Japanese Studies

For more details please refer to :
http://sound-culture.infolinker.com.tw/ntumusic/menu/en_intro.pdf (English version)
http://sound-culture.infolinker.com.tw/ntumusic/menu/jp_intro.pdf (Japanese version)

"The musical life in Taiwan under Japanese rule went through significant changes due to the influx of Western and Japanese music as well as modern sound technology such as gramophone records and radio broadcasts. However, past research on the history of music in colonial Taiwan tended to over-rely on oral history due to insufficient attention and access to written sources. Meanwhile, past research on Taiwanese history has long overlooked sound, and yet studying history from the perspectives of sound and auditory culture has been the trend in international academia in the past two decades.

In view of the above-mentioned gaps and recent trend, the Graduate Institute of Musicology at National Taiwan University (NTU) , collaborated with NTU Library and Transmission Books & Microinfo Co.(TBMC) to create the Taiwan Nichinichi Shinpo Sound Culture Database. The reason for focusing on Taiwan nichinichi shinpo is because it was the longest-standing and largest newspaper in colonial Taiwan, and therefore provides rich data for studying the daily musical life and sound culture.

The database covers the period from the year Taiwan Nichinichi Shinpo was launched (1898) to March 31, 1944, after which date Taiwan Daily News merged with other newspapers into Taiwan shinpo (Taiwan News). The total number of entries is 357,200, with more than 20 million characters of metadata. It includes any articles that involve musical sound, including performing arts ((such as dance, opera, drama), mass media (such as records, radio broadcasts, and films), activities (such as ceremonies, rituals, temple festivals, parades), etc. The content of the database mainly concerns Taiwan and Japan, but it also covers China, Korea, Southeast Asia, and other parts of the world."

CiNii ("sigh-knee") Articles is the largest online article index in Japan for humanities and social sciences. Contains some full text articles. CiNii Books is a union catalog of Japanese academic libraries. Unlimited access shared among 10 UC campuses.
List of journals:
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/cinii/servlet/DirTop?USELANG=en
User guides:
Articles: http://ci.nii.ac.jp/info/en/articles/manual_outline.html
Books: http://ci.nii.ac.jp/info/en/books/manual_outline.html

Databases included:
https://www.jst.go.jp/data/
Researchmap, the database of researchers:
https://researchmap.jp/
J-Stage, the database of articles published by scholarly associations
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/-char/ja

A reference database with a selection of e-books. You can search both federally across and some individually within the contents of dictionaries, encyclopedias, full text journals and books contained. Select the middle "詳細（個別）検索" tab from the top menu to search individually. Select the third "本棚" tab to browse the selected contents. Four (4) accesses shared among 9 UC campuses. Logout after use.
List of contents:
http://japanknowledge.com/en/contents/
User guide:
http://japanknowledge.com/file/brochure/quickguide_e.pdf
Video guide:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Japanknowledge?feature=mhee
Dictionaries:
『Nihon daihyakka zensho=Encyclopedia Nipponica 日本大百科全書』 (小学館), 『Encyclopedia of Japan』 (講談社), 『Nihon kokugo daijiten 日本国語大辞典』 (小学館) [Unabridged dictionary of Japanese language], 『Jitsū 字通』 (平凡社) [Dictionary of Chinese characters], 『Kokushi daijiten 国史大辞典』 (吉川弘文館) [Encyclopedia of Japanese history]; and 『Koji ruien 古事類苑』.
E-books/journals:
『Kaisha shiki hō 会社四季報』 (東洋経済新聞社), 『Shūkan ekonomisuto 週刊エコノミスト』 (毎日新聞社), 『Tōyō Bunko 東洋文庫』 (平凡社), 『Shinpen Nihon koten bungaku zenshū 新編日本古典文学全集』 (小学館); and 『Taiyō 太陽』 (博文館, 1895-1928), 『Bungei kurabu 文芸倶倶楽部』 (博文館, 1895-1912) and 『Gunsho ruijū 群書類従』 正 (3rd ed.)・続 (3rd ed.)・続々 (続群書類従完成会, 1983-2002; 1975-2000; 1978; total 133 v.), 『Fūzoku gahō 風俗画報』(no. 1-no.478. 東陽堂, 1889-1916), 『Tōyō keizai shinpō/ Shūkan Tōyō keizai 東洋経済新報/週刊東洋経済 (東洋経済アーカイブズ)』(no.1-no.6635. 東洋経済新報社, 1895-2016), 『Bungei shunjū 文芸春秋』 (v.1n.1-v.28.n.16. 1923-1950) and 『Kamakura Ibun 鎌倉遺文』 (東京堂, 1971, 2014; total 46 v.).

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