Database

Title

Oxford English Dictionary Online
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Category Dictionaries
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Oxford English Dictionary
Title

Academic OneFile

(GALE )
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Materials in Linguistics, Sociology, Politics, International Relations, Music, Gender, and many other fields.
Title

CiNii Research
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    Cross Search of 
    following Databases

     • CiNii Books
      Materials in university libraries 
      in Japan
  
     • CiNii Dissertations
      Dissertations in National Diet 
      Library and university libraries 
      in Japan
     
     • IRDB
      Institutional Repositories 
      Database
 
     • KAKEN
      Grant-in-Aid 
      for Scientific Research

   ※ CiNii Research 
        Incorporated Databases

Title

PressReader
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Category Newspapers
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More than 7,000 periodicals and newspapers.
Title

British Library
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Materials in British Library
Title

Britannica Online Japan
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Category Dictionaries
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Encyclopedia Britannica, International yearbook, and modern terms dictionary
Title

Britannica Online
English
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Britannica dictionary in English
Title

Kenkyusha Online Dictionary
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Category Dictionaries
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17 kinds of Kenkyusha dictionaries and Daijirin dictionary.
Title

The Japan Times Archives
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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
Title

National Diet Library
NDL-Search
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Category Books
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NDL Search allows you to search for materials and digital materials held by the National Diet Library,
You can request for browsing or copying, and use a variety of other services.
You can also search for materials held by libraries in Japan with which has data linked.