Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan 
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Description: Contains hard data and full text on Japanese politics, government, economics and corporate behavior, as well as information on Japanese art, culture, and history. Serves as a guide to the more subtle traditions that have shaped Japanese life and thought throughout the centuries. This digital reference work is based on Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, published in 1993, and it contains almost all of the 11,000 main-text entries of that book, thousands of which have been updated to reflect changes occurring in the 1990s. There are also 150 new entries on notable people, companies, events, trends, etc, of the last decade. The main-text entries range in length from 50 words to more than 4,000 and cover every aspect of Japanese culture and society from prehistory to contemporary science and technology. Accessible via JapanKnowledge.
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Coverage: Antiquity to the present.
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Area Studies
Asian Studies
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Bibliography of Asian Studies
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Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator
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