Japanese Collections

My role has been focused on training everyone, but I made a few pages since the last report (9/28/2007). One brought together links about Japanese American internment camps to help with programming for the 2008 Day of Remembrance commemorating Toyo Suyemoto and featuring readings by Lawson Inada. Also, I put some pages together for the Japanese 800 course on research and bibliography for Japanese studies, and edited a few existing pages related to that course. Links to some of the pages are listed here. There’s a lot more to be done!! Continue reading

We just had a meeting and decided to use the Nagao Bunko classification in the Japanese Company History Wiki project.� Continue reading

This quarter we initiated a Japanese Studies Wiki. Although it is just getting started, already we’ve put a lot of information there —
https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Japanese_Studies

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Nihon no Bijutsu No. 487(Dec 2006) Shukuin Busshi

To improve access to the individual issues of Nihon no Bijutsu 日本の美術　(Arts of Japan) — a monthly journal published by Shibundo 至文堂 with many photographs of Japanese art objects — I started a list of the translated titles of each issue that was posted here in 2006. During Fall 2007 my graduate student assistant from the Department of Art History, Hyejeong Choi, took over the project.

As of January 2008 we are posting the new list on the Japanese studies Wiki —
https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Nihon_no_Bijutsu#Nihon_no_Bijutsu:_Translation_of_titles_of_each_issue

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Bibliographic Resources:
Western Language Materials for Japanese Studies
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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.
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For the sidebar I selected the following online Japanese dictionaries and related websites. Are these good choices? Any suggestions? Thanks for any comments or suggestions! — MD Continue reading

In the past few years I have been purchasing many Japanese films Continue reading

OhioLINK’s Digital Media Center includes digitized versions of educational films Continue reading

One of the “treasures” of Ohio State’s collections supporting research on the Japanese language is Nihongogaku ronsetsu shiryo 日本語学論説資料 or NRS Continue reading