UBC Japanese Library Resources Blog

TomoeArts will be staging a performance entitled Ten Nights of Dream, based on the 1908 Natsume Sôseki work (夢十夜). The show will feature performer and UBC instructor Colleen Lanki, and the May 22 event will include a talk on Natsume Sôseki by UBC Asian Studies Professor Sharalyn Orbaugh.

Event details:
May 21, 22 & 23
8:30pm (note: Dr. Orbaugh’s lecture @ 7pm, Fri May 22)
Centre A, 2 West Hastings Street, Vancouver

For more on the events, including ticketing information, check out the TomoeArts performances page.

For the month of May, we will be having a trial of Yomiuri Shinbun’s Yomidas Rekishikan ヨミダス歴史館 database. The database is keyword searchable and includes over 10 million articles from the newspaper from 1874 to present.

To access this resource

1. Log on to your VPN
2. Go to the site: https://database.yomiuri.co.jp/rekishikan/

Check out the information page for more details.

Your feedback is essential to determining whether or not we will purchase this database in the future. Please e-mail me and let me know how useful you found the resource.