2020年には世界の論文の90％がOpen Accessになるという話
2020年には世界の論文の90％がOpen Accessになるという話
New Open of Full text databases of Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei and Hanashibon Taikei
I please to announce that the National Institute of Japanese Literature opens free full text searchable databases of Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei (Iwanami Shoten, 556 works) and Hanashibon Taikei (Tokyodo Shuppan, 329 works) from May 24, 2012. You need to register to use the database of Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei.
http://base3.nijl.ac.jp/
News from NDL Current Awareness
http://current.ndl.go.jp/node/20927
Enjoy reading Japanese classics.
Desertation Review on “The Mass Evacuation of School Children in Wartime Japan”
Tanya Maus’s review of “Mobilizing the ‘Junior Nation’: The Mass Evacuation of School Children in Wartime Japan” (by Gregory Scott Johnson) is now online at www.dissertationreviews.org
Dissertation Review http://dissertationreviews.org/ is a new site that features overviews of recently defended, unpublished doctoral dissertations (with a current focus on Chinese History, Japan Studies, and Korean Studies – but with many more disciplines joining soon). Our goal is to offer readers a glimpse of each discipline’s immediate present by focusing on the window of time between dissertation defense and first book publication.
A review of “‘The Prostitute’ in Modern Japan (1850-1912)” is now online at dissertationreviews.org
The following announcement that is posted at H-Japan might be of some interest to you.
H-JAPAN (E)
November 1, 2011
From: Dennis Frost
Craig Colbeck’s review of “Bodies, Numbers, and Empires: Representing ‘The Prostitute’ in Modern Japan (1850-1912)” (by ANNE MARIE LYN DAVIS) is now online at www.dissertationreviews.org
If you are interested in getting involved with Dissertation Reviews,
please contact
dissertationreviews@gmail.com
Sincerely,
Thomas S. Mullaney (Editor, Stanford University)
Dennis J. Frost (Japan Editor, Kalamazoo College)
Save the date: Shashi Panel will be on Sunday, March 18 at 2012 AAS
I please to announce that date and time of 2012 AAS panel sponsored by Japanese Company Histories (Shashi) Interest Group is allocated by AAS. It will be 10:15 am – 12:15 pm on Sunday, March 18. I know it is last session slot and many of you are leaving AAS on Saturday night or Sunday morning. I encourage you, however, to stay until noon on Sunday at next AAS, so that you can have opportunity to hear very interesting panel discussion as follows.
Room number is not decided yet. I will inform you as soon as I get more information from AAS.
See you all at the panel in Toronto.
—Detailed information on the Panel—
Researching Early Modern and Modern History of Japan with Shashi (Japanese Company Histories)
Sponsored by Japanese Company Histories (Shashi) Interest Group
Abstract:
There are more than 50,000 companies over 100 years old in Japan; 3,886 of them are over 200 years old. Among them is Kongodo, the world’s oldest company, established in 578 in Kyoto, Japan. Since the Meiji period, many Japanese companies have published shashi, or company histories. Shashi contain not only the company’s history, but also that of their industries. They reflect changes in culture, conditions and social environment. Shashi also present history going back to the medieval and early modern periods, since so many Japanese companies have experienced extraordinary longevity.
This panel will examine approaches to using shashi as research resources. Charles Andrews raises questions about early modern origins of Japan’s modern communications networks identified in a close reading of the company history of Nippon Express, a global transport and logistics corporation founded in the late Tokugawa period. Yuriko Kadokura looks into various shashi to find how Japanese companies, and Japanese society as a whole, dealt with difficulties following the Great Kanto Earthquake, how they chose their path to recovery, and how they recorded these actions to share with future generations. Martha Chaiklin investigates how western footwear was adopted and produced in nineteenth century Japan by researching shashi, newspapers, magazines and literary sources. Bringing these three papers together as a panel provides an opportunity for critical discussion of the potential and limitations of shashi as resources for various kinds of academic research.
Organizer
Hiroyuki N. Good
Japanese Bibliographer
University of Pittsburgh
Chair, Japanese Company Histories (Shashi) Interest Group
Panel Chair
Richard Smethurst
UCIS Research Professor, Department of History
University of Pittsburgh
Presenters
1 Charles Andrews
Visiting Assistant Professor, Division of Social Sciences (History)
Transylvania University (2011-2012)
The Limits of an Indispensible History: Nittsū’s Company History as a Guide to the Early Modern Origins of Japan’s Modern Communications
The researcher of modern Japanese economic or business history will undoubtedly run across references to commemorative in-house histories of specific organizations–Shashi–in the initial stages of research. The utility of these histories to the researcher will of course depend on a variety of factors, but as they become increasingly available in the West through the collaborative efforts of librarians and scholars both in the US and Japan, examples of how such materials have informed specific research should encourage scholars to explore their potential.
