Online Resources

Unless otherwise indicated, the resources listed below are freely available to all Internet users.

• Books and Journal Titles
• Journal/Magazine Articles
• Newspaper Articles
• Japanese Web Sites and Databases
• Reference/Research
• Subject-Specific Resources

Books and Journal Titles

Finding Books and Journals at Libraries:

• UCLA Library Catalog
• Melvyl: holdings of University of California campuses, California State Universities, and more
• Worldcat: holdings of Online Computer Library Center member institutions; available to UCLA users only
• National Diet Library Online Public Access Catalog: also available as a part of Digital Archive Portal
• WebcatPlus: holdings of NACSIS-CAT member institutions; also available as a part of GeNii
• Union List of Japanese Serials and Newspapers: 8,323 titles held by forty-four academic libraries libraries in North America; not updated since Sept. 30, 2000

Finding Books and Journals in Print:

• Books.or.jp: books currently available on the market, from the Japan Book Publishers Association
• Seifu kankōbutsu, kanpō, kanpō kōkoku 政府刊行物・官報・官報公告: government publications
• Nihon no furuhonya 日本の古本屋: largest database of secondhand books in Japan; many participants from Zenkoku Koshosekisho Kumiai Rengokai
• Jimbou Book Town: information about Kanda Book Town, the largest center of secondhand books in Japan

Journal/Magazine Articles

• CiNii: Citation Information by NII 論文情報ナビゲーター: indexes to journal articles, including the National Diet Library Journal Periodicals Index, with full-text for some fifteen hundred journals; part of GeNii
• The Complete Database for Japanese Magazine and Periodicals from the Meiji Era to the Present 雑誌記事索引集成データベース: Indexes to journal and magazine articles from Japan published since the Meiji period (1868-1912), with links to NACSIS Webcat, WebcatPlus, and the National Diet Library's OPAC.
• MagazinePlus: National Diet Library Japanese Periodicals Index of journal articles published since 1948; articles in popular Japanese magazines since 1980; and essays in festschriften, conference papers, books, annuals, and research reports published by research organizations between 1945 and 2003; available to UCLA users only
• National Diet Library Japanese Periodicals Index 雑誌記事索引: indexes to academic periodicals since 1948 in all subjects held by the library; mostly in Japanese, with some English journals published in Japan
• Senrȳki shinbun zasshi j̄h̄ d̄tab̄su 占領期新聞雑誌情報データベース: indexes to magazine and newspaper articles published between 1945 and 1949 held in the Prange Collection at the University of Maryland, which originally belonged to the Civil Censorship Detachment, a unit within GHQ; created by the Institute of Twentieth-Century Media/Committee for the Preservation of Magazines Published during the Occupation  
• Yomidasu Rekishikan ヨミダス歴史館
  Full text access to Yomiuri shibun 読売新聞 (1874-present) and Daily Yomiuri (1989-present). The database also provides dictionaries (Japanese/English, English/Japanese, or new words dictionaries) to look up definitions and biographies, just by highlighting any words in the article and clicking dictionary buttons.
• Factiva: access, mostly to full text, to nearly nine thousand business and general news sources, including U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and wire services; includes major Japanese newspapers Mainichi shinbun and Yomiuri shinbun and English newspapers on Japan Daily Yomiuri, Mainichi Daily News, and Japan Times; available to UCLA users only 
• National Diet Library Guide to Japanese Newspapers テーマ別調べ方--新聞: comprehensive list of newspaper-related resources; helpful for locating titles and holdings in Japan
• Mainichi Photo Bank 毎日フォトバンク: digital photographic archive that includes information on dates and places photos were taken, dates of publication, and other details; offered by Maichi Shinbunsha
• Newspaper Article in Digital Version 戦前期新聞経済記事文庫: covers the late Meiji period to 1943, with a focus on business, economy, and industry; developed by Kobe University
• Senzen Nihon zaij̄ Ch̄senjin kankei shinbun kiji kensaku d̄tab̄su 戦前日本在住朝鮮人関係新聞記事検索データベース: indexes to newspaper articles about Korean nationals living in Japan published in Japan and Korea during the prewar period; provided by Kyoto University
• Press Net: information related to newspaper industry; provided by the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association 
• Japan Times Online: news since January 1999

Web Sites and Databases

• Dnavi: list of databases available online; created by the National Diet Library
• Portal to Asian Internet Resources: cooperative project of the Ohio State University Libraries, University of Minnesota Libraries, and University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
• Portal to the World: Japan: Selected Internet Resources: selected by experts at the Library of Congress
• Daigaku Web Saito Shigen Kensaku 大学Webサイト資源検索: index to digital resources produced by Japanese universities; provided by the National Institute of Informatics
• Int̄netto Gakujutsu J̄h̄ Indekksu インターネット学術情報インデックス: index of online scholarly resources; provided by the University of Tokyo Library and the Information Technology Center
• Ariadne: Resources for Arts and Humanities: classified into twenty-one subcategories
• Web Archiving Project: selected archived Web sites and electronic journals produced by Japanese government agencies, universities, and other public institutions and organizations; developed by the National Diet Library
• Wayback Machine: the largest internet archive site in the U.S.; includes some Japanese sites

