Meiji-era (1868-1912) publications are easier to access for research as a result of efforts underway at many institutions in Japan, as well as through a cataloging project at Ohio State.
The National Diet Library’s entire collection of Meiji publications (102,000 titles in 169,000 volumes) is being digitized and made available through NDL’s Kindai Digital Library web site http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/ Already more than 89,000 titles (127,000 volumes) are available (as of April 4, 2006).
Despite the size of NDL’s holdings of Meiji publications, the collection is not complete. Nonetheless other libraries in Japan also have projects to digitize and/or microfilm publications of the Meiji period. Although all of these rare books were quite inaccessible only a short time ago (since few are available outside of Japanese rare book collections), increasingly one has to think about Meiji-era publications as relatively easy to get from anywhere in the world!
In contrast to the NDL project, which is limited to books available in their own collections, Yushodo undertook a project along the lines of the “short title catalog” projects of early English and other publications, aiming to collect and microfilm all Meiji-era publications and drawing on the holdings of several libraries. Known as JMSTC (Japan Meiji Short Title Catalog) or 明治期刊行物集成 (Meiji-ki kankobutsu shusei), this project has thus far covered only titles related to languages and literatures. Titles included in the 94 units comprising the JMSTC are from the following library collections:
Waseda Univesity 8,672 titles
Tenri University 1,605 titles
University of California, Berkeley 2,139 titles
Keio University 168 titles
Kansai University 282 titles
Ohio State University Library has been purchasing the JMSTC microfiche set since 1992. Access is available through author and title indexes in the accompanying guide, available in the microform area at Ohio State. Thanks to a grant from the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources’ Multi-Volume Sets Project that is providing partial support for the purchase of Units 85-94, Ohio State has completed the acquisition of JMSTC in advance of the deadline of June 30, 2007.
To improve access to and use of JMSTC, a project is underway in Ohio State’s Catalog Department to catalog all of the 12,866 titles in this microfiche set within four years. Sherab Chen (Assistant Professor and Non-Roman Cataloging Coordinator) is directing the project. Students working under his direction are doing the research necessary to establish authors’ names and solve bibliographic problems posed by conventions of Meiji-era publishing as part of the cataloging process. As titles are cataloged, records are input into OCLC’s Worldcat as well as in Ohio State’s catalog, OSCAR. Already more than 2,100 titles have been cataloged.
In the meantime, while the cataloging project is underway, researchers can use the above-mentioned guide to the collection in order to make interlibrary loan requests. The OCLC Worldcat number for the collection is OCLC: 28304730
post updated 6-27-2007 - mhd
June 24th, 2006
OhioLINK ’s ETD Center publishes electronic theses and disseratations from universities participating in OhioLINK. The following Japan-related theses and dissertations from Ohio State are currently available there.
Since 2002/03 new PhD dissertations are automatically posted at OhioLINK . Full text versions of many earlier Ohio State Japan-related PhD dissertations are available through Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses) It is possible to request that MA/MS theses (which are not available through Dissertation Abstracts) be posted at OhioLINK when there is demand for them. Recently a request came in from the West Coast for a number of DEALL theses on the Japanese language. The library was able to respond by digitizing the theses. (This is only possible for theses that are older than 5 years, due to an option that the Graduate School gives the author to delay publication for up to five years.) That’s why so many Japan-related theses are now available.
