UBC Japanese Library Resources Blog

The film A Degree of Justice: Japanese Canadian UBC Students of 1942, which was shown during last week’s symposium, is available to view online. Please see the Japanese-Canadian Student Tribute site for more details on the commemorative events.

The webcast of the symposium “Addressing Injustice: UBC’s Response to the Internment of Japanese Canadian Students – Then and Now”, which took place on March 21, 2012 is now available online.

The symposium looked at the removal of 76 Japanese Canadian students attending UBC in 1942.

More information is available through the UBC Equity Office website.

Click here to go directly to the webcast.

Click here for the program poster.

3.11
大災害の経済学 Daisaigai no keizaigaku
ヒロシマ・ナガサキからフクシマへ Hiroshima Nagasaki kara Fukushima e
福島原発の闇 Fukushima Genpatsu no yami

Art
絵筆のナショナリズム Efude no nashonarizumu
特別展日本美術にみる橋ものがたり Tokubetsuten Nihon bijutsu ni miru hashi monogatari
日本美術作品レファレンス事典 (個人美術全集　絵画篇 日本画 明治-昭和中期) Nihon bijutsu sakuhin refarensu jiten

Current Fiction
東京ピーターパン Tōkyō Pītā Pan
僕は、そして僕たちはどう生きるか　Boku wa soshite bokutachi wa dō ikiru ka

History & Political Science
江戸時代来日外国人人名辞典　Edo jidai rainichi gaikokujin jinmei jiten
外邦図 : 帝国日本のアジア地図 Gaihōzu : Teikoku Nihon no Ajia chizu
植民地朝鮮 : その現実と解放への道 Shokuminchi Chōsen : sono genjitsu to kaihō e no michi
東アジアのナショナリズムと近代 Higashi Ajia no nashonarizumu to kindai
明治大正人物事典 Meiji Taishō jinbutsu jiten

Literature
中世文学と隣接諸学 Chūsei bungaku to rinsetsu shogaku
平安文学の論 Heian bungaku no ron
平家物語、史と説話　Heike monogatari shi to setsuwa

Manga & Popular Culture
ドラゴンボールのマンガ学 Doragon bōru no mangagaku
「反戦」と「好戦」のポピュラー・カルチャー “Hansen” to “kōsen” no popyurā karuchā

Social Science
失業と救済の近代史 Shitsugyō to kyūsai no kindaishi
人口激減 : 移民は日本に必要である Jinkō gekigen : imin wa Nihon ni hitsuyō de aru
多文化社会日本の課題 Tabunka shakai Nihon no kadai
日本の外国人留学生・労働者と雇用問題 Nihon no gaikokujin ryūgakusei rōdōsha to koyō mondai

The BC Japan Earthquake Relief fund is offering a special concert on March 11, the anniversary of the Japan disasters. For details check the BC JERF website.

UBC Library will be hosting an exhibition and one-day conference to commemorate the March 11 disasters in Japan. See below and the event page for more details.

Exhibition | February 20 – April 30, 2012
Rare Books and Special Collections, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
retelling the history of the areas affected by the disasters

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Foyer
rethinking social media & the use of nuclear power

Asian Library
recovery in Japan and its ties to Canada

3.11 Portrait Project | February 20 – April 30, 2012
Ike’s Café, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
featuring picture portraits of survivors
sponsored by The Japan Foundation & Shiseido

Conference | Saturday, March 10, 2012
10am – 4pm
Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
students, faculty, alumni & community members
share their experiences & insight
co-sponsored by UBC Asian Studies Department
e-mail to register: retell-rethink-recover[at]interchange.ubc.ca

JapanKnowledge has added another 10 titles to their Shinpen Nihon koten bungaku zenshū 新編　日本古典文学全集 digital collection. The new titles are:

上代
古事記 Kojiki
日本書紀 Nihon shoki
風土記 Fudoki

中世
謡曲集 Yōkyokushū
歌論集 Karonshū
連歌論集 Renga ronshū
能楽論集 Nōgaku ronshū

近世
井原西鶴集 Ihara Saikaku shū
近世随想集 Kinsei zuisōshū
俳論集 Haironshū

To access the SNKBZ e-collection, you must sign into JapanKnowledge. A tutorial is available here on how to search within the e-books.

UBC Library is currently offering a trial of the Mainichi shinbun 毎日新聞 newspaper database, Maisaku. Please try out the database (instructions below), and remember to complete the feedback form to tell us what you think.　The database offers the newspaper’s full-text articles from 1872 to present, as well as articles from the Japanese edition of the Economist.

1) Go to the information page
2) Click on “via the web”
3) Click on the blue log in button
4) fill out the feedback form

Aozora Bunko, which has long provided readers with full-text Japanese literature in the public domain (where the copyright has expired), is now offering its titles through Internet Archive. The material is now available in PDF, as well as mobile device-friendly downloadable formats including EPUB and Kindle. In addition, users have the option of reading the works online.

