ASIAN LIBRARY

 

Collections & Resources

 

Asian Studies on Campus

EALC
EAPS
CSAMES

Selected sites by Subjects

Anthropology  Art and Art History  Business and Economics  History  Linguistics  Literature  Photos

Political Science  Religious Studies  Sociology  Statistics  Theatre and Drama  Women and Gender


Anthropology

Japanese Society of Ethnology (日本民族学会)
National Museum of Ethnology (国立民族博物館)
Society for East Asian Anthropology

Art and Art History 

Tokyo National Museum (東京国立博物館)
Kyoto National Museum （京都国立博物館）
Museum Information Japan: artscape
Viewing Japanese Prints
Virtual Museum of Traditional Japanese Arts
Japan Ukiyoe Museum (日本浮世絵博物館)
Hokusai Museum （北斎館）
Hiroshige Museum of Art (広重美術館)
Nakagawa-machi Bato Hiroshige Museum of Art （那珂川馬頭広重美術館）
Hiroshige Museum of Art, Ena (中仙道広重美術館)
菱川師宣記念館
International Ukiyo-e Society (国際浮世絵学会)
Iwayama Urushi Art Museum （岩山漆芸美術館）

Business and Economics

Bank of Japan (日本銀行)
IDE-JETRO (日本貿易振興機構　アジア経済研究所)
Japan Center for Economic Research (日本経済研究センター)
Japan External Trade Organization (日本貿易振興会)
Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs (経済広報センター)
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry （経済産業省）
Ministry of Finance (財務省)
Mizuho Securities Research & Links - An English Language Resource on Japanese Finance
Nippon Keidanren (日本経済団体連合会)
Small and Medium Enterprise Information for Japan
Statistics, Web Japan
Tokyo Stock Exchange(東京証券取引所)

History

Bibliography of Japanese History up to 1912, Cambridge Faculty of Oriental Studies
Edo-Tokyo Museum (江戸東京博物館)
Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo (東京大学史料編纂所)
Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (アジア歴史資料センター)
Japanese Historical Maps, East Asian Library - University of California, Berkeley
Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
National Archives of Japan (国立公文書館)
National Museum of Japanese History (国立歴史民俗博物館)

Linguistics

Association of Teachers of Japanese
National Institute for Japanese Language (国立国語研究所）

Literature

Blue Sky Collection (青空文庫)
Denshi Tekisuto no Aru Basho Nihon Bungaku (電子テキストのある場所・日本文学)
Japanese Text Initiative, University of Virginia
National Institute of Japanese Literature (国文学研究資料館)

Photos

Database of Early Photographs (International Research Center for Japanese Studies) - requires registration
Early Photo Database (Historiographical Institute at University of Tokyo)
Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period (University of Nagasaki)
Mainichi Photo Bank
Peace Database (Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation) - requires registration

Political Science

Cabinet Office (内閣団)
e-Gov (電子政府の総合窓口)
Government Publications (政府刊行物)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外務省)
National Diet of Japan, House of Councillors （参議院）
National Diet of Japan, House of Representatives (衆議院)
Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet (首相官邸)
Proceedings of Meetings of the National Diet (国会会議録)
Statistics, Web Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Religious Studies

Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library
Society for the Study of Japanese Religions (日本宗教研究会)
Resources for East Asian Language and Thought, Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University
Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture (南山宗教文化研究所)

Sociology

Gender Information Site (内閣団　男女共同参画局)
Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Institute (部落解放・人権研究所)
Institute for Free Time Design (自由時間デザイン協会)
Japan Institute of Labor (日本労働研究機構)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (文部科学省)
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (厚生労働省)
National Institute for Educational Policy Research (国立教育政策研究所)
National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (国立社会保険・人口問題研究所)
Takazawa Collection, Japanese Social Movement Materials at the University of Hawaii

Statistics

Statistics, Web Japan
Statistics Bureau and Statistics Center (総務省・統計局、統計センター)

Theatre and Drama

Japanese Society for Theatre Research （日本演劇学会)

Women and Gender

National Women's Education Center (国立女性教育会館)
Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo (東京大学社会科学研究所)
Anti-Pornography & Prostitution Research Group (ポルノ・売春問題研究会)
The Center for the Advancement of Working Women (女性と仕事の未来館)
Gender Information Site, Gender Equality Bureau, Cabinet Office (内閣府男女共同参画局)
Institute for Women’s Studies, Tokyo Women’s Christian University (東京女子大学女性学研究所)
Kitakyushu Forum on Asian Women (アジア女性交流・研究フォーラム)
National Women's Education Center (国立女性教育会館)
Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University (お茶の水女子大学ジェンダー研究センター)
Tokai Foundation for Gender Studies (東海ジェンダー研究所)
Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace (女たちの戦争と資料平和館)
Women’s Online Media
Women’s Studies Society of Japan (日本女性学研究会)