Online Resources
Unless otherwise indicated, the resources listed below are freely available to all Internet users.
Finding Books and Journals at Libraries:
Finding Books and Journals in Print:
- Books.or.jp: books currently available on the market, from the Japan Book Publishers Association
- 政府刊行物・官報・官報公告: government publications
- 日本の古本屋: largest database of secondhand books in Japan; many participants from Zenkoku Koshosekisho Kumiai Rengokai
- Jimbou Book Town: information about Kanda Book Town, the largest center of secondhand books in Japan
- MagazinePlus: National Diet Library Japanese Periodicals Index of journal articles published since 1948; articles in popular Japanese magazines since 1980; and essays in festschriften, conference papers, books, annuals, and research reports published by research organizations between 1945 and 2003; available to UCLA users only
- National Diet Library Japanese Periodicals Index 雑誌記事索引: indexes to academic periodicals since 1948 in all subjects held by the library; mostly in Japanese, with some English journals published in Japan
- CiNii: Citation Information by NII 論文情報ナビゲーター: indexes to journal articles, including the National Diet Library Journal Periodicals Index, with full-text for some fifteen hundred journals; part of GeNii
- 占領期新聞雑誌情報データベース: indexes to magazine and newspaper articles published between 1945 and 1949 held in the Prange Collection at the University of Maryland, which originally belonged to the Civil Censorship Detachment, a unit within GHQ; created by the Institute of Twentieth-Century Media/Committee for the Preservation of Magazines Published during the Occupation
- 明治・大正・昭和前期雑誌記事索引集成: author index to the print publication Meiji, Taishō, Shōwa zenki zasshi kiji sakuin shūsei (Kōseisha), which reproduces various periodical indexes originally published during the Meiji period (1868-1912) through 1948
- Asahi Kikuzo II Visual
Accesses to 1) Asahi shinbun (1945-present), 2) AERA (May 1988-present), and 3) Shūkan Asahi (April 2000-present; news section only), and 4) Historical Photo Archive, containing ca. 10,000 pieces of historical photographs taken in Asia and Europe from the 1930s to 1945 (available until March 2010)
- Factiva: access, mostly to full text, to nearly nine thousand business and general news sources, including U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and wire services; includes major Japanese newspapers Mainichi shinbun and Yomiuri shinbun and English newspapers on Japan Daily Yomiuri, Mainichi Daily News, and Japan Times; available to UCLA users only
- National Diet Library Guide to Japanese Newspapers テーマ別調べ方--新聞: comprehensive list of newspaper-related resources; helpful for locating titles and holdings in Japan
- Mainichi Photo Bank 毎日フォトバンク: digital photographic archive that includes information on dates and places photos were taken, dates of publication, and other details; offered by Maichi Shinbunsha
- Newspaper Article in Digital Version 戦前期新聞経済記事文庫: covers the late Meiji period to 1943, with a focus on business, economy, and industry; developed by Kobe University
- 戦前日本在住朝鮮人関係新聞記事検索データベース: indexes to newspaper articles about Korean nationals living in Japan published in Japan and Korea during the prewar period; provided by Kyoto University
- Press Net: information related to newspaper industry; provided by the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association
- Japan Times Online: news since January 1999
- Dnavi: list of databases available online; created by the National Diet Library
- Portal to Asian Internet Resources: cooperative project of the Ohio State University Libraries, University of Minnesota Libraries, and University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
- Portal to the World: Japan: Selected Internet Resources: selected by experts at the Library of Congress
- 大学Webサイト資源検索: index to digital resources produced by Japanese universities; provided by the National Institute of Informatics
- インターネット学術情報インデックス: index of online scholarly resources; provided by the University of Tokyo Library and the Information Technology Center
- Ariadne: Resources for Arts and Humanities: classified into twenty-one subcategories
- Web Archiving Project: selected archived Web sites and electronic journals produced by Japanese government agencies, universities, and other public institutions and organizations; developed by the National Diet Library
- Wayback Machine: the largest internet archive site in the U.S.; includes some Japanese sites
- JapanKnowledge: Japanese reference sources including encyclopedias and dictionaries, the full text of the monographic series Tōyō Bunko (Heibonsha), and the weekly magazine Shūkan ekonomisuto; available to UCLA users only
- 日国 Online: online version of Nihon kokugo daijiten 日本国語大辞典 (Tokyo: Shogakkan, 2000-02); access via JapanKnowledge
- Rikai: program for learning Japanese, which also provides readings and definitions of Chinese characters in English; created by Todd David Rudick, a software engineer in Tokyo, utilizing the resources made available by Jim Breen and his EDICT Project
- NCC Information Literacy Resources: resources related to Japanese electronic resource instruction including guides and lesson plans; provided by the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources
- テーマ別調べ方案内: guides to research in various subjects and special materials; provided by the National Diet Library
- Pathfinder Bank: indexes to information search tools on specific topics; provided by the Japan Association of Private University Libraries
- 実践女子大学図書館図書・雑誌検索ページ: guides to online resources including reference tools, books, journals and newspapers, and articles
- Kaken: database of research projects funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology 文部科学省 and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 日本学術振興会; covers projects funded 1997-2005 and research results for 1985-2002
- ReaD: Directory Database of Research and Development Activities 研究開発支援総合ディレクトリ: information on research institutes, researchers, research projects, and research resources in Japan; maintained by the Japan Science and Technology Agency
