Subject guides: Japanese Studies: Subject websites

Websites for both Chinese and Japanese Studies

AAA (The Asia Art Archive)
This has been collecting material related to contemporary Asian art since its inception in 2000 and currently holds one of the most comprehensive collections of material in the field, with over 20,000 titles accessible to the public free of charge, via the physical space, and searchable from the online catalogue. The highlight of the AAA collection is materials of the future: documenting contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990.

H-Asia
The primary purposes of H-Asia are to enable historians and other Asia scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to test new ideas and share comments and tips on teaching. H-Asia is a particularly appropriate.
SPICE - The Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education - prrovides annotated lists of recommended Web sites about Japan arranged by topic

Japan Reference
This is another powerful site providing useful information about Japanese society, culture and travel. You will definitely find it helpful for your language learning as well!

The National Diet Library (NLD)
The sole national library in Japan. About 506,000 digitized materials (books, periodicals and sound sources of the historical recordings collections) are being added to the digital archives of the NDL. More digitized items will be available inside the NDL soon.

CiNii : articles
This is a combined resource of the two : CiNii Articles and CiNii Books. CiNii Articles is a database service that enables searching of information on academic papers published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database.