region: Japan

New Voices in Japanese Studies

Contemporary Japan

China Families incl. Historic newspapers published in China available Open Access online

This site allows you to search across 60,000 names of men and women who lived, worked or died in China, between the 1850s and 1940s. The information is drawn from ten different sources, and you can search each one of these individually, but you can also search across all of them. There are many Chinese […]

East Asia Digital Library (EADL)

The East Asia Digital Library (EADL) is a portal site focusing on East Asian cultural and scientific resources. The National Library of Korea and the National Diet Library, Japan develop and operate the site collaboratively. The EADL makes primary materials about East Asia available free of charge and in multilingual format. In addition to simple […]

Bibliography of Asian Studies

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) is the most comprehensive Western-language bibliographical database for research on East, Southeast and South Asia. Published by the Association for Asian Studies, it covers all subjects with special focus on the humanities and social sciences. Red more in this information leaflet on BAS.  

KinoDen – Japanese e-books

KinoDen is a new digital library service providing access to  more than 10.000 academic e-books in Japanese, in a wide variety of disciplines and from various Japanese publishing houses.  Full-text search is enabled. You can request that we purchase titles for common access for all NNC institutions by using the purchase button. Search tip: When […]

IRDB – Institutional Repository Database (Japan)

IRDB collects and provides  meta data to a wide range of material in Japanese academic repositories, including theses, journal articles, books, conference papers, research reports, soft ware, etc. The metadata harvested by IRDB is provided to the following systems, in order that the content registered in IR will be used in each system: Academic information platforms […]

Image System for Periodicals of Japanese Ruled Period

The National Central Library of Taiwan has a collection of  more than 160,000 volumes of original Japanese books which were originally stored in the Governor’s Office of the Japanese Government during the Japanese Governing Period and the Southern Archives.  The library also holds a collection of 60.000 volumes from the Ming and Qing dynasties. The […]

Image System for Books of Japanese Ruled Period

The National Central Library of Taiwan has a collection of  more than 160,000 volumes of original Japanese books which were originally stored in the Governor’s Office of the Japanese Government during the Japanese Governing Period and the Southern Archives. The library also holds a collection of 60.000 volumes from the Ming and Qing dynasties. The […]

Asian newspapers – Japan

Via PressReader’s collection you can read a number of Asian newspapers and magazines on the day they are published. In the new version PressReader it is possible to set your own account and customize the outlook of PressReader by choosing specific countries, newspapers and topics. You can also set up e-mail alerts.