This paper introduces the company history of Nippon Express (Nippon Tsūun Kabushiki Kaisha, or Nittsū), now a global transport and logistics corporation. While Nittsū’s 1962 company history commemorates the 25th anniversary of the company as a post-war private business, this shashi directly traces Nittsū’s origins to the late Tokugawa period (1600-1868), and indirectly to the emergence of the great merchant transporters of Edo, Osaka, and Kyoto. For the researcher of Japan’s early modern communications Nittsū’s history is an indispensible guide to the emergence of major transporters and their relationships to their clientele, the Tokugawa government, and to each other. But in drawing both explicit and implicit connections with the foremost transporters of early modern Japan, Nittsū’s history leaves the researcher with compelling questions about the extent of Tokugawa Japan’s interconnectedness and development of competing transporters as Japan modernized.
2 KADOKURA Yuriko
Librarian
Resource Center for the History of Entrepreneurship
Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation
The Great Kanto Earthquake as Seen in Shashi
Since the Meiji period, companies throughout Japan have published shashi, or company histories. Shashi contain not only the company’s history and business, but also numerous descriptions of the contemporary social environment including the effects of disasters and war. Shashi show how various companies, and Japanese society as a whole, dealt with the difficulties they faced, how they chose their path to recovery, and how they recorded these actions to share with future generations. Following the Great East Japan Earthquake, the category “Disaster and Revival as Seen in Shashi” was added to the Research Center for the History of Entrepreneurship’s blog. The category allows users to access information from the “Company History Index Database Project,” which is currently under construction, and introduces shashi including articles on “Disaster and Revival”, especially the Great Kanto Earthquake.
3 Martha Chaiklin
Assistant Professor, History Department
University of Pittsburgh
The March Forward: The Mechanization of Shoe Production in Meiji Japan
One of the most iconic images of modernization in Japan is the photograph of Sakamoto Ryoma in full samurai regalia, except for his feet, which were shod in brogans. Nevertheless, Ryoma’s boots were not a symbol of modern production, but instead were probably custom-made by hand using time-honed techniques. Images of Japanese people dressed in Western clothing are commonly used to exemplify modernization, yet the shift from traditional dress forms was neither immediate nor linear.
Shoes represent one important aspect of this change and in terms of technological development are a more interesting case study than clothing. Specifically, weaving and sewing are some of the earliest mechanized technologies, but shoe construction is complex and requires a number of steps that require different technologies.
This paper will examine how western footwear was adopted and produced in nineteenth century Japan. Contemporary newspapers, magazines, company histories and fiction will be utilized to place mechanization within a social, political and economic context. It will discuss the interaction between the Meiji government, especially the Ministries of the Army and Navy, and the private sector and the introduction of technologies that led to from traditional footwear produced by burakumin or as a by-industry on farms to cordwainers, cottage industry and ultimately mechanized mass production.
Discussant
Maureen Donovan
Japanese Studies Librarian & Associate Professor
Ohio State University
You can request Digital Resources by ILL
Announcement from National Diet Library in July 2011
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デジタル化資料の図書館間貸出しの特例の試行について、対象となる資料が増えました.
平成23年7月4日(月)のデジタル化資料の追加公開により、一部の戦後期刊行和図書のデジタル画像での提供を始めました。これらは当館内でのみデジタル画像を利用することができる資料です。図書館間貸出しの特例措置として、デジタル画像の複製物（紙へのプリントアウト）の提供を試行的に実施していますが、今回追加公開した戦後期刊行和図書のうち、その原資料を容易に入手することができないものは、この特例措置の対象になります。なお、今回の追加公開にともない、特例措置に係る申込み手続きの一部を改めました。この特例措置の手続きの詳細は、以下のページでご確認ください。
○デジタル化資料に係る図書館間貸出しの特例措置
（デジタル画像の複製物の提供）の申込手続（改訂版）
http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/library/news/1191934_1484.html
○「国立国会図書館のデジタル化資料」（図書）
http://dl.ndl.go.jp/#books
Grants Opportunity for Research at the Gordon W. Prange Collection, U of Maryland
Dear members of Japanese Studies community in Pitt,
The following is a grants opportunity to do research in the University of Maryland library’s Gordon W. Prange Collection and East Asia Collection on topics related to the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan and its aftermath, 1945-1960. The application deadline is November 18, 2011.
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From: Eiko Sakaguchi [eikos@umd.edu]
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 5:30 PM
To: The eastlib mailing list
Subject: [eastlib] Reminder: 20th C. Japan Research Awards, U of Maryland :2011-2012
Please forward the award announcement freely to your colleagues.
Twentieth Century Japan Research Award for 2011-2012
The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and the University of Maryland Libraries invite applications for one $1,500.00 grant to support research in the library’s Gordon W. Prange Collection and East Asia Collection on topics related to the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan and its aftermath, 1945-1960. Holders of the Ph.D. or an equivalent degree are eligible to apply, as are graduate students who have completed all requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation. The competition is open to scholars in all parts of the world and from any discipline, but historical topics are preferred. University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students may not apply.
The application deadline is November 18, 2011. The grant must be used by October 31, 2012. Grant funds will be disbursed in the form of reimbursement for travel, lodging, meals, reproductions, and related research expenses. Such costs as computers or software are not eligible. Reimbursement will require submission of receipts for processing by the University.
