Subscribed Database

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This is the database of the periodicals and the newspapers of the Prange collection.
It consists of all covers, contents, authors, titles of articles, etc. of the periodicals (13,787 titles). It also consists all titles, start of articles, advertisements of the members of the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association and they are all accessible for search.

*Please refer to the following URL for the Prange collection.

About the Prange Collection

URL 　　http://20thdb.jp/top

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Online database of  Asahi shimbun  articles. Complete search and full text of articles and images of pages and clippings. Accessible only within Nichibunken.

• Articles 1985-
• Asahi Shimbun Main edition (from August 1984)
• Asahi Shimbun coverage (from June 1988)
• The Asahi Shimbun Digital (from May 2011)
• AERA (weekly magazine, printed in gravure; beginning with the inaugural issue in May 1988)
• 週刊朝日 (Shukan Asahi) (weekly; news pages, beginning with the April issue, 2000)
• Digitized Archive 1879-1999
• Image Database of Meiji and Taisho Period (from the inaugural issue in 1879 to 1926; Tokyo and Osaka editions) 
• Image Database of Pre-war Showa Period (1926-1945)
• Image Database of Post-WWII Showa Period (1945-1989) 
• Image Database of Regional pages (from 1935 to 1945)
• Overseas Editions (from 1935 to 1945)
• Contemporary Words Chiezo
• English-language News Database
• Who's Who Database (Jinbutsu database)
• Asahi Graph
• Historical Photo Archive (historical photo archive; some 10,000 photographs taken from around the time of the Manchurian Incident in 1931 to the defeat in World War II in 1945)

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Database for source materials in East Asian studies published in journals and books published in Western languages. Includes more than 610,000 articles mainly in the humanities and social sciences.

Using the Service

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CiNii is the database service provided by Japan’s National Institute of Informatics (NII) academic searching for essays, theses, books, journals, etc. Some content is available online free of charge.

Using the Service

URL 　　https://ci.nii.ac.jp/

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Contains Dazai Osamu-related documents in the collection of the Museum of Modern Japanese Literature, including diaries, notebooks, and manuscripts and drafts in his own hand, as well as his school textbooks. The database allows for viewing of digital images and bibliographical notes and keyword search is available for the full texts of first publications.

URL           http://j-dac.jp/dazai

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The following EBSCO-interfaced eBooks are searchable and may be read in their entirety. Please search under the following titles:

• Nihon zuihitsu taisei  (105 items)
• Iwanami Kōza Nihon Rekishi  series  (vols. 1 to 22)
• Japan Study Nihon kenkyū jinbutsu jiten  (Japan Study A Biographical Dictionary of Japanology)
• Nihon kenkyū tosho mokuroku 1985-2004 : Sekai no naka no nihon  (Catalog of books about Japan written by foreigners 1985-2004)
• Bunken mokuroku nihonron nihonjinron, 1996-2006  (Bibliography on Japanology 1996-2006)
• Bunken mokuroku nihonron nihonjinron no 50nen 1945-1995  (Bibliography on Japanology 1945-1995)
• Gendaigoyaku Shōyūki
• Nihon no iro jiten
• Ōchō no kasaneiro jiten
• Nihon no monyō zuten

URL 　　http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?profile=ehost&defaultdb=nlebk

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This is the digital archive of the English-language weekly  Japan Chronicle , which was published in Kobe from 1902 to 1940 and then absorbed by the  Japan Times .A digital archive edition of  Japan Chronicle  is available from the inaugural issue in 1902 to the final issue in 1940 and including also its predecessor, the  Kobe Chronicle , published 1900 to 1901.

  ・Contents: "Japan Chronicle"weekly edition (including Commercial Supplement)
  ・Format: Full page image *Full text searchable
  ・Number of pages: Approximately 75,000 pages
  ・Language: English
  ・Original: Collection ofSchool of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and TheBritish Library

URL 　　http://primarysources.brillonline.com/browse/japan-chronicle

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Japan Knowledge is an online database containing the Nihon daihyakka zensho (Encyclopedia Nipponica) and more than other 30 titles in the humanities and social sciences, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, economic journals, and books (Toyo Bunko series).

Major databases contained

• JapanKnowledge Lib
  "Kokushi daijiten (Encyclopedia of Japanese History)", " Nihon kokugo daijiten (Shogakukan’s Japanese Dictionary, Second Edition) ", " Kadokawa Kogo Daijiten (The Great Dictionary of Archaic Japanese)", " Nihon rekishi chimei taikei (Compendium on Historical Place Names of Japan)",  "Nihon daihyakka zensho (Encyclopedia Nipponica)", " Gendai yogo no kiso chishiki (Basic Modern Japanese Terms) ", " Random House Ei-Wa daijiten (Shogakukan Random House English-Japanese Dictionary)",  "Toyo Bunko series" , " Shinpen Nihon koten bungaku zenshu (New Collections of Japanese Classical Literature) ",  " Shinpen Kokka Taikan ", "Dai Kanwa Jiten  (Great Chinese-Japanese Character Dictionary) "  etc.
• JKBooks
   "Taiyo (The Sun)", "The ORIENTAL ECONOMIST", "Jinbutsu Sosho", "Bungeishunju Archives", "Bungei Kurabu; Meiji-hen", "Dai-ichi Koto Gakko Koyukai Zasshi", "Fuzoku Gaho", "Gunsho Ruiju series", "Kobunso Taika Koshomoku", "Shintei Zoho Kokushi Taikei", "Shiryo Sanshu (First phase; from the Heian and Kamakura periods in the ancient records section)"
  

List of contents

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URL 　　https://japanknowledge.com/library/

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Digitized here is the content of the first newspaper titled the Japan Times, founded by a British publisher Charles Rickerby on September 8, 1865, three decades prior to the launch of today’s Japan Times.The content includes valuable articles contributed by the widely influential British diplomat Ernest Satow.Some of these articles were translated into a Japanese, printed in booklet form the year they were published, and were circulated among young samurai activists.Titled “Eikoku sakuron” (British Policy), the articles are said to have contributed greatly to the Meiji Restoration.Other articles by Satow include his translation of excerpts from the diaries of Japanese delegates to Europe.His articles offer vivid glimpses of his times.

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Database of Newspapers and Journals Published in the 1912–1949 Republic of China Period (Shanghai Library Collection)
Contains Chinese and English newspapers and journals published by Zilin Yanghang, the newspaper company founded by the British merchant Henry Sherman in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Included are  the North-China Herald ,  the North-China Daily News ,  the Chinese Shipping List & Advertiser ,  Hu bao ,  Han bao ,  Xiao xian Bao , and  the North-China Desk-Hong List . Articles are searchable by title, author’s name, author’s affiliation, and newspaper/journal title. Photo captions and advertisements are also searchable.

Using the Service (Chinese)