Japanese Studies

A home for the discovery of digitised material and research outputs from the University of Cambridge and beyond. The unique and distinctive collections can be openly accessed.

The CDDP Video Series by NCC (North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources) offers instructional videos on freely available resources and cutting-edge projects related to Japanese Studies, highlighting useful tools and best practices.

NINJAL was born as a comprehensive research organization for the national language in 1948. It became the Inter-University Research Institute Corporation, "National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics" in October 2009.

digital resources on Japanese Culture from all over the world. More than a million items are collected for this platform to inspire novel applications.

An open -access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, and slides of colonial Taiwan (1900-45) and occupied Japan (1947-52). The East Asia Image Collection (EAIC) is an open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, rare books and slides under the general editorship of Paul D. Barclay, Professor of History at Lafayette College, in partnership with staff at Digital Scholarship Services and Special Collections & College Archives.

Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.

This focus on social, political, and economic change from the Meiji (1868–1911) to post–World War II reconstruction (1945–52) periods in Japan and overseas Japanese communities. It includes the HOJI SHINBUN DIGITAL COLLECTIONS, the world’s largest open-access full-image digital collection of Japanese newspapers published in North America.

The Japanese Censorship Collection contains 1,327 marked-up copies of censored monographs and galley proofs for approximately 1,100 titles, mostly from the 1920s and 1930s.

It contains roughly 2,300 manuscript, woodblock, and copperplate maps of Japan and the world, ranging in date from the seventeenth century into the modern era.

Full-text database of 500,000+ newspaper-clippings from the early 1910s to 1970, created by Kobe University’s Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration.

CODH aggregates, processes and delivers humanities knowledge from Japan to the world through collaboration across organizations and countries. It offers various data sets including per-modern Japanese texts, character shapes, Edo cooking receipts etc.

Containing materials throughout Japanese history including classic maps, imperial rescripts, constitutions, and other cultural properties.

An online interactive database which Includes 129 Notable Japanese Collections in North America.

The NDL Gallery features 24 digital exhibitions of the NDL's unique collections with easy-to-understand explanations.

Roughly 7,000 documents consist of personal papers from members of the prosecution and defence sections, official IMTFE (The International Military Tribunal for the Far East) records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other related trial materials.