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Background Information
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Jim Breen's Online Japanese Dictionary ServiceExtensive site with various search options. Students have gotten much use out of it.
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Denshi Jisho Online Japanese DictionaryDenshi Jisho is an easy-to-use and powerful online Japanese dictionary. It lets you find words, kanji and example sentences by searching in many ways.
The dictionaries are also interlinked so that you can check what the kanji in a word mean individually or what context a word can be used in. You can also look up kanji by the parts they contain. -
Tangorin.Tangorin is a free online English ⇆ Japanese dictionary with a fast, responsive interface that helps you search through over million entries with various look up methods.
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Space ALCIt’s a dictionary service made by translators for translators and as such, it features a fountain full of superb sentences using your unknown word in context. As a one-button search tool and with the page entirely in Japanese it can at first be deceptive, but take the plunge and you will be rewarded with real Japanese example sentences and a dictionary that can even handle some medical and business terms! [MG review]
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Rikai-chanA wonderful little add-on for Firefox which enables you to view both the reading and English translation of virtually any kanji or kanji compound that you come across on the internet. You won’t be able to use it for extremely long or complicated words, but if you’re struggling to remember the meaning of a kanji, the readings for it or just want to get a general gist of the sentences on the page you are looking at, you’d be hard pressed to find a better solution. Quick note: If you need a detailed view of a kanji, hold down the shift key.
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KotobankIn Japanese. Searches many dictionaries and encyclopedias at once.
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Literature Resources from GaleCall Number: Online DatabaseLiterature criticism, biographies, work and topic overviews, reviews, and full text of many literary works - all searchable at the same time and returned in lists organized according to the type of research needs they serve.
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Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater byCall Number: EbookPublication Date: 2009
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Japanese Literature in TranslationMaintained by the Japan Foundation. This database covers Japanese literary works translated into other languages,
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JLPP: Japanese Literature Publishing ProjectJLPP, started in 2002, is a project of the Agency for Cultural Affairs to promote the awareness and popularization of modern Japanese literature to the world. Under this program, works of Japanese literature published in the past 150 years are selected by a committee of professional members, translated into various languages, and published overseas.
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Translations published in "Monumenta Nipponica"Translations have been a major feature of MN since the inaugural issue in 1938. This index lists all the translations that have been published in the journal in the ensuing decades, both those identified as such in the title and those appearing under another name. The focus is on integral works and selections from longer pieces, but an effort has also been made to include substantial excerpts cited in articles. The majority of the translations are from Japanese into English, which since 1963 has been the sole language of publication, but early issues included many translations from Japanese into other Western languages, particularly German. The index also lists translations from works in languages other than Japanese, such as Chinese and Portuguese, that have appeared in the journal.
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The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol 2: Heian Japan byCall Number: EbookPublication Date: 2008This volume covers the Heian period, the golden age of the Japanese imperial court. It emphasizes political history, the land system, provincial administration, the capital and its society, the acceptance of Buddhism and religious practices.
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The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol. 4: Early Modern Japan byCall Number: EbookPublication Date: 2008
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The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol. 5: Nineteenth Century byCall Number: EbookPublication Date: 2008
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The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol. 6: Twentieth Century byCall Number: EbookPublication Date: 2008
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Japanese Language and Literature: Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese byPublication Date: W&L has 2001 - present
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Japanese Studies Research Guide from Duke UniversityExcellent guide with many resources. Note that W&L does not have access to all listed resources!
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Japan Studies Research Guide from Yale UniversityExcellent guide with many resources. Note that W&L does not have access to all listed resources!
Literature Research
Use these databases to find articles on your topic.
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Academic Search CompleteExcellent starting point. Multidisciplinary article database offers access to more than 16,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers, including over 15,000 peer-reviewed journals.
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JSTORA digital archive of over 1,100 important scholarly journals. All issues of each journal are included in full-text except for the most recent 2-to-5 years, based on JSTOR's agreement with the journal's publisher.
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Project MuseFull-text access to about 600 journals from academic publishers.
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Historical AbstractsMost comprehensive database of literature about history outside of North America. Comprised of about 700,000 citations of articles (from about 1,700 journals of history and social science), books, book reviews, dissertations, and other materials in 40 languages on history since about 1450 of areas outside the United States and Canada. The database is updated monthly.
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MLA International BibliographyThe MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature.