Research Guides: Japanese Studies: JAPAN 161

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JAPAN 161: Religious Life in Modern Japan / Prof. W. Bodiford (Spring 2015)

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JAPAN161-1 / JAPAN297B-1: Religious Life in Modern Japan (Spr 2015)

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Article Databases

Asia-studies full-text online
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Provides full-text access to research and reports on business, government, economic, and social issues from 55 countries.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
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Index of western-language monographs, articles, and book chapters on all parts of Asia and Asian Studies (East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Indian Ocean) published since 1971.

CiNii
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Indexes to academic journal articles from Japan and provides full-text for over 6,800 journals, primarily in Japanese (warning: coverage may not be complete).

FRANCIS
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An index to European journal articles in the humanities and social sciences. Multiple languages, 1972 to 2015. FRANCIS is no longer being updated.

Google Scholar
JAIRO
Full text journal articles and other various digital resources produced by Japanese universities, primarily in Japanese.

JSTOR
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Repository of scholarly journals (warning: does not contain the most recent 3-5 years).
MLA International Bibliography
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Indexes worldwide publications on literature, language, linguistics, folklore, film, television, and theater from 1923 to the present. See also the MLA Directory of Periodicals.
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Project MUSE
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Full text of current issues (from about 1990) of scholarly journals published by university presses, chiefly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. UCLA has access to Muse e-books published from 2017-2020, plus a selected number of other e-book titles.
Full-Text Journals, johns hopkins university, milton s. eisenhower library, Project MIse, project mus, projectmuse, moose, project moose

Core Journal Titles

Buddhist-Christian studies
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Call Number: BQ4600 B82
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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Call Number: PJ3 .L84b
Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie
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Call Number: DS501 .C27
Online
Eastern Buddhist
Call Number: BQ7300 .E27
Print only. Location: YRL Stacks; Current issues in Periodicals Stacks
Harvard journal of Asiatic studies
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Call Number: DS501 .H26
History of religions
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Call Number: BL1 .H62
Japanese journal of religious studies
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Call Number: BL2201 .J826
Journal of Asian studies
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Call Number: DS501 .F22
Journal of Japanese stuidies
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Call Number: DS801 .J826
Monumenta Nipponica
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Call Number: DS821.A1 M7
Pacific world
Call Number: BQ2 .P33
Print only. Location: YRL Stacks and SRLF
Philosophy East and West
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Call Number: B1 .P547

Reference Sources/ Bibliographies

Reference Universe
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A good place to start, but note that it is an index to over 15 million articles in 11,000 subject encyclopedias and handbooks, both print and online and does not provide full-text articles. Instead, it will connect you to our catalog so you know where to find the appropriate encyclopedia, dictionary or other reference work. You will be linked to UCLA's holdings for any entries you find.
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encyclopedia, subject encylopedias, Oxford Reference Online, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Routledge Reference Resources Online, Netlibrary, Annual Reviews, ABC-CLIO e-books, AccessScience, Literature Online, Idea Group, Sage Publications, Credo, Paratext, ReferenceUniverse

Basic Terms of Shinto
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Web version based on the 1985 print edition by Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
Cambridge History of Japan
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Provides full text online access to the Cambridge History of Japan.
Encyclopedia of Buddhism by Robert E. Buswell, Jr
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Call Number: BQ128 .E62 2004
Also in print. Location: YRL Stacks and College Ref
Encyclopedia of religion by Lindsay Jones
Call Number: BL31 .E46 2005 2nd ed.
Location: YRL Ref
Encyclopaedia of religion and ethics by James Hastings
Call Number: BL31 .E56 1925
Location: YRL Ref.
Encyclopedia of Shinto
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English translation of the Shinto Jiten (1994) edited by the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University.
Japan (World bibliographical series ; v. 103) by Frank Joseph Shulman
Call Number: Z3301 .S475 1989
Location: YRL Ref
Japanese history & culture from ancient to modern times : seven basic bibliographies by John W. Dower
Call Number: Z3306 .D69 1986
Location: SRLF
JapanKnowledge Lib
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Provides access to basic Japanese reference sources including encyclopedias and dictionaries (e.g., 日本大百科全書, 日本国語大辞典, 國史大辭典, Encyclopedia of Japan, etc.) as well as 東洋文庫 and 新編日本古典文学全集 e-series. Click here for instructional videos.
Kodansha encyclopedia of Japan
Call Number: DS805 .K633 1983
Location: YRL and College Ref
Nanzan guide to Japanese religions by Paul L. Swanson and Clark Chilson
Call Number: BL2210.5 .N36 2006
Location: YRL and College Stacks
Religions of Japan in practice by George J. Tanabe, Jr.
Call Number: BL2202 .R48 1999
Location: YRL and College Stacks
Sources of Japanese tradition by Wm. Theodore de Bary ... [et al.]
Call Number: DS821 .S68 2001
Location: YRL and College Stacks

