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Updated: Wed 11/7/07
The Japanese-language holdings at UHM represent one of the largest in the United States. The University’s Hamilton Library contains more than 125,000 volumes in Japanese, 7,600 microfilm reels and fiche cards, 719 serials, and 1,682 periodical titles not currently being collected. Extensive microfilm files exist for newspapers such as Asahi Shinbun, Mainichi Shinbun, and Nihon Keizai Shinbun, and Japan Times, source materials on Ryukyus, Okinawa, Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the Kuriles, and Minutes of the Upper and Lower Houses of the Japanese Imperial Diet between 1890 and 1947. CD-ROMs include archival issues of Yomiuri Shinbun, directories, dictionaries, classical literature, performing arts, and Japanese government's white papers and statistics. Web-based online databases include scholarly and trade journal indexes, encyclopedias, Japanese books in print, and biographical information on notable Japanese individuals. Web: http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/japan/index.htm
Included in the general
holdings are rare, specialized Japanese collections:
Web: http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/japan/special/index.htm
- The Hokkaido Collection: 1,000 titles--the best in the United States
- The Nan'yô Collection: 691 titles
- The Performing Arts Collection: 1,020 titles
- The Satsuma Collection: copies of original source documents
- The Hawley-Sakamaki Collection: an internationally recognized collection of Ryukyuan research sources
- The Kajiyama Collection: represents the personal library of the late novelist Toshiyuki Kajiyama, which consists of 7,000 titles, including historical documents on Japanese emigration, Korea, and 20th century popular culture
- The Takazawa Collection (Archive of Social Conflict and Social Movements): consists of over 50,000 items of archival materials on postwar Japanese social movements (Web: www.takazawa.hawaii.edu)
- The Tokugawa and Bakumatsu Collection: academic journal articles focused primarily on the history of the Tokugawa and Bakumatsu periods in Japan
- The Oliver Statler Collection: documents and sources gathered on Japanese culture, history and art over Statler's career
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The Library also has strong holdings of materials dealing with the industrial and economic development of Japan as well as on women in Japan. Since 2002, the Library also started collecting hard to obtain Japanese company, non-profit organizations, and educational institution histories collectively known as "shashi." With help of grants from the Japan Foundation, North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC) and donations from the Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Museum and Kawasaki Prefectural Library, the Shashi Collection grows rapidly (Web: http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/japan/company/index.htm) Thirty-one serials and over 600 monographs (in English and Japanese) on Japanese law are housed in the Law Library of the Richardson School of Law.
The UHM Library is a member of the Research Libraries Group of 163 research libraries as well as a member of the U.S. and Japan bilateral Global ILL Framework (GIF), the membership of which includes over 130 Japanese and 70 North American university libraries. GIF provides document delivery services and Interlibrary loan among the members. The Asia Collection Reading Room offers a Japanese Windows PC and PCs equipped with Japanese-language reading software.
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES
The Center for Japanese Studies assists in the publication of a continuing series of annotated bibliographies of the special Japanese collections of Hamilton Library. These annotated bibliographies were compiled by the late Dr. Masato Matsui and other UH scholars with support from the Japan-US Friendship Commission. The bibliographies, which are available in the Library, include:
Japanese Economic and Technological Developments: An Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by Masato Matsui, Jun Nakamura, and Tomoyoshi Kurokawa. Honolulu: UH Center for Japanese Studies, 1989. 436 pp.
Japanese Performing Arts: An Annotated BibliographyCompiled by Masato Matsui, Minako I Song, Tomoyoshi Kurokawa, and Albert Ikoma. Honolulu: UH Center for Asian and Pacific Studies/Council for Japanese Studies, 1981. 318 pp.
Japanese Sources on Korea in Hawaii. Compiled by Minako I Song and Masato Matsui. Honolulu: Center for Korean Studies, 1980. 251 pp.
Nan-yô (South Seas): An Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by Masato Matsui, Minako I Song, and Tomoyoshi Kurokawa. Honolulu: UH Center for Asian and Pacific Studies/Council for Japanese Studies, 1982. 198 pp.
Russo-Japanese Frontier Region: Japanese Source Materials. Compiled by Masato Matsui, Tomoyoshi Kurokawa, and Jun Nakamura. Honolulu: UH Center for Asian and Pacific Studies/Council for Japanese Studies, 1984. 322 pp.
Ryûkyû:
An Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by
Masato Matsui, Tomoyoshi Kurokawa, and Minako I Song. Honolulu: UH Center
for Asian and Pacific Studies/Council for Japanese Studies, 1981. 345
pp.
Satsuma Domain: Japanese Research Resources.
Compiled by Masato Matsui, Mitsugu Sakihara and Tetsuo Umeki. Honolulu:
UH Center for Asian and Pacific Studies/Council for Japanese Studies,
1986. 246 pp.
WONG AUDIOVISUAL CENTER (SINCLAIR LIBRARY)
The Wong Audiovisual Center, located in Sinclair Library, maintains an impressive collection that includes over 700 video titles on Japan-related subjects and several thousand on Asia-related topics, as well as an increasing number of Japanese films on videodiscs (DVDs). The Center offers a variety of media materials and equipment--videotapes (including feature films on video), DVDs, compact discs, phonodiscs, filmstrips, CD-ROMS, videodiscs, audiocassettes, thirty video viewing stations, players (CD, videodisc, phonodisc, audiotape), film projectors, slide projectors, and electronic piano keyboards. Faculty may reserve videos in advance for classroom use or place media on reserve in the Center for their students’ use. A widescreen projector and video preview room are also available for class use. To use materials, a validated and activated ID (UH Manoa, Community College, or East-West Center) is required. Media check out is typically four days. For more information, contact the Center at (808) 956-8308. Web: http://www.sinclair.hawaii.edu/wavc/.
New feature films have been to the Wong holdings. Please click here to see an updated listing of these films.
Japanese Legal Resources at The William S. Richardson School of Law LibraryRARY
The Law School Library began its Japanese law collection in recognition of the importance of the Pacific Rim to Hawaii and to support research in Japanese law. The Law School maintains strong ties with Japanese legal scholars and academic institutions and this connection has also led to the Library collecting important Japan related legal materials. In 1998, the collection received a significant gift from Dr. Kaoru Kashiwagi and his wife Mrs. Michiko Kashiwagi, as an endowment to support research on Japanese law. The collection also received a substantial donation of books given by the Kyoto Bar Association in 2002. The library has continued to add important resources in print and electronic formats to the collection on a wide range of subjects related to Japanese law in both English and Japanese. The Japanese law collection covers research materials on virtually any Japanese legal subject. The collection has 592 treatises and 41 serials as of November 2005, and the Japanese language collection consists of 332 treatises, 32 serials, and 1 CD-ROM. For more information, visit the web: http://library.law.hawaii.edu/refres/legal_resources/japanese.php.
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