Japanese Studies
Library Resource Guide
Library Resource Guide
Japanese Studies books are shelved by subject according to Library of Congress classification call numbers: DS 801-897 Japan History
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New Titles
Omi, Nakano, D. Y., & Yamashita, J. (2019). Japanese American millennials : rethinking generation, community, and diversity . Temple University Press. General Collection E184.J3 J3385 2019
Samuels. (2019). Special duty : a history of the Japanese intelligence community . Cornell University Press. General Collection JQ1629.I6 S26 2019
Robertson. (2021). Scripting Japan : orthography, variation, and the creation of meaning in written Japanese ([First edition].). Routledge. General Collection PL528 .R63 2021
Miller. (2021). Historical dictionary of modern Japanese literature and theater (Second edition.). Rowman & Littlefield. General Collection PL716 .M47 2021
DiNitto. (2019). Fukushima fiction : the literary landscape of Japan’s triple disaster . University of Hawaiʻi Press. General Collection PL721.F87 D56 2019
Library Collections
David, V. (2006). Kanji handbook . Tuttle. [UH Hilo Access] Also available in print: Reference Collection PL677.6 .D38 2006 - Library Use Only
Japan video topics series. (2000 - 2020). Ministry of Foreign Affairs?]. Audio/Visual DVD - DVD DS12 - Circulation Desk
Mason, Penelope E., and Donald Dinwiddie. History of Japanese Art . 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. Print. General Collection N7350 .M26 2005
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. 1st ed. Tokyo ;: Kodansha, 1983. Print. General and Reference Collections DS805 .K633 1983
Koine, Yoshio. Kenkyusha’s New English-Japanese Dictionary . 5th ed. Tokyo, Japan: Kenkyusha, 1980. Print. General and Reference Collections PL679 .K39 1980
Louis-Frédéric, and Käthe. Roth. Japan Encyclopedia . Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. Print. Reference Collection DS821 .F7313 2002 - Library Use Only
Pukui, Mary Kawena et al. Hawaiian-Japanese dictionary = Hawaigo-Nihongo jiten . Tōkyō: Chikura Shobō, 1990. Print. General and Hawaiian Collections PL6446 .P8416 1990
Totman, Conrad D. A History of Japan . 2nd ed. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2013. [UH Hilo Access]
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Journals in print are shelved alphabetically by title in the Periodical Backfiles room on the upper level of the library.
E-journal articles can be searched by keyword using LibCat or a database.
Japan forum (Oxford, England : Online). (1989). Routledge. [UH Hilo Access]
Japanese journal of religious studies (Online). (1974). International Institute for the Study of Religions. [UH Hilo Access]
Japanese language and literature (Online). (2001). Association of Teachers of Japanese. [UH Hilo Access] Also available in print: PERIODICAL BACKFILES
Journal of Japanese studies (Online). (1974). Society for Japanese Studies. [UH Hilo Access] Also available in print: PERIODICAL BACKFILES
Monumenta Nipponica (Online). (1938). Sophia University. [UH Hilo Access] Also available in print: PERIODICAL BACKFILES
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