LibGuides: Japanese Studies: Recommended Resources

*Note: For Japanese Language reference, please see the Japanese Language Learning page.

The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History by Gary Allinson
Call Number: DS881.9 .A75 1999
ISBN: 9780231111447
Publication Date: 1999-07-27
A learning resource for students of Japanese society and for lay readers seeking to better understand the economic powerhouse of East Asia during the 150 years that have catapulted it to international preeminence.
Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society by Victoria Bestor (Editor); Theodore C. Bestor (Editor); Akiko Yamagata (Editor)
Call Number: DS822.5 .R68 2013
ISBN: 9780415709149
Publication Date: 2013-07-18
Focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
The A to Z of United States-Japan Relations by John Van Sant; Peter Mauch; Yoneyuki Sugita
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780810875555
Publication Date: 2010-03-01
Traces this 150 year relationship through a chronology, an introduction, appendices, a bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on key persons, places, events, institutions, and organizations.
The Cambridge History of Japan by Delmer M. Brown (Editor); John Whitney Hall (Contribution by); Marius B. Jansen (Contribution by); Madoka Kanai (Contribution by); Denis Twitchett (Contribution by)
Call Number: DS835 .C36 1988
ISBN: 9780521223522
Publication Date: 1993-07-30
Spans the beginnings of human existence to the end of the eighth century, focusing on the thousand years between 300 BC and 784, the end of the Nara period.
Sources of Japanese Tradition by Wm. Theodore de Bary (Editor); Carol Gluck (Editor); Arthur Tiedemann (Editor)
Call Number: DS821 .S68 2001
ISBN: 9780231121392
Publication Date: 2002-04-10
History, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion in the Land of the Rising Sun.
A Dictionary of Buddhism by Damien Keown
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780198605607
Publication Date: 2003-07-10
Covers both historical and contemporary issues in Buddhism and includes all Buddhist schools and cultures.
Historical Dictionary of Shinto by Stuart D. B. Picken
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780810871724
Publication Date: 2010-12-28

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Oxford Reference Online contains hundreds of dictionary, language reference, subject reference and companion works published by Oxford University Press.
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Biography Reference Center This link opens in a new window
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Biography Reference Center offers a collection of more than 461,000 full-text biographies, including the complete full-text run of Biography Today and Biography.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online This link opens in a new window
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Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. DLB Complete Online includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Series. UMSL owns volumes 1 (1978) - 362 (2011). Gale's new interface offers improved navigation and searching options. Training videos are available.
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A collection of reference works covering a wide array of topics including business, health, history, humanities, and the sciences.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR contains articles and books, usually at least 3-5 years old, from scholarly sources. They also have some primary resource collections. For more recent material, use Discover@UMSL or other individual databases.
Journal Collections
Arts & Sciences I – XV
Life Sciences
Business IV
Hebrew Journals
Ireland
Public Health
Lives of Literature

Reports & Research
Security Studies
Sustainability

Primary Sources
19th Century British Pamphlets (Bristol Selected Pamphlets, Cowen Tracts, Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection, Hume Tracts, Knowsley Pamphlet Collection, LSE Selected Pamphlets, Manchester Selected Pamphlets, Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection)
World Heritage Sites: Africa (Reference)
Struggle for Freedom: Southern Africa (Reference)
Global Plants (Reference)

CiNii
Search portal for Japanese academic library materials. Includes both Japanese content and English materials published in Japan. Multidisciplinary with a focus on humanities and social science research.

National Diet Library Digital Collections (Japan) This link opens in a new window
The NDL Digital Collections enables a user to search and view a variety of resources, collected and stored by the National Diet Library of Japan.
* Ensure "Available Online" is checked. Some elements have been translated into English; most are in Japanese. *
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Indexes critical materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Covers over 3,000 journals and series, books, working papers and proceedings, and bibliographies.
A related database is the MLA Directory of Periodicals which lists advertising, submission and contact information for over 3,700 journals (but does NOT index the contents of these journals).
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Project MUSE's Standard Collection provides full-text access to scholarly journal titles, primarily in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
You can look for material in two ways: "Search" to find a particular topic. By default only available content is shown. "Browse" to peruse all book and journal titles and tables of contents abstracted in MUSE. You can also uncheck the option "Only content I have full access to" when viewing your results to find abstracts of additional material.
If an item is not available through Project MUSE, it may be available in other UMSL collections or through Interlibrary Loan. Click the "Find Full-Text" link to check if the Libraries own a journal full text through another source (online or print). If the item is a book, check the UMSL Library Catalog under the book title or book author.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with several thousand full-text periodicals, most of which are peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for many more journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

This resource is partially funded by MOREnet, the Missouri Research and Education Network.