Kokugo nenkan

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This is an exhaustive bibliography for Japanese scholarship in Japanese linguistics, Japanese language pedagogy, and Japanese philology:

• Kokugo nenkan. Tōkyō: Shūei Shuppan, 1954-.

国語年鑑. 東京: 秀英出版, 1954-.

PL501 .K588

If you are looking for something in particular (an author, a title, a keyword, etc.) you might want to use the CD ROM index, for example the one from 2004:

• Kokugo nenkan. Tōkyō: Shūei Shuppan, 1954-.

国語年鑑. 東京: 秀英出版, 1954-.

PL501 .K588 2004 CDROM

The CD ROM starts an Internet Exlplorer program that presents a simple user interface. The CD ROM for 2004 gives you access to four files, listed on the left of the browser screen:

1. a .pdf file of bibliographic entries for books for 2004 (第2部･文献・刊行図書一覧)
2. a .pdf file of bibliographic entries for magazine articles for 2004 (第2部･文献・雑誌文献一覧)
3. a .txt file of bibliographic entries for books for 2004 (第2部･文献・刊行図書一覧) [delimited by tabs]
4. a .txt file of bibliographic entries for magazine articles for 2004 (第2部･文献・雑誌文献一覧) [delimited by tabs]

If you want to return the CD to the library, I suggest copying the data in at least one of its available forms onto your hard drive.

You can select the files directly off of the browser screen and copy them onto your hard drive, but you'll get an individual folder containing a copy of the source file and a copy of the browser page. Neither the browser interface nor the individual folder are actually necessary. You can consolidate the source files into one folder.

If you select and open the .pdf files, you can copy these files directly onto your hard drive using the copy function on Adobe. You can use the "Search" function on Adobe Reader to find what you're looking for.

If you select and open the .txt files, you can "select all," "copy," then "paste" into a Windows Notepad file and "save" on your hard drive. The resulting .txt files are now suitable for exporting into a database file like Microsoft Excel. In the data's raw form, you can use the "Find" function in Windows Notepad's "Edit" menu . However, in order to read the raw .txt file accurately you must count tabs in order to match each data entry to its corresponding field, and this grows more difficult the further down the page you get. Opening a database editor such as Microsoft Excel and importing the data into a new file is much easier. You can use the Find function in Excel's "Edit" menu to perform searches.

I've taken one representative citation and lined the entries for the relevant fields up under their field headings here to give you an idea of what a citation looks like:

国語年鑑・雑誌　2004

1.題目番号	5.標題	7.筆者名	8.誌名	11.通巻	12.発行年	13.発行月	14.所在ページ
0006	日本語練習張・読貂	工藤 力男	成城国文学（成城国文学会）	19	2003	3	66-84

The 国語年鑑, while comprehensive, is only an organized list of bibliographic references. It does not provide the articles themselves. But it does provide you with sufficient information to request the articles you want from Interlibrary Loan.