Reference/Research

• JapanKnowledge: Access to basic Japanese reference sources including encyclopedias and dictionaries (e.g., Nihon daihyakka zansho 日本大百科全書, Nhon kokugo daijiten 日本国語大辞典, Encyclopedia of Japan, etc.) and to full text of the monographic series Tōyō bunko 東洋文庫 (Heibonsha) and the weekly magazine Shūkan ekonomisuto 週刊エコノミスト
• Rikai: program for learning Japanese, which also provides readings and definitions of Chinese characters in English; created by Todd David Rudick, a software engineer in Tokyo, utilizing the resources made available by Jim Breen and his EDICT Project
• NCC Information Literacy Resources: resources related to Japanese electronic resource instruction including guides and lesson plans; provided by the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources
• T̄mabetsu shirabekata annai テーマ別調べ方案内: guides to research in various subjects and special materials; provided by the National Diet Library
• Pathfinder Bank: indexes to information search tools on specific topics; provided by the Japan Association of Private University Libraries
• Jissen Joshi Daigaku Toshokan tosho zasshi kensaku p̄ji 実践女子大学図書館図書・雑誌検索ページ: guides to online resources including reference tools, books, journals and newspapers, and articles
• Kaken: database of research projects funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology 文部科学省 and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 日本学術振興会; covers projects funded 1997-2005 and research results for 1985-2002
• ReaD: Directory Database of Research and Development Activities 研究開発支援総合ディレクトリ: information on research institutes, researchers, research projects, and research resources in Japan; maintained by the Japan Science and Technology Agency 
• Academic Society Home Village: links to homepages of academic societies in Japan; supported by the National Institute of Informatics
• Link to Japanese Think Tanks: provided by the National Institute of Research Advancement
• Directory of North American Collections of Old and Rare Japanese Books, Other Print Materials, and Manuscripts: descriptions of and contact information for collections in academic libraries and museums

Subject-Specific Resources

Anthropology/Archaeology/Art

• Cultural Heritage Online 文化遺産オンライン: database containing contains brief explanations and images of cultural assets; compiled in cooperation with museums and related organizations in Japan under the auspices of the Agency for Cultural Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
• National Museum of Japanese History 国立歴史民俗博物館: various bibliographic and full-text databases

Buddhism/Religion/Philosophy

• Indian and Buddhist Studies Treatise Database インド学仏教学論文データベース: database of articles from academic bulletins, collected research essays, and other materials published since 1952; provided by the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies
• International Research Institute of Zen Buddhism, Hanazono University 花園大学国際禅学研究所: databases including Zenseki Dētabēsu, containing many texts of Zen Buddhism available for downloading
• Taisho Tripitaka (Taisho Shinshu Daizokyo): machine-readable text database of Buddhist texts of Taishō Shinshū Taizōkyō (volumes one to eight-five) provided by the Association for Computerization of Buddhist Texts
• Philosophy/Ethics/Religious Studies WWW List in Japan 哲学・倫理学・宗教学関係国内リンク集: organized into categories including research institutions, academic societies, texts/databases, and academic journals; provided by Kiyonori Nagasaki, lecturer at Yamaguchi Kenritsu Daigaku

Economics/Political Science

• Enhancing Gateway to Economic Library: gateway to digital resources; provided by the Library of Economics at the University of Tokyo
• E-Gov 電子政府の総合窓口: gateway to government-related information and homepages of Japanese government agencies
• Portal Site of Statistical Data in Japan 統計データ・ポータルサイト: official statistics made available by the Japanese government
• Nihon no kokka sekai no gikai 日本の国会・世界の議会:  resources on the Diet of Japan, including Kokkai kaigiroku kensaku shisutemu 国会会議録検索システム; minutes of the Diet since May 20, 1947, Nihon hōrei sakuin 日本法令索引; indexes to the constitution, laws, government and ministerial ordinances, and bills, Kin-gendai Nihon seiji kankei jinbutsu bunken mokuroku 近現代日本政治関係人物文献目録; and bibliographies for Japanese active in politics since 1868; provided by the National Diet Library
• Documents originally held at the Japan Document Center, Library of Congress: more than five thousand documents, mostly in Japanese, of grey literature issued between 1993 and 1999; includes English abstracts and a mechanism for requesting copies of documents 
• Seifu Shiryō tō Fukyū Chōsakai 政府資料等普及調査会: Government Data Research Center of Japan; information includes recently produced government documents
• Nippon-Net: links to official homepages of Japanese local governments from prefecture to the city level
• Japanese Legal Research at the University of Washington: guides and links
• Dētabēsu Sekai to Nihon データベース「世界と日本」The World and Japan Database Project: databases, full-text of important documents, and links related to international relations; provided by the Institute of Oriental Culture at the University of Tokyo
• Ohara Institute for Social Research, Hosei University 法政大学大原社会問題研究所: databases and links to resources on labor and social movements in Japan
• Roper Center, Japanese Data Archive: comprehensive database of Japanese public opinion data; contains more than ten thousand public opinion questions and  responses from major survey research sources covering social, political, and economic topics throughout the current decade; registration required