- Academic Society Home Village: links to homepages of academic societies in Japan; supported by the National Institute of Informatics
- Link to Japanese Think Tanks: provided by the National Institute of Research Advancement
- Directory of North American Collections of Old and Rare Japanese Books, Other Print Materials, and Manuscripts: descriptions of and contact information for collections in academic libraries and museums
Anthropology/Archaeology/Art
Buddhism/Religion/Philosophy
Economics/Political Science
- Enhancing Gateway to Economic Library: gateway to digital resources; provided by the Library of Economics at the University of Tokyo
- E-Gov 電子政府の総合窓口: gateway to government-related information and homepages of Japanese government agencies
- Portal Site of Statistical Data in Japan 統計データ・ポータルサイト: official statistics made available by the Japanese government
- 日本の国会・世界の議会: resources on the Diet of Japan, including 国会会議録検索システム; minutes of the Diet since May 20, 1947, 日本法令索引; indexes to the constitution, laws, government and ministerial ordinances, and bills, 近現代日本政治関係人物文献目録; and bibliographies for Japanese active in politics since 1868; provided by the National Diet Library
- Documents originally held at the Japan Document Center, Library of Congress: more than five thousand documents, mostly in Japanese, of grey literature issued between 1993 and 1999; includes English abstracts and a mechanism for requesting copies of documents
- 政府資料等普及調査会: Government Data Research Center of Japan; information includes recently produced government documents
- Nippon-Net: links to official homepages of Japanese local governments from prefecture to the city level
- Japanese Legal Research at the University of Washington: guides and links
- データベース「世界と日本」"The World and Japan" Database Project: databases, full-text of important documents, and links related to international relations; provided by the Institute of Oriental Culture at the University of Tokyo
- Ohara Institute for Social Research, Hosei University 法政大学大原社会問題研究所: databases and links to resources on labor and social movements in Japan
- Roper Center, Japanese Data Archive: comprehensive database of Japanese public opinion data; contains more than ten thousand public opinion questions and responses from major survey research sources covering social, political, and economic topics throughout the current decade; registration required
Education
History
- Japan Center for Asian Historical Records, National Archives of Japan 国立公文書館アジア歴史資料センター: digital archive of modern records held by the National Archives of Japan, Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Library of the National Institute for Defense Studies at the National Defense Agency
- National Archives of Japan Digital Archive 国立公文書デジタルアーカイブ・システム: descriptions and digitized images of historical records, including some important cultural properties and other materials of historical importance
- 東京大学史料編纂所データベース: databases including the index to Dai Nihon shiryō; full-text of Dai Nihon komonjo, Dai Nihon kokiroku, and Heian ibun; and the Online Glossary of Japanese Historical Terms
- Nichibunken Databases 国際日本文化研究センター（日文研）データベース: full-text, images, biographical and bibliographical data, directories, and indexes in subjects including art, geography, history, literature, and social sciences; provided by the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)
- Japanese Historical Maps, East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley: images of maps and books from a collection acquired from the Mitsui family in 1949
- Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period: some six thousand items; provided by the Nagasaki University Library
- Japanese War Crimes, The National Archives: the reference book Researching Japanese War Crimes Records: Introductory Essays and an electronic records finding aid for locating and using files related to the war in the Pacific; created by the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group
Language and Literature
- National Institute for the Japanese Language 国立国語研究所: research reports and reference tools on Japanese language studies
- みんなの教材サイト: language teaching materials and information that language instructors can use to prepare lessons; organized by Japan Foundation Japanese Language Institute, Urawa
- Selected Links on Japanese Language Instruction: prepared by Japanese language instructors at the Japan Foundation Japanese Language Institute, Urawa
- Linguistics and Language-Related Web Sites in Japan: Maintained by Gotoo Hitosi, associate professor of linguistics at Tohoku University
- National Institute of Japanese Literature Databases 国文学研究資料館データベース: classical Japanese literature including full texts such as Nihon Koten Bungaku, which reproduces the texts published in Nihon koten bungaku taikei (Iwanami Shoten, 1957-67); Nihon Kotenseki Sōgō Mokuroku; and the Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books in Europe
- 近代デジタルライブラリー: full-text works published during the Meiji period and owned by the National Diet Library
- 青空文庫: full-text literary works
- 東洋文庫: digitized versions of the Heibonsha series Tōyō bunko in PDF format via JapanKnowledge; accessible to UCLA users only
- Japanese Text Initiative 日本語テキストイニシアチブ: texts of classical and modern literature; collaborative effort of the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library
- Japanese Literature in Translation Search 日本文学翻訳書誌検索: database of translations of literary works into a variety of languages; maintained by the Japan Foundation
- Premodern Japanese Texts and Translations: bibliography of translations up to about 1600; includes works written in kanbun and Chinese
- 電子化された日本語テキスト: Japanese writings from the Nara period through the modern era whose texts are available in electronic formats; entries include information about creators, charges, formats, original texts, URLs, and other details
Library and Information Science
Performing Arts and Film
Science
