Monographic Collections of Japanese Studies in North America

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M
1	Institution:	What subject area does your institution specialize in collecting?	Reason for collecting in this area?	2nd area?	Reason	3rd Area?	Reason	4th Area?	Reason	5th Area?	Reason	6th Area?	Reason

2	Arizona State University	Literature		Art		History
3	Brigham Young University	20th century authors	faculty research and instructional support	Early poetry	faculty research
4	Columbia University C.V. Starr East Asian Library	Literature (Classics & Modern)	Most active academic field at Columbia	Films and other library materials related to the Makino Mamoru Collection on the History of East Asian Film	To expand the Makono Collection
5	Duke University	Japanese Colonial history, esp. Taiwan and Korea	faculty in literature, history and art history	modern Japanese art history, esp. design, the history of the bunten	faculty and graduate students	modern Buddhism, esp. colonial, ties to India, China, Korea	faculty (4)	16th century material culture	new area, faculty	Okinawa	new area, faculty and graduate students	women's literature; women's movement	faculty, grad students
6	Fuller Theological Seminary	Christianity (5600 monographs)		Religion		Philosophy
7	Harvard University Fine Arts Library	Arts and Architecture
8	Library of Congress	Japanese imperialism and decolonization in Asia		Japanese migrations to Asian, and the North and South America		Land and urban planning, and architecture in modernizing Japan		Women’s liberation, feminist movement, and sexism in Japan
9	Ohio State University	Linguistics, 2d language acquisition, language pedagogy	Faculty & graduate student interest	Literature	Faculty & graduate student interest; pockets of distinctive material	Manga	Complement Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum; respond to student interest	Science & technology	Faculty & graduate student interest; complement to university's discovery themes	Local/regional cultures; history	Faculty & graduate student interest: Kyoto, Osaka, Shimane, Niigata, Okinawa, Saitama, etc	Art history	XXth century Japanese art in an East Asian context; Buddhist art
10	Ohio State University	Japanese company histories	Primary source material for wide range of fields; large # of Japanese companies in Ohio	Early post-WWWII Japan	Complementing special collections (John W Bennett collection; John B Cornell collection; Sugamo Prison cartoons, etc)
11	Princeton University	history of traditional medicine	Department strength	History of Japan	Department's traditinal strength	Local history of Kyushu, Shikoku and Okinawa	Coordinated collection development within the East Coast Consortium of EAL
12	Rutgers University East Asian Library	Women's literature	faculty demand	Popular culture	faculty demand	Atomic bomb literature	faculty demand
13	UC Irvine	modern & medieval literature	faculty's and graduate students' interests	film and popular culture	faculty's and graduate students' interests	Early Modern and Modern history, especially women and gender	faculty's and graduate students' interests	History of Modern Japanese Art and Visual Culture	faculty's and graduate students' interests	traditional music and theater	faculty's and graduate students' interests
14	UCLA	modern intellectual history	faculty's research interest	film and media studies	faculty and students' research interest	Japanese immigration history in the U.S.	faculty's research interest	history of science	faculty's research interest	Hiroshima and Nagasaki	faculty's research interest	old commentaries on classical Japanese literary works
15	University of Alberta	Japanese language and literature	Initially the teaching department was called Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures	History	The Department of History offers courses in Japanese history.	Culture	This is the basic subject for area studies	"Culture" above includes most of the humanities areas.
16	University of Arizona	Japanese Langauge		Literature
17	University of British Columbia, Asian Library	Shunga	Faculty teaching, faculty & student research	Literature -- Contemporary	Undergraduate student study / reading, faculty/staff and community user interest and reading.	Women's Studies and Gender & Sexuality	Faculty research / teaching	Japanese government publications / statistics	Depository library for the NDL, faculty/student use	Manga (particularly sub-culture and BL)	Graduate student research
18	University of California, San Diego	Manshu, