Links to references

: 女性情報ポータルウィネット

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Winet is a portal intended to promote gender equality; it is operated by the National Women’s Education Center. This portal offers information concerning gender equality, such as a list of services for women, a bibliographic database, statistics, a who’s who list, and a list of web resources.

: 女性と男性に関するデータベース

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The Gender Statistics Database is provided through Winet; it offers figures regarding the similarities and differences between men and women. For example, it covers education, housework and labour, health, and opinion polls.

: 学会名鑑

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Gakkai Meikan, or the scholarly society directory, presents information concerning major Japanese scholarly societies who work in cooperation with the Science Council of Japan. It lists basic information about activities, such as the number of members, frequency of publication, and meetings

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: Database of Archival Documents in the Open Research Center for Minamata Studies

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: Webcat Plus

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: 岩手県の自然災害と東日本大震災に関する資料リポジトリ

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: Resesarchmap

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Researchmap is a directory of researchers in Japan. It lists most of the researchers working at universities, national research institutions, and some private institutions. It also accepts registration from graduate students by request. At times, the directory contains duplications and out-dated information

: 地域研究コンソーシアム

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The Japan Consortium for Area Studies consists of institutions and organisations that focus on areal studies. Its list of members (navigation links in sidebar: ‘About the Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JACS)’ » ‘Members’) can also be used as a collection of links to institutions and organisations

: CiNii

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CiNii is a bibliographic database service for scholarly literature published in Japan; it mainly contains post-WWII journal articles and bibliographical records from university libraries’ catalogues. CiNii is comprised of CiNii Articles and CiNii Books. Depending on the circumstances, CiNii Articles can provide full text articles (sometimes through local repositories).

: 日本思想史文献データベース検索

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The Database of Japanese Intellectual History contains bibliographical information regarding Japanese intellectual history, from antiquity to the present day, published after 1965; data covers widely for example religions and ideologies. The interface can be changed into English by clicking the language link on the left hand side of the screen

: 日本法令外国語訳データベースシステム

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Japanese Law Translation aims to provide tentative translations of Japanese legal systems as well as laws and regulations operated by the Ministry of Justice, Japan. The site covers laws and regulations that are particularly important. A legal dictionary is also provided for reference

: アジア資料センター

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Japan Centre for Asian Historical Records, National Archives of Japan digitises and exhibits governmental materials concerning Japan’s relationship with other Asian nations from the early Meiji period to the end of WWII. The National Archives of Japan, the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and the National Institute for Defense Studies of the Ministry of Defense provide the materials. By default, images are provided in DjVu format: they can be switched to JPEG by clicking a button at the top right of the screen.

: NHK放送文化研究所

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NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, a research institute of the National Broadcasting Channel, surveys public opinion on a monthly basis. The survey results are only available through their Japanese website; a summary of the polls are provided in English. It also conducts an annual poll regarding the Japanese language.

: JICA研究所

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JICA Research Institute, a research section of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, focuses on supporting developing countries. The institute provides its publications as well as some data sets. A multimedia page releases podcast programmes about the world economy, ODA, and future strategies