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Academic Search Premier
Coverage: 1975-present (with selected older titles). A multi-disciplinary database with significant full-text. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.

Bibliography of Asian Studies
Coverage: 1971-present. Materials on East, Southeast, and South Asia, with emphasis on humanities and social sciences.

JSTOR
Coverage: varies. Over 800 core scholarly journals. Current issues are unavailable for a varying number of years (frequently 2 to 5 years).

Encyclopedias

Cambridge Histories Online
Currently the collection contains more than 258 digitized volumes  from the esteemed Cambridge Histories series covering 15 subject areas. Useful for locating background information in almost any subject in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences.

Countries & Their Cultures
2001 ed. Focuses on cultures and countries around the world, specifically what is and is not shared culturally by the people who live in a particular country. Entries contain descriptive summaries of the country in question, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious, and political information.

Encyclopedia of Asian culture - Call Number: CASE Ref. - DS12 .E53 1999
1999. The various chapters in this book are largely based on articles contributed to Asian Pacific culture, a cross-cultural magazine of the Asian Cultural Centre for UNESCO

Encyclopedia of Food & Culture
2002 ed. Presents articles on food and its place in human culture and society, including entries on everything from food preparation, distribution and storage to holidays and festivals, nutrition and health, and cultures and cuisines.

Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
2004 ed. Emphasizes people, places, events, and developments that have had a lasting influence on Asia, also covering Asian relations with Western nations, the relations between nations within Asia, and also the flow of people, goods, and ideas within Asia and globally.

Encyclopedia of World Cultures
1996 ed. Lists and describes more than 1,500 global cultures. It is the one of the primary resources for historical, social, political, economic, linguistic, religious, and other information on most cultures. Additional cultures are covered in the supplement (which is a separate resource)

Europa World Plus
Coverage: current. the online version of the Europa World Year Book, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.

Handbook of Japanese mythology
2003 ed. An introductory guide to the mythology of Japan, one of the most pervasive yet least understood facets of Japanese culture.

International encyclopedia of marriage and family
2003 ed. Adopts an international, cross-cultural approach to such diverse topics in marriage and family issues such as adolescent parenthood, cohabitation, widowhood, domestic violence, and commuter marriages. Also examines the history of family life within different cultures and discussing how families have been affected by political and social change.

Japan handbook - Call Number: CASE Ref. - HC462.9 .J3195 1998
1998. Economics, education, and foreign relations.

Kodansha encyclopedia of Japan - Call Number: CASE Ref. - DS805 .K633 1983
1983. 9 volumes.

Oxford encyclopedia of theatre & performance - Call Number: CASE Ref. - PN2035 .O94 2003
2003. 2 volume set.

World Education Encyclopedia
2001 ed. (2nd ed.) This country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries.

World factbook
Annually produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

World Press Encyclopedia
2002 ed (2nd ed.) This survey of press and electronic media covers over 200 countries and their systems.

Newspapers -- International

Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo)
Click on the CONNECT link at the bottom of the page to access the full text. The LexisNexis newspaper archive of the Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) includes full text of articles from 09/01/1989 to present.

Japan Times
Free online version of the Japan Times, with backfiles to January, 1997.

Access World News - International Edition
Coverage: varies by title. Access World News provides full-text information and perspectives from over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. This title does not include U.S. news.

Data/Statistics

Elections in Asia and the Pacific: a data handbook - Call Number: CASE Ref. - JQ38 .E44 2001
2001. 2 volume set: Volume 1. The Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia. Volume 2. South East Asia, East Asia and the South Pacific

International Financial Statistics
Coverage: 1950-present. Provides time series data for balance of payments,banking, exchange rates, interest rates, employment, and other economic concepts.

International historical statistics. Africa, Asia and Oceania - Call Number: CASE REF HA4675 .M552
Latest volume covers 1750-2005.

Japan Statistical Yearbook. - Call Number: Case Ref. - HA1832 .J36 2010
1984-current. Newest volume is in Reference, the rest are in Case Main.

Statistical yearbook for Asia and the Pacific - Call Number: HA1665 .S73
Most recent year shelved in Case Reference.

World Development Indicators
Coverage: 1960-present. WDI includes more than 900 development indicators in over 80 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global.

Citation Style Guide

Guide to APA citations
Diana Hacker's guide to the APA style, including in-text citations and list of references.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association - Call Number: Case Ref or Cooley Ref BF76.7 .P83 2010
Newest version of the APA styleguide. Extensive information on writing, citing, and reference lists for the behavioral and social sciences. Located in the Case and Cooley reference collections.

Opinion Polls

Polling the Nations
Coverage: 1986- present. A compilation of surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the United States and 100 other countries.

Government Information

Japan Government on the WWW
A comprehensive list of links to the various government departments of Japan, including the Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). You may need to select English on the page.

Atlases

Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection
Maps produced by the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency, unless otherwise indicated.

Dictionaries – Japanese language

Japan\'s cultural code words: 233 key terms that explain the attitudes and behavior of the Japanese - Call Number: CASE Ref. - DS821 .D4 2004
2004. Terms, phrases, social life, and customs.

Kenkyushas new Japanese-English dictionary - Call Number: Case Reference PL679 .K4 1974
4th ed

Kodansha\'s essential Kanji dictionary: a compact character dictionary for students and professionals - Call Number: CASE Ref. - PL679 .K567 2002
2002. More dictionaries are in this area, as well as in the CASE Main area.

Kodansha\'s furigana Japanese dictionary: Japanese-English, English-Japanese - Call Number: CASE Ref. - PL679 .Y67 1999
1999. More dictionaries are in this area, as well as in CASE Main.