
Japanese-Language Materials
Institutions, Libraries, or Finding Aids
(updated July 2009)
In Japan
Japanese Diplomatic Archives, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
http://www.mofa.go.jp/about/hq/record/index.html
Kyoto University Library
http://www.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
National Diet Library (Kokuritsu kokkai toshokan)
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/index.html
Directory of Libraries in Japan
http://www.jla.or.jp/link/univ.html
Outside Japan
East Asian Library Websites in North America
http://wason.library.cornell.edu/CEAL/CEALmemberhomepages.htm
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
British Library
http://www.bl.uk/
Cambridge University
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Departments/
University Library
King’s College Library
http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/library
Columbia University
C. V. Starr East Asian Library
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/eastasian/index.html
Cornell University
http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/
Council on East Asian Libraries
http://www.eastasianlib.org/
Harvard-Yenching Library
http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvard-yenching/
Harvard University, Reischauer Institute, Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs/dccj/index.html
Hoover Institution
Stanford University
http://www.hoover.org/hila/
See Julia Tung, The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945: Materials Added since 1984 to the East Asian Collection, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (New York: International Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the War of Resistance, 1995); and Michiko Kiyohara, China Watching by the Japanese: Reports and Investigations from the First Sino-Japanese War to the Unification of China under the Communist Party: A Checklist of Holdings in the East Asian Collection, Hoover Institution (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1987).
Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/
Princeton University, East Asian Collection
http://eastasianlib.princeton.edu/
Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/
Sino-Japanese Relations (University of California, Santa Barbara)
http://www.chinajapan.org/
Sino-Japanese Studies (SJS) was conceived as a journal devoted to studies of China and Japan together, irrespective of discipline or time period. For many that would take the form of comparative Sino-Japanese research, while for others that meant actual Sino-Japanese interactions. Everyone involved has been committed to fostering this sub-field which at once both covers both the China and the Japan fields while, at the same time, examines where these two meet.”
Subject Resources for Asian Studies (University of British Columbia)
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/subjects/subjpage1.cfm?id=154
University of British Columbia, Library
http://www.library.ubc.ca/
University of California, Berkeley
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/
University of Chicago Library
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/easia/
University of Michigan Library
http://www.lib.umich.edu/asia/
University of Toronto
Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Libraryhttp://www.library.utoronto.ca/east/
University of Washington
http://www.lib.washington.edu/east-asia/
Yale University
http://www.library.yale.edu/eastasian/
See also papers
from the January 2000 conference in Tokyo, especially The
Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945: A Brief Survey on Japanese Sources,
by Haruo Iguchi, Doshisha University (pdf
format--requires free Adobe
Acrobat Reader).