Japan Knowledge Plus

Japan Knowledge Plus includes Nihon kokugo daijiten, Dijitaru daijisen, Jitsu, Kazoekata no jiten and many other inter-language dictionaries; Kokushi daijiten; Nihonshi nenpyō; Nihon jinmei daijiten (biographical dictionary); a dictionary of scientific terms; the Nipponica (a full text 30 volume encyclopedia); the JK Who's Who; the Kodansha encyclopedia of Japan; a news database (NNA) covering Asia and the European Union; Shūkan ekonomisuto (a full text weekly economics journal); Kaisha shikihō (up-to-date business information); Imidas; Gendai yōgo no kiso chishiki; Edo-Tōkyō kasane chizu (map); the full text of books in the Tōyō bunko series; various chronologies (world & Japanese history, Japanese culture, society & daily life); a video database of TV & news footage from 1908 to 2005; a database of dissertations from the humanities departments of 6 Japanese universities; a URL database; a books in print database; a sound library & a music library.

Access

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