Although searching by author is possible in both Japanese and English scripts, at this point it appears that titles can only be found using original Japanese script searches. Here is an example of one of the Aozora titles available through Internet Archive: Futari no tomo　二人の友 by Mori Ōgai　森鴎外. See the left-hand column for viewing and download options.

For more information, see the press releases from Voyager Japan, the company that transferred the content, in Japanese and in English.

Anime & Manga
アニメに息づく日本古典 Anime ni ikizuku Nihon koten
特別展 : 手塚治虫のブッダ展 Tokubetsuten: Tezuka Osamu no Budda ten
謎解き! 宮崎・ジブリアニメ Nazotoki! Miyazaki Jiburi anime

Art
アイヌ絵とその周辺 Ainu-e to sono shūhen
テクストとイマージュの肌膚: 渡邊晃一作品集 Tekusuto to imāju no kifu : Watanabe Kōichi sakuhinshū
Basara: Japanese art theory crossing borders 越境する日本美術論
歌川国芳展 : 没後150年 Utagawa Kuniyoshi ten: botsugo 150-nen
特別展 : 写楽 Tokubetsuten: Sharaku
名所江戸百景 : 望月義也コレクション　Meisho Edo hyakkei: Mochizuki Yoshinari korekushon
浪漫図案 : 明治・大正・昭和の商業デザイン Rōman zuan: Meiji, Taishō, Shōwa no shōgyō dezain

History & Political Science
近現代日本を史料で読む Kin-gendai Nihon o shiryō de yomu
昭和天皇 : 「理性の君主」の孤独 Shōwa Tennō : “risei no kunshu” no kodoku
戦国時代年表 Sengoku jidai nenpyō
日本の国境問題 : 尖閣・竹島・北方領土 Nihon no kokkyō mondai: Senkaku, Takeshima, hoppō ryōdo
ビジュアル日本史ヒロイン1000人 Bijuaru Nihon shi hiroin 1000-nin
ポストモダンの正義論 : 「右翼/左翼」の衰退とこれから Posutomodan no seigiron : “uyoku sayoku” no suitai to kore kara
明六雑誌の政治思想 Meiroku zasshi no seiji shiso
モンゴル襲来と神国日本 : 「神風伝說」誕生の謎を解く Mongoru shūrai to shinkoku Nihon : “kamikaze densetsu” tanjō no nazo o toku

Literature
鷗外と近代劇 Ōgai to kindaigeki
賢治オノマトペの謎を解く　Kenji onomatope no nazo o toku
源氏物語姬君のふるまい Genji monogatari himegimi no furumai
人が走るとき : 古典のなかの日本人と言葉 Hito ga hashiru toki: koten no naka no Nihonjin to kotoba
紫式部・定家を動かした物語 : 謙徳公の書いた豊蔭物語 Murasaki Shikibu, Sadaie o ugokashita monogatari : Kentoku-kō no kaita Toyokage monogatari

Literature – Current Fiction
太郎が恋をする頃までには– Tarō ga koi o suru koro made ni wa–
ペンギン・ハイウェイ Pengin haiwei (Penguin highway) | review

Religious Studies
現代仏教の可能性 Gendai Bukkyō no kannōsei
日本人のこころ : 神と仏 Nihonjin no kokoro : kami to hotoke
近代国家と仏教 Kindai kokka to Bukkyō
日本近世の宗教と社会 Nihon kinsei no shūkyō to shakai

We’ve just received the following new materials on the Tōhoku Earthquake & Tsunami, and the nuclear incident.

大津波と原発 Ōtsunami to genpatsu
河北新報特別縮刷版 : 3・11東日本大震災1カ月の記録 Kahoku shinpō tokubetsu shukusatsuban: 3.11 Higashi Nihon daishinsai 1-kagetsu no kiroku
巨大津波が襲った : 発生から10日間東北の記録 Kyodai tsunami ga osotta: hassei kara 10-nichikan Tōhoku no kiroku
検証東日本大震災の流言・デマ Kenshō Higashi Nihon daishinsai no ryūgen, dema
東日本大震災, 2011.3.11 : 1カ月の全記録 Higashi Nihon daishinsai, 2011.3.11 : 1-kagetsu no zenkiroku
東日本大震災 : 1か月の記録 (読売新聞特別縮刷版) Higashi Nihon daishinsai: 1-kagetsu no kiroku (Yomiuri shinbun tokubetsu shukusatsuban)
東日本大震災1カ月の全記録 : 闘う日本 Higashi Nihon daishinsai 1-kagetsu no zenkiroku: tatakau Nihon
東日本大震災 : 朝日新聞縮刷版 Higashi Nihon daishinsai : Asahi shinbun shukusatsuban
東日本大震災 : 報道写真全記録 2011.3.11-4.11 Higashi Nihon daishinsai: hōdō shashin zenkiroku 2011.3.11-4.1