A Guide to Japanese Studies Resources

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Recent and current issues of 1000 newspapers from 82 countries in 39 languages. Page view images, audio files, and more. 3 concurrent users, so please sign out when finished. Newspapers from Japan (International Herald Tribune, Okinawa Times, Sports Nippon, The Wall Street Journal Asia) are also available.

Major U.S./world publications (English/non-English), news wires/transcripts, TV-radio-broadcast transcripts, blogs, web publications, legal, university, healthcare, media reviews, etc.

A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press, 1990 - present.

An electronic library containing the Associated Press's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. Access to this site is limited to WU students, faculty, and staff.

Asahi Shimbun database from its first edition in 1879 (Meiji 12) to today, including Gaichiban, Overseas editions in the colonial period (1935-45), and Asahi Graph, a pictorial magazine (1923-56).

Full-text search for major newspapers in Japan. (Most of the coverage starts after 2002.)

Formerly called NDL Index of Japanese Newspapers (全国新聞総合目録データベース): Searchable database for finding Japanese library holdings for regional and national newspapers; includes information on range of holdings and library contact information.

Kobe University's newspaper clippings collection (end of Meiji to 1970).

Contains about 600 kawaraban from the Edo era, and about 400 samples (280 unique items) of nishiki-e from the Meiji period.

The largest online archive of open-access, full-image Japanese American and other overseas Japanese newspapers in Asia and South America (1887-1975), provided by The Japanese Diaspora Initiative at Hoover Institution.

Links to 12 local news media websites

Links to websites for local & trade newspapers (新聞サイトのリンク集)