Japanese Studies Resources

Summon is a search engine that provides a general starting point to find the majority of UBC Library's collections - including books, ebooks, scholarly journals and articles, newspaper articles, dissertations and theses, videos, images, maps, manuscripts, music scores, digitized items and more.

The world's largest library catalogue, containing records from OCLC member libraries from around the world, including the National Diet Library and Keio and Waseda University libraries.
Generally, use this site to locate a book for InterLibrary Loan request.

Search for books and journals held by university libraries in Japan.

Search for materials and digital content from the National Diet Library. Users can also access search results from prefectural and government-designated city libraries. Additionally, digital content offered by public, academic, and specialized libraries is available for searching.

Offers one of the largest collections of Japanese academic e-books. UBC Library offers access to 587 items as of May 2023.

An e-book package containing 200 faculty-selected titles published by Iwanami Shoten, one of Japan's leading scholarly publishers. Contains general-audience publications as well as those geared towards language learners.

A cloud-based digital library service, KinoDen, Kinokuniya Digital Library offers multidisciplinary ebook selections from Japanese academic publishers.

Limit the language to Japanese in the advanced search to obtain the list of available titles. We have 154 titles available in Japanese language, essays, drama, and history.

A Japanese multi-purpose database including many reference resources and electronic books.
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A digital library containing almost 19,000 titles of freely accessible Japanese e-books from the public domain as well as works made openly available by the author.

Choose "Books" and limit search to "Available Online" for open access materials.

Provides web texts of classical Japanese literature in Japanese characters and is intended for English-speaking scholars and students. Where possible, the Japanese texts are accompanied by English translations.

Several dozens of mostly Japanese classical literary works are available.