Research Guides: Japanese Studies Resource: Online Resources During COVID-19

Newspapers, Newswires, and Periodicals

Factiva
A global news monitoring and search engine powered by Dow Jones. Includes National and regional Japanese language newspapers are included, for example the Daily Yomiuri, Mainichi Shinbun, Nikkei Asian Review, Sankei Shinbun, The Nikkei Weekly, and The Chūnichi Shinbun.
Press Display (Press Reader)
Offers current issues of periodicals in the original form from all over the world. This includes roughly 40 Japanese periodicals from Mainichi Shinbun, Elle Japan, and Waraku (和樂）
Nexis Uni (LexisNexis)
Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. These include Japanese language newswires and news services like News goo, Hochi Shinbun, Niko niko, and Yahoo! Japan.
Asahi Shimbun English website
The Asahi Shimbun is a major Japanese daily newspaper. This is the free platform for their English website.
Japan Today
Homepage for the English newspaper Japan Today.
For more, please see "Newspapers and Archive"
Our more comprehensive guide to current and historical newspapers from or about Japan.

Newspaper Archives

Japan Times Historical Archives
Japan Times is Japan’s oldest English-language newspaper and remains the only independent English-language newspaper in Japan today. The entire run from March 1897 (Meiji 30) to 2014 is available in full-text and fully searchable.
Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries
A newspaper database for Asahi Shinbun, one of the major newspapers in Japan. It covers from the first issue in 1879 to the current issue. It also includes articles from the weekly magazines Aera, Shukan Asahi, and from the annual new-word encyclopaedia Chiezo for recent years.
For more, please see "Newspapers and Archive"
Our more comprehensive guide to current and historical newspapers from or about Japan.

Helpful Online Resources During the Current Pandemic

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has made it harder to utilize OSU's physical collection of Japanese Studies materials. However, students and researchers will find that we still have an abundance of electronic resources accessible from home. On this page, you will find links to our various online resources collected in one place. If you need help finding anything, please contact our Japanese Studies Librarian, Dr. Ann Marie Davis, at davis.5257@osu.edu.

Japanese eBook Libraries

KinoDen - Kinokuniya Digital Library
A digital library that provides browsing access to more than 10,000 academic e-book titles in Japanese. OSU has acquired full access to several hundred of these titles and has plans to purchase many more. Users can request new titles on KinoDen by using the purchase button within the platform itself or contacting the Japanese Studies Librarian (davis.5257@osu.edu).

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For more details about how to use this resource, please visit https://library.osu.edu/site/japanese/2020/04/01/introducing-kinoden-a-new-online-digital-library-offered-by-kinokuniya/
Maruzen eBook Library (MeL)
Managed by MARUZEN-YUSHOD. MeL has the largest selection of Japanese academic and educational eBooks and journal backfiles (some current), and is currently expanding its line of English academic and educational eBooks as well. Users may make requests the purchase of specific eBook titles (for full access) on this platform by contacting the Japanese Studies Librarian.

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For more information about this resources, please visit: https://library.osu.edu/site/japanese/2020/04/02/maruzen-ebook-library/
EBSCOHost eBook Collection
Currently OSU offers some 60 titles of Japanese-language eBooks and serials through EBSCOHost. These are primarily comprised of academic journals on Japanese linguistics and Okinawan Studies, and reference books and textbooks on Japanese language learning. The link in this guide filters for these specific titles.
HathiTrust
HathiTrust has opened emergency temporary access to copyrighted material in their digital library to member institutions with copies of those items in their physical collections. The link here provides access to Japanese language materials about Japan (with both limited and full-text access) within the collection.

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To learn more about this arrangement, please visit: https://library.osu.edu/news/hathitrust-provides-emergency-temporary-access-service-to-copyrighted-books

Reference - Dictionaries, Encyclopedia, and Handbooks

Japan Knowledge : Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Databases [Full Text]
Consists of fully searchable and browsable databases including English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries, Encyclopedia Nipponica and Encyclopedia of Japan, articles published in a weekly magazine Ekonomisuto, collection of Toyo bunko series and other visual and sound databases.
Kenkyusha Online Dictionary
An online database that allows cross-searching among Japanese-English and English-Japanese dictionaries and encyclopedias published by Kenkyusha and Sanseido.
For more, please see "References and General Resources"
This is our more comprehensive guide to online reference books, indexes, and digital collections for researchers and students of Japanese Studies.

Indexes to Japanese Language Articles

CiNII Articles
CiNii(Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator, pronounced like "sigh-knee") is a database service which can be searched for academic information of articles, books & Jjournals.
JAIRO - 学術機関リポジトリポータル
Japanese Institutional Repositories Online
国文学論文目録データベース Kokubungaku Ronbun Mokuroku Db (NIJL)
Database of research thesis in Japanese literature from National Institute of Japanese Literature.
NDL Search
National Diet Library's search system for books, articles, theses, news, and digitized materials within its holdings as well as throughout Japan, aggregating access to many databases and web sites.

Nichigai Web Service - admin
MAGAZINEPLUS: Index to articles in Japanese general interest and scholarly magazines/journals and other academic publications; BOOKPLUS: index of Japanese books published since 1925; and other databases.

NIhongo Kenkyu DB
「日本語研究・日本語教育文献データベース」 Index to articles on linguistics, Japanese language and language pedagogy. Comprises data from 『国語年鑑』and『日本語教育年鑑』.
Nihongogaku ronsetsu shiryō
日本語学論說資料 + previous title 国語学論說資料. These series reprint articles about Japanese language from various publications. There are indexes to each volume and CD-ROM cumulative indexes (see the library cataog). Info: https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Nihongogaku_ronsetsu_shiry%C5%8D

Streaming Media

Rekion
This historical collection consists of about 50,000 sound recordings of music, speeches, etc. on 78rpm records and metal discs from around 1900 to 1950. Approximately 4,900 of them are provided on the internet, while others are available only on the premises of the NDL and about 300 Rekion partner libraries in Japan and overseas (and OSU Libraries is one of them!)

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Managed by the National Diet Library, this collection contains recordings from wide-ranging genres including Japanese traditional music, folk music, rakugo, kabuki, classical music, opera, popular music, and speeches. Those that have expired copyright are freely available via this link. Note: Please be aware it may take some time for the music to stream at remote locations.
Asian Film Online
Asian Film Online offers a view of Asian culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. A selection of over 1,000 narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics.
Docuseek2
Essential documentary films for higher education. Exclusive academic streaming for films from renowned leaders in documentary film distribution. Videos are available in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other languages.
To search for specific language, users must use the "advanced search" function, located in the "Language" drop down box.
Kanopy
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that provides 12 million students and faculty with access to more than 26,000 films each year. It has an extensive library of both Japanese language titles and English titles related to Japanese Studies.
For more, please see "Movies and TV Drama"
This is our more comprehensive guide to online resources for researchers and scholars of Japanese movies and televised drama.

Japanese Studies Librarian and Assistant Professor

Ann Marie Davis

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