All applications must be submitted electronically by attachment to Isabelle Kaplan at iskap@umd.edu with “Twentieth-century Japan Research Awards” in the subject line. Applications must include a curriculum vitae and a two-to three-page description of the research project. Applications from graduate students must be accompanied by a letter from the principal faculty advisor attesting to the significance of the dissertation project and to the student’s completion of all other degree requirements.
Materials in the Gordon W. Prange Collection include virtually all Japanese-language newspapers, news agency releases, magazines, pamphlets, and books dating from the period of Allied censorship, 1945-1949, in addition to over 10,000 newspaper photos. There are also materials published by Chinese and Korean residents, most of which are written in Japanese. Related collections in English include the personal papers of Charles Kades and Justin Williams. Office correspondence documenting policies and decisions of the Publications, Pictorial, and Broadcast Division, Civil Censorship Detachment (Civil Intelligence Section), Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers Japan, are complementary to official Occupation records housed at the National Archives, College Park. Japanese newspapers and magazines from the Prange Collection are available for research on microform in the East Asia Collection. Other Prange materials are made available for research in the Prange Collection reading area after consultation with the Prange Curator or Manager. The East Asia Collection contains Japanese-language books published during the wartime period, scholarly monographs on Occupied Japan, and a wide variety of reference works.
A one-page summary of research findings is required at the conclusion of the grant period.
For further information about the collections, consult the following websites:
http://www.lib.umd.edu/prange and http://www.lib.umd.edu/EASIA/eastasia.html
Twentieth-century Japan Research Awards
Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park MD
&
Gordon W. Prange Collection, University of Maryland Libraries, College Park MD
Eiko Sakaguchi (坂口英子）
Curator, East Asia Collection &
Gordon W. Prange Collection
McKeldin Library College Park, MD 20742-7011
Tel 301-405-9135 Fax 301-405-9191
Email. eikos@umd.edu
Interesting Articels on New Issue of Asian Policy
The following information are from H-Japan list serv. All articles are looks interesting. Free access until August 31, 2011.
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The new issue of NBR’s journal Asia Policy has just been released. All of this issue’s articles will be free to access for a limited time.
A listing of this issue’s contents and links are below:
ASIA POLICY 12 | July 2011
View the full volume: http://m.nbr.org/pwEgp
In this issue:
U.S. Re-engagement in Asia
In this Asia Policy roundtable, S.R. Joey Long, Simon Tay, Kumar Ramakrishna, Carlyle A. Thayer, and Zheng Wang assess U.S. engagement in Asia with a focus on how to better strengthen ties while navigating policy challenges, the financial crisis, resurgent extremist groups, and rising suspicions among regional players.
Read more: http://m.nbr.org/kqh0kK
The New Asianism: Japanese Foreign Policy under the Democratic Party of Japan
Daniel Sneider (Stanford University) examines the foreign policy views of the DPJ from the party’s founding through its first year in power. He argues that the “new Asianism,” which should not be understood as a pro-China shift but rather as an effort to manage the rise of China, remains a core identity of the DPJ.
Read more: http://m.nbr.org/kGT3Wb
Political Change in the DPRK
Is North Korea vulnerable to the types of revolutions sweeping the Middle East? In this Q&A, Asia Policy’s editor Andrew Marble discusses political change in the DPRK with Stephan Haggard (University of California-San Diego), and Daniel Pinkston (International Crisis Group, Seoul).
Read more: http://m.nbr.org/ldbZOL
Human Resources and China’s Long Economic Boom
Thomas G. Rawski (University of Pittsburgh) depicts how China’s economic boom rests on a historical accumulation of skills and capabilities far beyond the typical complement of human assets available to low-income nations.
Read more: http://m.nbr.org/kE2eiP
Exploring Regime Instability and Ethnic Violence in Kyrgyzstan
At least 350 people died and over 100,000 people were displaced in ethnic conflict in southern Kyrgyzstan one year ago. Eric McGlinchey (George Mason University) explores the causes of Kyrgyzstan’s political instability and the periodic violence surrounding the June 2010 riots.
Read more: http://m.nbr.org/iTwhlx
== BOOK REVIEWS ==
Roundtable | Red Star over the Pacific
In this book review roundtable, Dean Cheng, Rory Medcalf, Michael McDevitt, Bernard D. Cole, and Zheng Wang discuss Red Star over the
Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy.
Included in the roundtable is a response essay by the book’s authors, Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes.
Read more: http://m.nbr.org/mKhBJe
Essay | Is India Ready For Prime Time?
In this review essay, David J. Karl (Asia Strategy Initiative) discusses two books: Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy by David M. Malone and Arming without Aiming: India’s Military Modernization by Stephen P. Cohen and Sunil Dasgupta.
Read more: http://m.nbr.org/lRd3eg
Download the full issue of Asia Policy (PDF): http://m.nbr.org/lG06mq
== ABOUT ==
ASIA POLICY is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal presenting policy-relevant academic research on the Asia-Pacific that draws clear and concise conclusions useful to today’s policymakers.
Read Asia Policy on Project MUSE:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asia_policy/
Browse past issues of Asia Policy: http://m.nbr.org/imtScg
Tracy Timmons-Gray
The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) Seattle, WA
