Japanese
Databases
Coverage: Full text.
This database offers full-text peer-reviewed literature devoted to Asian Humanities - Asian languages, arts, culture, history and religion. 53 countries are covered.
OLAC is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources. Includes details of text collections, audio recordings, dictionaries, and software, sourced from dozens of digital and traditional archives.
Coverage: 1785 - 2014
The complete digital edition of the Times (London) is a primary source for researchers of world history, politics, and literature. Contains articles and letters to the editor from famous writers. The entire newspaper has been captured and is searchable, including all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photographs.
Coverage: Index
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A multi-disciplinary academic journal which provides a forum for trans-disciplinary discussion across boundaries - disciplinary, geographic, cultural, social or economic. Each issue is organised as a site of encounter around a one word theme. Focusing on New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific, Junctures seeks to address the matters which concern us all as we negotiate the contemporary environment. Double-blind peer reviewed by an international editorial team. Themes include water, oceans, genetics, space, peace, language, movement, body, play, control, Indigenisation.
Coverage: Full text available up until the most recent two years, table of contents available for all years.
Semi-annual multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal containing academic research articles, book reviews, essays and short stories. Topics include economic development, business, government and politics, religion, culture, music, and media. Contributors are from New Zealand and abroad. Published by the New Zealand Asian Studies Society (NZASIA), the main professional organisation of tertiary Asian Studies scholars in New Zealand.
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The Japan Foundation was established in 1972 as a special legal entity to undertake international cultural exchange. The purpose of the Japan Foundation is: to contribute to a better international environment, and to the maintenance and development of harmonious foreign relationships with Japan, through deepening other nations understanding of Japan, promoting better mutual understanding among nations, encouraging friendship and goodwill among the peoples of the world, and contributing to the world in culture and other fields through the efficient and comprehensive implementation of international cultural exchange activities.
Japanese Films (with English sub-titles) available for viewing from the library.
The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme invites university graduates from overseas to participate in international exchange and foreign language education throughout Japan.