St. Olaf College Libraries

Economic Development of Japan: A Guide to Library-based Resources

 

ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND HANDBOOKS

 

Asia overall -- look for topics like work, work force, working class, leisure, women's work, working conditions, play

Europa World Yearbook [R.R. JN1.E85]  [or give it a test run]

Encyclopedia of Modern Asia [R.R. DS4.E53 2002]

 

Japan

Japan: A Global Studies Handbook. [R.R. DS 806.E45 2002]   Basic background.

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture. [R.R. DS 822.5 .E516 2002]   Introductory articles ranging from "Individualism" to "Manga" to "Feminism" to "Family, Gender and Society"

MIT Encyclopedia of the Japanese Economy [R.R. HC 462.9 .H73 1999]   Includes articles like "Corporate personnel practices," "Wage structure," and "Women in the work force." Note date.

Encyclopedia of Japanese business and management. [HF 1001 .E467 2002]

Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan. [R.R. JQ1605.S86 2003]

 

Education

World Education Encyclopedia [R.R. LB15.W87 2001]

 

Customs and Culture

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life [R.R. GN333.W67 1998] by country; includes religion, holidays, food, clothing, rites of passage, interpersonal relations, family, sports, entertainment, recreation, folk arts and crafts, social problems.

You eat what you are: People, culture and food traditions [R.R. GT2850.B37 1999]

Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion. [R.R. GT 507 .E53 2005]

Berkshire encyclopedia of world sport [R.R. GV567.B48 2005]

 

Women and Children

Greenwood encyclopedia of women’s issues worldwide [R.R. HQ1115.G74 2003]

Greenwood encyclopedia of children's issues worldwide [R.R. HQ767.84G74 2008]

 

BRIDGE

 

BRIDGE will offer subject access to materials on your topic (but not individual journal articles -- see below for that). Try beginning with a keyword search to find a good item, and then using the Library of Congress Subject Headings at the bottom of the record to link to more materials on those topics.

 

INDEXES/DATABASES

[A complete list of indexes and databases is available through the Research Finding Tools page. ]

 

Scholarly Articles by Topic

EconLit

PAIS [Public Affairs Information Service]

Sociological Abstracts

Women Studies International

 

Scholarly Articles by Geographical Region

Bibliography of Asian Studies

 

Multidisciplinary Index to Scholarly Publications

Academic Search Premier

 

Business Publications

Business Source Premier

 

Newspapers

Westlaw Campus Research

Lexis-Nexis Academic

World News Connection

 

DATASETS

 

International historical statistics Africa, Asia and Oceania 1750-2000 at StO R.R. HA4675 .M552 2003

International historical statistics Africa, Asia and Oceania 1750-2005 at Carleton Ref HA4675 .M552 2007

 

ICPSR Data [Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan]

OECD Stats

UPenn World Table

 

 

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

 

University of Michigan Government Documents Links to Foreign Government Resources

 

Bank of Japan [English]

Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs, Statistics Bureau [English and Japanese]

Ministry of International Trade [English]

 

MISCELLANEOUS RESOURCES ON THE WEB

 

Librarians’ Catalogs of Websites

Infomine Websites "collected" by academic librarians -- full descriptions and subject headings

Librarians' Index to the Internet Aimed more at public library patrons but still useful for many topics

Scout Report Reviews of web sites; searchable by keyword and Library of Congress Subject Headings

 

Library of Congress Portals to the World: Business, Commerce, Economy: Japan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25 February 2009

Kris MacPherson

Macphers at stolaf.edu