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Japanese Studies: Ebooks

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Ebook

The University of Cambridge has access to 1.75 million + ebooks from a wide variety of publishers and platforms. For the full list, please consult the Ebooks page.

This page is for Japanese-language ebooks only.

KinoDen

KinoDen is a Japanese academic ebook service for libraries from Kinokuniya.

Use 検索 to search for books. Some of the titles in KinoDen have been purchased by Cambridgue University Library. 

  •  "未所蔵を含める" to include unpurchased titles. 
  • Untick "未所蔵を含める to ONLY see book purchases by Cambridge.  

(contact japanese@lib.cam.ac.uk to request new titles)

Japan Knowledge

JKBooks is the electronic book platform for JapanKnowledge.

JKBooks offers a collection of publications containing specialised content including Gunsho Ruiju, Shiryo Sanshu etc. It features fast searches for desired content, and unaltered PDF page images of original books, while retaining the inherent ease of reading physical books in its display.

 

MeL

Maruzen Ebook Library is Japanese multidisciplinary ebook platform for academic scholarly publications.

Provide a search function and access to the ebooks mostly in Japanese. The number of pages that can be printed or downloaded per title is displayed on the screen for earch title. 

(Contact japanese@lib.cam.ac.uk to request new titles.)

Useful vocaburary

  • 検索(けんさく):kensaku; search
  • 蔵書検索:collection search
  • 通常検索:advanced search (you can use this button to narrow your search)
  • タイトル:title
  • 著者(ちょしゃ): author
  • 出版社(しゅっぱんしゃ):publisher
  • 書籍全文(しょせきぜんぶん): Full text search
  • シリーズ: series
  • 目次(もくじ): Table of contents
  • 内容紹介文(ないようしょうかいぶん): Contents of the Introduction
  • ページの検索結果: Search results from within book
  • 閲覧開始: Start reading

Freely available ebooks

Aozora bunko 

Comic Walker (manga in Japanese, includes some free material)

Google Books 

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