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Modern Japan Studies Resources

Research Databases
Title Description
Bibliography of Asian Studies Full content of the whole twenty years of the annual printed Bibliography of Asian Studies (from 1971–1991), plus citations for articles from 1992 to the present in more than 100 journals in the field of Asian studies. Contains over 590,000 references to books, journal articles, individually-authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc.
Lexis-Nexis  "Includes the full text of articles from major sources of information on general news, companies, industries & markets, government & politics, legislation, countries and states, biographies, reference, medicine and health, accounting, auditing and taxes."
Humanities Abstracts Indexes core humanities journals including the Journal of Asian History and Journal of Asian Studies.
Expanded Academic Index
Expanded Academic ASAP offers balanced, full text coverage of every academic concentration--from advertising and microbiology to history, political science, and art history. Over 3,000 titles indexed and over 1,000 titles in fulltext.


Selected Reference Resources
Title Location
The Asian political dictionary Reference Coll: DS31 .Z57 1985 
Biographical dictionary of Japanese history Reference Coll: DS834 .B56 
The Cambridge encyclopedia of Japan Reference Coll: DS805 .C36 1993
Concise dictionary of modern Japanese history Reference Coll: DS881.9 .H86 1984
Encyclopaedia of Asian civilizations Reference Coll: DS4 .L68
Encyclopedia of Asian history Reference Coll: DS31 .E53 1988
Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan Reference Coll: DS833 .P3 1964
Historical dictionary of Vietnam Reference Coll: DS556.25 .D85 1989 
Japan economic almanac Reference Coll: HC461 .J29 1997
Political parties of Asia and the Pacific Reference Coll: JQ39.A45 P64 1985


Videos/Multimedia Items
Title Location
The Bomb [videorecording] Media Coll : D743 .W6 1980 v.24 
Exotic Japan [interactive multimedia] Media Coll : DS821 .Y65 1994 
Folk tales for students of Japanese Media Coll : PL539.15.F66 R35 1989 
Japan, 1941-1945 [videorecording] Media Coll : D743 .W6 1980 v.22 
The Japanese economic bubble [videorecording] Media Coll : HC462.95 .J36 1993 
Labor-management relations in Japan [videorecording] Media Coll : HD8726.5 .L29 1981 


Journals
  • ARTIBUS ASIAE
  • ASIAN DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
  • ASIAN SURVEY
  • BULLETIN OF CONCERNED ASIAN SCHOLARS
  • CHANOYU QUARTERLY (KYOTO, JAPAN : 1976)
  • JAPAN ECHO
  • THE JAPAN FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER
  • JAPAN PICTORIAL (NORTH AMERICAN EDITION)
  • JAPAN QUARTERLY (ASAHI SHINBUNSHA)
  • JAPANESE LITERATURE TODAY
  • JAPANESE RELIGIONS
  • JOURNAL OF ASIAN HISTORY
  • THE JOURNAL OF JAPANESE STUDIES
  • MAINICHI DAILY NEWS
  • MODERN ASIAN STUDIES
  • MONUMENTA NIPPONICA 


Web Resources
Documenting Web Sources Chicago Style
Asian Studies Department Home Page
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan COOMBSWEB ANU SOCIAL SCIENCES/ASIAN STUDIES SERVER
Asian Continent Information Resources Asian Textiles Heritage
World Art Treasures


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