Education

• Kyōikukei denshi shiryō nabigeishon shisutemu 教育系電子資料ナビゲイションシステム E-Topia: subject gateway created by the Tokyo Gakugei University Library

History

• Japan Center for Asian Historical Records, National Archives of Japan 国立公文書館アジア歴史資料センター: digital archive of modern records held by the National Archives of Japan, Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Library of the National Institute for Defense Studies at the National Defense Agency
• National Archives of Japan Digital Archive 国立公文書デジタルアーカイブ・システム: descriptions and digitized images of historical records, including some important cultural properties and other materials of historical importance
• Tōkyō Daigaku Shiryō Hensanjo dētabēsu 東京大学史料編纂所データベース: databases including the index to Dai Nihon shiryō; full-text of Dai Nihon komonjo, Dai Nihon kokiroku, and Heian ibun; and the Online Glossary of Japanese Historical Terms
• Nichibunken Databases 国際日本文化研究センター（日文研）データベース: full-text, images, biographical and bibliographical data, directories, and indexes in subjects including art, geography, history, literature, and social sciences; provided by the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)
• Japanese Historical Maps, East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley: images of maps and books from a collection acquired from the Mitsui family in 1949
• Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period: some six thousand items; provided by the Nagasaki University Library
• Japanese War Crimes, The National Archives: the reference book Researching Japanese War Crimes Records: Introductory Essays and an electronic records finding aid for locating and using files related to the war in the Pacific; created by the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group

Language and Literature

• National Institute for the Japanese Language 国立国語研究所: research reports and reference tools on Japanese language studies
• Minna no kyōzai saito みんなの教材サイト: language teaching materials and information that language instructors can use to prepare lessons; organized by Japan Foundation Japanese Language Institute, Urawa
• Selected Links on Japanese Language Instruction: prepared by Japanese language instructors at the Japan Foundation Japanese Language Institute, Urawa
• Linguistics and Language-Related Web Sites in Japan: Maintained by Gotoo Hitosi, associate professor of linguistics at Tohoku University
• National Institute of Japanese Literature Databases 国文学研究資料館データベース: classical Japanese literature including full texts such as Nihon Koten Bungaku, which reproduces the texts published in Nihon koten bungaku taikei (Iwanami Shoten, 1957-67); Nihon Kotenseki Sōgō Mokuroku; and the Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books in Europe
• Kindai dejitaru raiburarī 近代デジタルライブラリー: full-text works published during the Meiji period and owned by the National Diet Library
• Aozora bunko 青空文庫:full-text literary works
• Tōyō bunko 東洋文庫: digitized versions of the Heibonsha series Tōyō bunko in PDF format via JapanKnowledge; accessible to UCLA users only
• Japanese Text Initiative 日本語テキストイニシアチブ: texts of classical and modern literature; collaborative effort of the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library
• Japanese Literature in Translation Search 日本文学翻訳書誌検索: database of translations of literary works into a variety of languages; maintained by the Japan Foundation
• Premodern Japanese Texts and Translations: bibliography of translations up to about 1600; includes works written in kanbun and Chinese
• Denshikasareta Nihongo tekisuto 電子化された日本語テキスト: Japanese writings from the Nara period through the modern era whose texts are available in electronic formats; entries include information about creators, charges, formats, original texts, URLs, and other details 

Library and Information Science

• National Diet Library 国立国会図書館 (NDL): access to the library's catalog, digitized full-text and images, reference guides, and publications; Digital Archive Portal includes resources available outside NDL; Collaborative Reference Database contains records of reference transactions from librarians at public, academic, and special libraries in Japan
• National Institute of Informatics 国立情報学研究所: GeNii, which offers a federated search system with WebcatPlus, CiNii, Kaken, and Academic Research Database Repository

Performing Arts and Film

• Kinejun All Movie Database キネマ旬報全映画作品データベース: Japanese and foreign movies shown in Japan since 1945; includes production date, names of directors, staff, and actors, annotations, and story
• Japanese Movie Database 日本映画データベース: approximately seventy-six thousand individuals and thirty-four thousand titles of Japanese movies since 1899

Science

• Japan Science and Technology Agency 科学技術振興機構: databases including J-STAGE, Journal@rchive, J-EAST, and J-STORE
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 日本学術振興会
• High Energy Accelerator Research Organization 高エネルギー加速器研究機構