Japanese Studies *: English Language Resources on Japan

A growing full text collection of core social science, humanities, and science journals and books.

Provides access to the complete content of hundreds of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. As of January 2012, Project MUSE has added thousands of university press ebooks to its collection. However, USC does not necessarily have access to all of them via Project MUSE. If you are interested in one of these titles, please search the general library catalog to see if we have access.

This bibliography is intended for students and scholars interested in any aspect, discipline or sub-region of Asia. Through its extensive bibliographical coverage, it is an excellent means for discovering citations and the full-text of Western-language journal articles, review articles, conference proceedings and chapters in edited volumes and Festschriften published anywhere in the world that deal with East, Southeast and South Asia and with the overseas Asian communities.

Several hundred journals that focus on Asia are indexed in the BAS. Many of the more important ones are promptly indexed once they become available. Articles on Asia-related topics from selected journals that do not deal primarily with Asia also are included. In addition, some special projects – among them one that focused on journals on Southeast Asia dating as far back as 1779 – have contributed further records to the BAS database. Provded by EBSCO.

- A reference and e-book database provided by NetAdvance. Contains many important dictionaries and encyclopedias, some of which can be searched in English as well as Japanese.
- List of contents: http://japanknowledge.com/en/contents/

Contains numerous articles on Japanese history, literature, and religion which provide general overviews of existing scholarly literature and annotated bibliographies of key resources divided by thematic topics.

The Japan Times is the major English language newspaper in Japan. The digital archive includes every issue of the newspaper published between 1897 and 2015.

Cambridge Archive Editions Online presents many thousands of original documents of the National Archives (UK) represented in facsimile, including numerous maps, on the national heritage and political development of countries. Material on Japan includes political & economic reports 1906 - 1970.

The Seoul Press (publ. 1907-1937) was Japan’s Korean news flagship, its mission to validate the natural justice of Japanese imperialism in Korea, and Japan as the redeeming, organising and modernising force in East Asia. the Seoul Press represented the Japanese administration of Korea to the world.