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Covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This collection contains more than one million records, with coverage dating as far back as 1930. There is full text for nearly 560 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books.

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JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content , including over eight hundred leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. We now offer 6 archival collections, along with current subscriptions to individual titles accessed through the JSTOR Scholarship Program’s platform for seamless access to the full run of the title.

These journals available on MU's website.

Navigation site to searchable, full text Japanese journal sources. Can be translated to English or Japanese.

Provides links to Japanese--English dictionaries for free online translation.

JCHepburn is the first English dictionary compiled by the Japanese. The "Hepburn romanization." The original and revised variants of Hepburn remain the most widely used methods of transcription of Japanese. As Hepburn is based on English phonology, an English speaker unfamiliar with Japanese will generally pronounce a word romanized in Hepburn more accurately than a word romanized in the competing Kunrei-shiki.

Monash University's interface for all EDICT Project dictionary files. Kana, kanji, or romanized Japanese to English and English to Japanese

"A comprehensive, illustrated dictionary with etymologies, pictographs & definitions in English, displaying also Hiragana and Katakana, the Kana used in Nihongo."

Website of the museum devoted to documenting and displaying the Ainu, an ethnic group of Japan. features essays with images from the collections, about the history, life styles, music, sacred dances, and oral literature, etc. of the Ainu.

From Harvard, this resource "supports research on Japan and provides a forum for related academic activities and the exchange of ideas".

Japanese Institutional Repositories Online

From NYU... a number of links to sources of statistical and policy information to assist your work.

A searchable site for Japanese Government information.

A collection of links to a variety of sites.

Compiled by the Japan Foundation, the database covers Japanese literary works translated into other languages mainly from the end of World War II to the present and is searchable by author, title of work, translator, or other keywords (terms may be input in either Japanese or roman letters). The basic unit of the database is the work rather than the publication, so short stories are listed individually by their own titles rather than in the anthology in which they were originally included.

From Duke University - an annotated list of links to full-text resources.

An encyclopedia of writing systems and languages.

"PAIR offers scholars, students and the interested public more than six thousand professionally selected, cataloged and annotated online resources within 25 different subtopic areas." From a project run by University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota and the Ohio State University.

Resources selected by the Library of Congress subject experts.

From MIT, "the VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto largely inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be). Topical units to date focus on Japan in the modern world and early-modern China."

Interactive tool to learn Japanese characters.

Read Japanese websites with pop-up hints.

"Paste (or write) a document or text in Japanese into the box and press a Tool button. The Reading Tutor was designed to help JFL/JSL learners improve their reading skills in Japanese. This system was developed specifically to help learners study written Japanese at their own pace, in their own way.

Paste a url or some text in the box, move the mouse over any Japanese word to see the reading and definition.