Japan Studies: Home

What is in this guide?

This guide is intended to assist researchers looking for information about Japanese studies. It also provides links to resources and information outside of our collections.

If you are looking for materials to learn or teach the Japanese language, go to our Resources for Japanese Language Learning and Teaching.

Newly Arrived Materials

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Online web archive that boasts the largest corpus of encyclopedia, dictionaries, reference compilations, and periodical resources (approximately 50 different sources) in Japan.

The site provides access to full-text search of major Japanese newspapers from the past 30 years, including profiles of 1.2 million public and private

companies.