Japanese Studies Bibliographies: Bibliographies: Guides to translations, sources and scholarship

Excellent and fairly comprehensive selection organized by subject.

Selective, annotated, and well-indexed. Organized by subject.

Review essays in the humanities (Part I) and the social sciences (Part II) in alternating years. While not cumulative, it's an excellent place to begin.

This book provides 2-page descriptions of 178 diaries. Entries are not limited to literary diaries -- Hara Kei's and General Nogi's diaries are included. The diaries are arranged chronologically from ancient to the present, although women's diaries are considered a separate category. The introductory section has brief descriptions of commoner's diaries during the war, comparisons between diaries in the East and West, the psychology of diary writing, soldier's diaries from the Russo-Japanese war, postwar Japan through diaries and so on.

Online version can be searched by author or title. Covers research on China, Korea, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and South Asia publsihed in journals or books in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Western languages. Includes book reviews. Author index.

Bibliography of translations from classical Japanese up to about 1600, including also works written in kanbun and Chinese, and items describing and Chinese, and items describing as "late Muromachi or early Kinsei." Created and maintained by Michael Watson at Meiji Gakuin University. In both English and Japanese.

Check-list of translations of Noh plays in alphabetical order. Includes all 253 plays in the current repertoire, together with bangai plays that have been translated. List maintained by Michael Watson at Meiji Gakuin University.

A union list of Japanese books, published before 1867. Includes 1.7 million titles in 500 libraries. The books are arranged in gojuon order by title, and the last volume has an author index.