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Online -- Selected Reference Resources

Print -- Christopher Center Reference, 2nd floor

Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan Ref.DS 805 .K633 1983
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture Ref. DS 822.5 .E516 2002
Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History Ref. DS 834 .B56 1982

Encyclopedia of Modern Asia Ref. DS4 .L48 2002
Encyclopedia of Asian History Ref. DS31 .E53 1988
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations Ref. G63 .W67 2001 v. 4
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life Ref. GN333 .W67 1998 v. 3

Bibliography of Asian Studies Includes articles and book chapters about all parts of Asia [more...]

Historical Abstracts The main database for world history [more...]

Project Muse Full-text, online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers [more...]

JSTOR Contains full text of some history, anthropology, and Asian studies journals, but NOT the most recent [more...]

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Subject Headings (use for Subject searching in Galileo & WorldCat)
  Japan -- History -- 20th century
  Japan -- History -- 1945-
  Japan -- Civilization -- 20th century
  Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
  Japan -- Civilization -- Western influences
  Japan -- Politics and Government -- 1945-

WorldCat resources available for loan from other libraries worldwide [more...]

GeNii: Scholarly and Academic Information Portal
   http://ge.nii.ac.jp/genii/jsp/index-e.jsp

JGuide: Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources
   http://jguide.stanford.edu/

Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies
   http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/contents/intro.html

Intute: Japanese Studies
   http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/japanese/

Japan Focus
   http://japanfocus.org/

A Country Study: Japan
   http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/jptoc.html#jp0013

Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
   http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html

Portals of the World: History: Japan
   http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/asian/japan/resources/japan-history.html

H-Japan (scholarly discussion group - good for book reviews)
   http://www.h-net.org/~japan/

MLA Handbook for writers of research papers, 6th ed. Reference, Stacks LB2369 .G53 2003
Chicago manual of style, 15th ed. Reference, Reserve, Stacks Z253 .U69 2003

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