Research Resources for Japanese 

Journal Articles

EBSCO's Academic Search Premier

A multidisciplinary database with full-text articles. You can find scholarly articles by checking the box to the left of the option, "Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals". Academic Search Premier contains many major peer-reviewed journals on the Japanese language and culture, including: Japan Forum, Japanese Studies, and many others.

Identifying Books in the library catalog

To find items in Japanese, to a Word search for the following keywords:

• japanese language materials

Web Sites

Japanese Language Dictionary

Denshi Jisho (meaning "electronic dictionary") is an online Japanese dictionary that focuses on powerful search features and an easy-to-use interface. The data comes from Jim Breen's WWWJDIC project.

Project LRNJ

A good introduction and practice tool for learning hiragana and katakana

Language Learning Library

LanguageLearningLibrary.org is the largest and most comprehensive language learning portal on the web offering highly relevant and useful language learning related resources.

LanguageLearningLibrary.org was created to meet the needs of both teachers and students alike. This site will save time and frustration from the usual web search. We surfed the net so you don't have to, and compiled the most comprehensive and well organized information.