection 052.0016 M235j

Japanese history and culture from ancient to modern times: seven basic bibliographies. 2nd. ed.1995.
Reference collection 952.0016 D746j.2

Japanese studies from pre-history to 1990: a bibliographical guide. 1992
Reference collection 952.10016 P455j

Shulman, F. Japan (World bibliographical series) 1989
Reference collection 952.0016 S562j

 Current affairs, economics, politics and development

Asian recorder 1955-
Ref 950.5 A883

Japanese Language News and Magazines
A list of Japanese-language newspapers and news magazines compiled by the MIT
Libraries

Factiva
Full text searching of newspapers all over the world, including many Japanese titles.
Searches can be limited by region, date etc

The BSL also holds a large number of newspapers on microfilm. 
They are in the catalogue and also listed in
Newspapers in the Barr Smith Library: a finding list

EBSCO Business Source Complete
A very large database covering all aspects of business and commerce related
subjects for over 1,200 journals some indexed back to 1886.

Asian-Pacific economic literature 1997-

Japan Institute of International Affairs

Ministry of Finance Japan website

Bank of Japan website

Dictionary of the modern politics of Japan,  J.A.A. Stockwin
Reference collection 320.95203 S866d

Encyclopedia of Japanese business and management,  ed. Allan Bird, 2002
Reference collection 650.0952 B618e

Historical dictionary of United States-Japan relations, John Van Sant, 2007
Reference collection 327.7305203 V277h  

Education

History

Bibliography of Asian Studies

Bibliography of Japanese history up to 1912 compiled by Peter Kornicki, University of Cambridge, UK.

Historical Abstracts

Japanese history and culture from ancient to modern times : seven basic bibliographies, John W. Dower, 1995
Reference collection 952.0016 D746j.2 

Literature

Japanese text initiative from the Univerity of Viginia and the University of Pittsburgh

Lewell, J. Modern Japanese novelists: a biographical dictionary. 1993
Reference collection 895.63409 L671m

Japanese literature in foreign languages 1945-1995, compiled by the Japan P.E.N. Club. 1997
Reference collection 895.6 N691j

Mamola, C. Z. Japanese women writers in English translation : an annotated bibliography. 2 vols.1989-1992
Reference collection 895.6 M265j

Schierbeck, S. S. Postwar Japanese women writers : an up-to-date bibliography with biographical sketches = Sengo Nihon joryu sakka no rireki. 1989
Reference collection 895.6 S332p

Leiter, S.L. Kabuki encyclopedia: an English-language adaptation of Kabuki jiten. 1979
Reference collection 895.62003 L533k

Social conditions and Women

Studies on women & gender abstracts 1997-

Huber, K. R Women in Japanese society : an annotated bibliography of selected English language materials. 1992 
Reference collection 305.420952 H877w 

Nihon no josei : dokusho annai, denki hen. 1995 
Guide to famous Japanese biographies, women in Japanese history. 
Main Collection 305.40952 N594n

Statistics

Asahi nenkan [Includes statistical information on Japan. Text in Japanese]
Reference collection 952.005 A798 (latest) (Earlier edition in Main Collection)

Japan Statistical yearbook 2008
earler editions at 315.205 J35 Main collection

Japanese working life profile, Japan Institute of Labour
Reference collection 331.1095205 J35 (earlier editions in Main Collection)