East Asian Studies 

This month's issue of the online journal Words without Borders is about Japanese translation: http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/

BobCat and WorldCat can now be searched using 漢字! Give it a try. But if you don't find what you are looking for (there are sometimes technical complications), do a search using the English alphabet also. BobCat and WorldCat use the Library of Congress romanization system for Japanese, which is based on the principles of the the modified Hepburn system (for example, 新聞is romanized shinbun).

Our Japanese collection is still in the early stages of its development. If you need a resource that we don't appear to have yet, please be sure to contact the East Asian Studies librarian using the links on the right side of this page. If the item is in another North American library, you may also want to request the material via InterLibrary Loan. Thanks to an arrangement called by the North American Coordinating Council for Japanese Library Resources (NCC), it is also possible to obtain journal articles and books not held by a North American library from Japan. See the Global Interlibrary Loan framework site or ask the East Asian Studies librarian for details.

We have trial access to JapanKnowledge, a rich resource of Japanese reference sources, while we are negotiating a license with them. Among the many encyclopedias and dictionaries it includes is the Nihon Kokugo Daijiten. Click the Japanese "login" button to access.

Tao Yang, the East Asian Studies Librarian at Rutgers University, has created an incredibly comprehensive guide to free online research materials on China, Japan, and Korea. Be sure to browse this unparalleled compilation! 

• Denshi Toshokan: A comprehensive, frequently updated collection of links to Japanese e-texts, both premodern and modern. Includes links to some of the biggest collections, including Aozora Bunko and the Japanese Text Initiative.
• Kindai Digital Library: A National Diet Library project that has digitized more than 55,000 Meiji period texts.

Thanks to a generous gift, we have many back issues of major Japanese journals from the mid- to late 20th century. They can be searched by title in BobCat and browsed in the East Asian Collection in the 10th floor North reading room. In addition, we have ongoing subscriptions to the following print journals in Japanese. Current issues are in the Current Periodical room on the 3rd floor of Bobst; bound back issues are found in the stacks of Bobst at the call number indicated in BobCat.

Gendai shiso　現代思想

Gunzo　群像

Kokubungaku: kaishaku to kansho　国文学解釈と鑑賞

Nihon bungaku日本文学

Sekai　世界

Shincho　新潮

Shiso　思想

Yuriika　ユリイカ