Information Literacy Resources: History

Kristina Troost, PhD
Course: Research Methods in Japanese Studies, 2005 Spring,
Duke University

JACAR

In English and Japanese. JACAR was established to provide through the Internet indexes to and digital images of historical records about modern Japan-Asia relations held (and available to the public) by Japanese national institutions. At present, these include records held by the National Archives of Japan, The Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and The National Institute for Defense Studies of the National Defense Agency. Materials included cover from early Meiji times through World War II.

Kindai Digital Library

Requires the installation of a free downloadable viewer to manipulate images and to print.
Can be searched by keyword and subject. It presently includes 35,000 titles, and is updated annually; the plan is to include all books published in the Meiji era (1868-1912) in Japan held in the National Diet Library, once they have obtained copyright clearance. At the moment, there are about 63,000 titles yet to be resolved.

Japanese History Journals at Duke

Survey Histories of Japan

• English language surveys
• Iwanami surveys
• General surveys
• Special time period or subject focus surveys
• Women's history
• Japan and Asia

Handbooks and Chronologies

1. Shinpan shakai rōdō undō dainenpyō 新版社会労働運動大年表。Hosei Daigaku Ohara Shakai Mondai Kenkyūjo hen
2. Dokusho annai "Meiji" o shiru hon 読書案内「明治」を知る本

Course Documents

Askew, David. "Oguma Eiji and Construction of the Modern Japanese National Identity." Social Science Japan Journal Vol 4., No. 1, pp. 111-116 2001