Bibliographies, databases, and search engines: Japanese
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Portals
Here is Maureen Donovan's page on the subject:
Various online databases
- http://www.mita.lib.keio.ac.jp/dbnavi/list.php?floor=CD
- http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~gb4k-ktr/freedb2d.htm
- http://hourei.ndl.go.jp/SearchSys/
- http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/index.html
- http://kokkai.ndl.go.jp/
- http://www.ndl.go.jp/constitution/index.html
- http://www.ndl.go.jp/exhibit/50/index.html
- http://www.ndl.go.jp/
- http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/data/diet.html
- http://www.ndl.go.jp/koyomi/index.html
- http://www.ndl.go.jp/site_nippon/japan/index.html
- http://www.ndl.go.jp/site_nippon/kensei/index.html
- http://www.ndl.go.jp/zoshoin/index.html
- http://www.kanagawa-u.ac.jp/library/search/database/
- http://www.kodomo.go.jp/
Newspapers and other periodicals
General bibliographies
- Nichigai Web Service (Select "BOOKPLUS")
Bibliographies and databases for specialized fields
History 歴史
Philology
- Early Japanese books in Cambridge University Library: a catalogue of the Aston, Satow, and Von Siebold collections. Nozomu Hayashi & Peter Kornicki.
- Kenburijji Daigaku shozō Wa-Kan kosho sōgō mokuroku: Asuton, Satō, Shīboruto korekushon. Pītā Kōnikkī, Hayashi Nozomu (kyōhen). Cambridge, England; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
- PJ25 .C15 no.40
Economics 経済学
Law/Politics 法律・政治
Anthropology / Sociology 人類学・社会学
Science / Technology 科学・技術
Biology / Biochemistry 生理生化学
Medicine 医学
Language/Linguistics 言語・言語学
One good source for articles by Japanese scholars in linguistics is this series:
Lexical items
- Nihongo kihon goi : bunken kaidai to kenkyū'. Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo (hencho). Tōkyō: Meiji Shoin, 2000. (Heisei 12).
- 日本語基本語彙: 文献解題と硏究. 国立国語硏究所(編著). 東京: 明治書院, 2000. (平成12).
- PL642 .N47 2000
Natural language corpora
Some places to get started in general (not Japanese):
Psycholinguistics
- Japanese psycholinguistics: a classified and annotated research bibliography. Kess, Joseph F.; Miyamoto Tadao (compilers). Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1994.
Popular culture/Mass culture 大衆文化・民衆文化
Art 美術
Literature 文学
Classical Japanese
See: Online resources: Classical Japanese.
Religion 宗教
- Shintō-bibliography in western languages: Bibliography on Shinto and religious sects, intellectual schools and movements influenced by Shintōism. Arcadio Schwade. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1986. OSCAR
- Christianity in Japan; a bibliography of Japanese and Chinese sources. Ebisawa, Arimichi. Tokyo: Committee on Asian Cultural Studies, International Christian University, 1960. OSCAR
Search engines
Increasingly the internet is becoming the primary tool for researchers.
What is the difference between searching on http://www.google.com/ specifying for pages written in Japanese and searching on http://www.google.co.jp/ using the same keywords?
