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: Japanese Rare Book Digital Collection

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The Japanese Rare Book Digital Collection features materials from the Asian Division at the Library of Congress. The division’s Japanese Rare Book Collection comprises some 6,000 titles that span diverse genres and cover all manner of subjects.

: Japan Data Catalog for the Humanities and Social Sciences

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: Informatics Research Data Repository

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: JINJIKOSHINROKU (who's who) Database

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: Research Navi

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: Japan Biographical DB

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: Yamagata Archive

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: e-Gov Data Portal

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: Heian Literature Overseas | 海外平安文学情報

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The Notable Japanese Collections in North America (NJC), offers an online database and visualization tool that helps identify, describe, locate, and promote rare or distinctive collections.

: 在欧博物館等保管日本仏教美術資料データベース

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Japanese Buddhist Art in European Collections is a catalogue of Japanese Buddhist art in European museums, namely sculptures, paintings, manuscripts, ritual objects, textiles, and ofuda (paper amulets). This catalogue provides information and some entries also have digital images of artifacts.

: ジャパンデジタルアーカイブスセンター

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: ミュージアム検索

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: WikiPedia 英語版

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English Wikipedia is the world’s largest encyclopedia edited by volunteers; it includes topics related to Japan. It often provides links to specialised databases and guides for the topic in question.

: 国立国会図書館サーチ

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NDL Search is a search service for National Diet Library (NDL) catalogues, which are connected to public libraries, archives, museums, and academic institutions. Results in Japanese can be translated by machine into English.

: IRDB（学術機関リポジトリデータベース）

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IRDB is a database for materials stored in institutional repositories in Japan. Those that can be searched include articles published in departmental memoires and journals, dissertations and theses, and digitised rare books stored by individual institutions. This database is useful to search for materials other than articles: i.e., collections that are not provided through their own interface.