Reference resources provide quick information, brief histories and explanations, and even overviews of a field. The pages under this tab provide examples and guidance on search strategies to find:
Japan KnowledgeA large online collection of language dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other Japanese reference works that you can search in one easy step. Searches are only possible in Japanese
NDL search 国立国会図書館サーチPowerful search engine for books, journal articles, digital images as well as dissertations. Their catalog often includes titles and pagination of chapters as 部分タイトル or 詳細情報.
Bibliography of Asian StudiesBAS contains citation records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published in Western-languages from 1971 to the present. The online BAS has all the data from BAS print editions from 1971 to 1991, which included citations to periodical articles, monographs, book chapters, conference proceedings, etc. But BAS has not added monographs published since 1992, so users need to search WorldCat for recently published monographs. BAS has identified 100+ most important periodicals in Asian Studies and indexed them on a priority basis.
Research Navi - EnglishBibliographic guide compiled by National Diet Library for various subjects.