Japanese Studies

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Students interested in Japanese Studies at the Ohio State University should first visit the home pages of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the Institute for Japanese Studies, and the East Asian Studies Center.

A guide to the resources that the Ohio State University Libraries provides to support research and teaching about Japan is available at Japanese Collections.

An overview of pages developed to support Japanese Studies on this Wiki is maintained at References and resources: Japan. Contributions and comments are both welcome and anticipated!! To begin, fill out the form at Request an Account.

For specific areas of study, or for guidance with reference materials, see the sites listed below:

Contents 1 General 2 Arts and visual cultures 3 Humanities 4 Japanese-American Studies 5 Social and behavioral sciences 6 Special topics 6.1 Japanese company histories 6.2 Japanese local and regional cultures 6.3 Science and technology in Japan 7 More to come

General

• Bibliography of Asian Studies (Ohio State users only)

• Nichigai Web Service includes Bookplus, Magazineplus, Who II (Ohio State users only)

• Union List of Japanese Serials and Newspapers

• East Asian Information Literacy Project: Guidelines

• English Language Journals for Japanese Studies

• Japanese Language Journals

• Japanese Encyclopedia/Dictionary

Arts and visual cultures

• Japanese art history / Korean art history / Chinese art history
• Buddhist Art / Japanese architecture
• Manga / Japanese photograph / Japanese film / Japanese colors
• List of East Asian art history topics

Humanities

• Japanese history / Pilgrimage

• Japanese language / Classical Japanese literature / Linguistics: Japanese

• Modern Japanese literature / Japanese mystery novel / Japanese history novel

Japanese-American Studies

• Japanese-American internment

• Toyo Suyemoto Papers

Social and behavioral sciences

• Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948-1951: A Personal and Professional Memoir by John W. Bennett

• John B. Cornell Collection (n American anthropologist specializing in Japanese agriculture, ecology, social organization, agricultural policy, material culture, land tenure, social relations as affected by geography, outcaste society, and Japanese immigrants in Brazil)

• Informational Resources of Contemporary Social Issues

• Land Prices in Japan

• Demographic information of Japan

Special topics

Japanese company histories

• Ohio State University's Shashi Collection

• Japanese Company Histories Wiki

Japanese local and regional cultures

• History, Literature and Culture of Okinawa (reflecting the Leon K. and Sadae Yamamoto Walters collections at OSU Libraries)

• History, Literature and Culture of Saitama (Ohio's sister state in Japan)

Science and technology in Japan

• Climate, Water and Carbon Related Research in Japan

• NHK program: Project X

• Link to Nipponia

More to come

Disambiguation

In many cases 日本学科 is a reasonable equivalent for the term Japanese Studies. As an academic field conducted outside of Japan, Japanese Studies stresses proficiency in and knowledge about Japanese language as a first basic requirement for further research, for example, on the history and culture of Japan, the sciences, industries, and arts developed there, and the physical nature of its lands and peoples.

In contrast, the term 日本学 is more properly translated as Japanology (see Japanese language Wikipedia: 日本学 for discussion) and is less concerned with using the Japanese language as a medium for research and more concerned with things Japanese as objects of study. Japanese advances in medicine and technology with global application, for example, might be ignored by a Japanologist except insofar as said advances reveal something about Japan in particular.

For our purposes, Japanese Studies is meant to have a broader coverage than either of these terms in their usual senses. From here you can access

• Secondary resources and primary research on Japan (science, history, politics, technology, popular culture, etc.)
• General research by Japanese scientists, historians, anthropologists, economists, etc.
• Primary research on the Japanese experience and influence abroad (exploration, emigration, exports, Hollywood's portrayal of Japanese people, etc.)
• Primary resources on Japanese literature, art, film, music, theatre, sports, cuisine, etc.