Japanese language and scholarly research: case studies

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Japanese language poses special problems to the scholar. Here are some solutions to particularly intractable problems:

• What language is that, anyways?

• I know it's Japanese, but what does it say?

• What do you call that thing again?

• I can't find it in a Kan-Wa jiten

• Where is here?

Here's a website devoted to case studies of reference queries: Tokyo Metropolitan Library Reference