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Japan Studies: Major Online Resources at Glance

Top Reference Tools

JapanKnowledge
A large collection of language dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical dictionaries, and other Japanese reference works, ebooks and journals. Click here for more information on individual sources.  

NDL search
Integrated search service of catalogs and digital archives, including the National Diet Library, public, university, and specialized libraries, and academic institutes.

CiNii BooksArticles & Data, Dissertations 
Three databases by CiNii be searched with academic information from articles, Books, Journals & Dissertations published in Japan. 

Next Digital Libra0ry
Full-text search about 350,000 materials (as of November 2022) in the public domain available in the National Diet Library Digital Collections.

For more comprehensive information on reference tool for Japan Studies, please click here

Other Reference Tools

Encyclopedias

Language / Character Dictionaries

Biographies

History

Religion

E-J / J-E dictionaries

Find Journal Articles / Book Chapters

For more information about finding journal articles / book chapeters, click here

Japanese Language

English Language

Also, search other full-text databases such as EBSCO, JSTORE, Project Muse, etc.

Major electronic resource platform

Major ebook sets

Dissertations

Japanese

English

Images, Audio, Film, etc

Images

Films /  Moving images

Audio

Online Fulltest Journals

Japanese language

English language

Online Newspapers

For more information about all the newspaper resources, click here

Japanese language

English language

Archives