About this Subject Guide
This Subject Guide has been developed to support your research on Japanese Studies at the University of Iowa Libraries. Sources with Lock Image 
means that those resources are available to only UI affiliated users and you need to login to InfoHawk+ with your valid HawkID and password to use them. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact UI library staff. We are here to assist you!
Popular resources
- JapanKnowledge is a reference/e-book database that covers a wide variety of content and has been one of the most useful databases for Japanese Studies. You can find a video recording of a JapanKnowledge workshop here.
- KOD (Kenkyusha Online Dictionary) offers online access to over a dozen of English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries.
- This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study with full text information.
Streaming Video through UI Libraries
- Links to licensed online videos
Manga for Japanese Language Learners
- Links to open access manga
News
March 2022
Updates on ヨミダス歴史館 Yomidasu rekishikan:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tCt7YCC3T9R4pwq0_dwgXLUE9OtcC7Fe/view?usp=sharing
Spring 2022
This Spring semester, the UI Japanese Program and the UI Libraries are presenting Tadoku Club, which offers opportunities for anyone to enjoy reading Japanese books at a comfortable setting.
Tadoku (多読) means reading a lot of books for enjoyment. We have a variety of Japanese books suitable for all levels of learners, including graded readers, picture books, and manga!
The UI Tadoku Club is is open to the public. Anyone interested in reading Japanese books can join us.
- When: Thursdays, 4 pm to 5 pm
- Where: East Asian Reading Room (2nd floor of the UI Main Library, or LIB2008)
- Website: https://dsps.lib.uiowa.edu/tadoku/
- For more info, contact Onishi sensei via email at nana-onishi@uiowa.edu
Fall 2021
Now you can access to digitized versions of out-of-print materials in the National Diet Library, Japan (NDL) from the UI Main Library.
The Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries is provided by the NDL as a means of making digitized versions of otherwise difficult-to-obtain materials available to university libraries that subscribe to the Service. In North America, currently this service is available only at the University of Iowa Library and the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley.
For more details of the service, click here.
Locating Japanese collection items
The general materials of Japanese Collection are located in the UI Main Library. Japanese language items are integrated in the East Asian Collection on the 2nd floor, while English & other western language materials are shelved on Main Library Stacks on 2nd, 4th, and 5th floors according to their call numbers.
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