Database

Title

Kenkyusha Online Dictionary
Access
Category Dictionaries
Location (on/off campus) On campus
SSL-VPN
Concurrent access 5
Content to be searched

17 kinds of Kenkyusha dictionaries and Daijirin dictionary.
Title

Oxford English Dictionary Online
Access
Category Dictionaries
Location (on/off campus) On campus
SSL-VPN
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

Oxford English Dictionary
Title

Nexis Uni
(Up-graded LexisNexis Academic)
Access
Category Newspapers
Location (on/off campus) On campus
SSL-VPN
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

Articles in newspapers, journals, business and law information. Mainly in English. Full text (some of them are only abstracts) can be accessible.
Title

Yomidas
Access
Category Newspapers
Location (on/off campus) On campus
SSL-VPN
Concurrent access 2
Content to be searched

About 1,500 million articles in the Yomiuri Newspaper from the first issue in 1874 to the latest.

User's guide ( PDF )

 
Title

Oxford Journals Online Archive Collection

(-1995)
Access
Category International Journals
Location (on/off campus) On campus
SSL-VPN
Concurrent access -
Content to be searched

Journals issued in 1995 and before by Oxford University Press. You can read the oldest, issued in 1849, and other great articles over five fields, such as Medical Science, Science, Social Science, Law, and Humanities.
Title

The Japan Times Archives
Access
Category Newspapers
Location (on/off campus) On campus
SSL-VPN
Concurrent access 1
Content to be searched

The oldest English-language newspaper in Japan. 
*New content is added every year.

These archives are useful for following research:

  • East Asia Geopolitics
  • History
  • Politics/History of Japan
  • Japanology
  • Military History
  • Media History/Journalism
  • Newspapers Research