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Angles, Jeffrey. Writing the love of boys: representations of male-male desire in the literature of Murayama Kaita and Edogawa Ranpo. Doctor of Philosophy, 2004.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1071535574
Butler, Hiroko. Bridge & non-bridge verb asymmetries in Japanese. Master of Arts, 1989.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1116615143
Eda, Sanae. Processing of intonation patterns in Japanese: implications for Japanese as a foreign language. Doctor of Philosophy, 2004.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1086187589
Filler, Stephen. Chaos from order: anarchy and anarchism in modern Japanese fiction, 1900-1930. Doctor of Philosophy, 2004.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1087570452
Fujita, Naoya. The genitive subject in Japanese and universal grammar. Master of Arts, 1988.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1116863002
Hoshino, Takane. An analysis of Hosii in modern spoken Japanese. Master of Arts, 1991.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1116617297
Kato, Michiko. Teaching the concept of tatemae to English-speakers. Master of Arts, 2000.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1116862440
Kawabe, Jun. Listener’s role and conversational strategies in Japanese discourse: an analysis of repetition. Master of Arts, 1992.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1116856515
Nagatomi, Ayumi. Pedagogical implications of negative questions in Japanese. Master of Arts, 1999.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1116614736
Nakamura, Mari. Some observations on antecedent-consequent constructions in Japanese: a pragmatic study of kara and node. Master of Arts, 1987.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1116616037
Ogino, Megumi. An analysis of sae. Master of Arts, 1990.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1116855934
Okutsu, Yuko. Functions of yahari/yappari. Master of Arts, 1992.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1116856250
Omori, Kyoko. Detecting Japanese Vernacular Modernism: Shinseinen Magazine and the Development of the Tantei Shosetsu
Genre, 1920-1931. Doctor of Philosophy, 2003.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1048620868
Onoe, Atsushi. Functions of Ne and its uses by learners. Master of Arts, 1997.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1116612263
Shibata, Chihaya. Honorific predication in early middle Japanese: a critical survey with examples from the Ookagami. Master of Arts, 1997.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1116609758
Suzuki, Misako. Refusing requests in Japanese: analysis and pedagogical implications. Master of Arts, 1997.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1116602981
Takahashi, Sonoko. The Interrogative Marker KA in Japanese. Master of Arts, 1995.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1116614186
Yip, Leo Shing Chi. Reinventing China: cultural adaptation in medieval Japanese Nô Theatre. Doctor of Philosophy, 2004.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1087569643
Economics
Kato, Ryo. THREE ESSAYS IN MONETARY ECONOMICS; WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM MONETARY ECONOMICS FOR THE LOST DECADE OF JAPAN?. Doctor of Philosophy, 2002.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1039127849
Educational Policy and Leadership
Bodenstein, Lynn. The effects of Japanese Zen Breathing Meditation and progressive relaxation on memorization. Master of Arts, 1980.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1099586864
History
Mizuno, Norihito. Japan and its East Asian neighbors: Japan’s perception of China and Korea and the making of foreign policy from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Doctor of Philosophy, 2004.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1101744928
Nishiyama, Takashi. Swords into plowshares: civilian application of wartime military technology in modern Japan, 1945-1964. Doctor of Philosophy, 2005.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1104324814
Tosaka, Yuji. Hollywood goes to Tokyo: American cultural expansion and imperial Japan, 1918-1941. Doctor of Philosophy, 2003.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1060967792
Political Science
Tsai, Chia-hung. Party voting in comparative perspective: the United States, Taiwan, and Japan. PhD, 2003.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1054756643
Teaching and Learning
Kachi, Reiko. Factors predicting native and nonnative listeners’ evaluative reactions to Japanese English. Doctor of Philosophy, 2004.
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?osu1078330131
June 22nd, 2005
Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948-1951 is a prize-winning digital collection created at Ohio State. The collection was originally prepared by the late John W. Bennett, who passed away at 89 on February 74, 2005.
Bennett earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1946 and taught anthropology and sociology at Ohio State from 1946 to 1959. After leaving Ohio State, he taught at Washington University, where the following notice of his passing was posted. The notice mentions Bennett’s last work, a memoir about his field work in Japan during the period when he was on the faculty at Ohio State. The project, which is available at OSU Libraries’ web site, won the 2004 David Plath Media Award of the American Anthropological Association. Here’s a notice of that award from the Libraries’ home page:
Rare Books and Manuscripts Web Site Receives Plath Award: “Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan,” an OSU Libraries web site, has received the 2004 David Plath Media Award from the Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA) of the American Anthropological Association. The site features photographs taken by anthropologist John W. Bennett in occupied Japan from 1948-1951, and was developed by his son, Dr. John M. Bennett, Curator of the Avant Writing Collection of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Library. SEAA is committed to developing international channels of communication among anthropologists throughout the world.
In 2004, Bennett also was awarded the Bronislaw Malinowski Award of the Society for Applied Anthropology. The notice on the SFAA web site includes a review of his career.
Originally posted as an email on February 3, 2005 — mhd
April 8th, 2005
