Japanese Studies

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Finding Books & Articles 

Finding Articles

Bibliography of Asian Studies (Available only to UA Students, Faculty, & Staff)
All subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia.

Academic Search Complete (Available only to UA Students, Faculty, & Staff)
Multidisciplinary database that includes some full-text articles.

Arts & Humanities Citation index (Available only to UA Students, Faculty, & Staff)
Multidisciplinary database through cited authors.

Humanities International Complete (Available only to UA Students, Faculty, & Staff)
Index of the humanities literature.

Social Science Citation Index (Available only to UA Students, Faculty, & Staff)
Multidisciplinary database through cited authors.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (Available only to UA Students, Faculty, & Staff)
Includes English language versions of Japanese newspapers such as the Japan Times and Daily Yomiuri.

MAGAZINEPLUS (in Japanese) (Available only to UA Students, Faculty, & Staff)
Web-based index to periodical articles published in Japan.

Finding Japanese Books

NDL OPAC (in Japanese)
Holdings of Japan's National Diet Library.

National Institute of Informatics GeNii (in Japanese)
Portal site for finding scholarly books held by major Japanese university libraries (Webcat Plus) and for finding scholarly articles in Japan (CiNii - citation only, no full text access).

Waseda University Library (in Japanese)
Some materials held in Waseda University are available to UA faculty,
staff, and students through interlibrary loan.

Requesting Japanese Material through Interlibrary Loan

GIF Project (Japanese Interlibrary Loan) Guide
Guides to locating books and articles held in Japanese libraries and requesting interlibrary loan.

Finding Translations

Japanese Literature in Translation
Search Japanese literature translated into other languages