Japanese Collection: Home
About this guide
Guide content supports the teaching and research goals of multiple departments on campus. Content represents a non-exhaustive selection of essential resources and tools for engaging a wide range of backgrounds and viewpoints.
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
Spring 2025
The Spring 2025 sessions of the UI Tadoku Club will begin Friday, January 31st.
Join us every other Wednesday and Friday afternoon in the East Asian Reading Room of the Main Library. See the flyer below for specific dates and times.
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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