Newspaper Databases

Factiva
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Provides access, mostly full text, to nearly nine thousand business and general news sources including U.S. and international newspapers, magazines and wire services; includes major Japanese newspapers such as 読売新聞, 毎日新聞, and 産経新聞 (warning: covers only recent years).
Nexis Uni
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Full-text news (including broadcast transcripts), business, legal, and reference information. Useful for finding full-text of current performing arts and media industry news in major newspapers. Includes biographical information from Who's Who titles. Formerly LexisNexis Academic.

Asahi Kikuzo II Visual
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Full text access to 朝日新聞 (1879-present) and Historical Photo Archive, containing ca. 10,000 pieces of historical photographs taken in Asia and Europe from the 1930s to 1945.
Nikkei Telecom 21
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Full text access to 日本経済新聞 (1876/12/2-1956/12/31, and 1981/10-present), 日経産業新聞 (1981/10-present), 日経流通新聞 (1985/10-present), and 日経金融新聞 (1987/10-2008/1) is provided; it also offers English sources such as Nikkei English News, Nikkei Weekly and translations of major articles from the above-mentioned Japanese newspapers, as well as Nikkei Company Profile (30,000 company profiles) and Nikkei Who's Who (20,000 corporate executive profiles).
Yomidas Rekishikan
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Full text access to Yomiuri shibun 読売新聞 (1874-present) and Daily Yomiuri (1989-present). The database also provides dictionaries (Japanese/English, English/Japanese, or new words dictionaries) to look up definitions and biographies, just by highlighting any words in the article and clicking dictionary buttons.

Library Catalogs for Finding Books and Journals

UCLA Library Catalog
Holdings of materials owned by the UCLA Library and other UCLA collections. Does not contain full-text articles or article citations.
OPAC, SRLF
Melvyl Catalog
Combined search of the UCLA Catalog, UC-wide holdings, libraries worldwide, and selected article indexing. To limit search to books only, on the Advanced Search screen, scroll to the bottom of the list of databases and click on Select All in Group. If you want to include an article database in your search, click the box before continuing.

WebcatPlus
Holdings of university libraries in Japan.
Google Book

HathiTrust Digital Library
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A repository of scanned books contributed from academic institutions all over the United States, including UCLA. Books still in copyright are scanned and searchable, but the full text scans will not become available online until their copyright expires. In response to disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic, UCLA students, staff, and faculty currently have expanded access to digitized materials via the Emergency Temporary Access Service. See instructions for use online. Click "LOG IN" on the HathiTrust homepage for access to more full text books.

NDL Search
Covers holdings of National Diet Library (NDL), public libraries and digital archives of Japan as well as NDL's Japanese Periodical Index.

WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)
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OCLC FirstSearch catalog includes citations for books, journals, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, computer files, newspapers, slides, videotapes, archival material, etc., in libraries around the world.
General Research Catalogs; Library Online Catalogs; Online library catalogs; Library catalogs; OCLC; World cat; FirstSearch; First search,WolrdCat, world cat, world, wolrd cat, wordlcat, worldcay, world cay, worldcar, world car, world cap

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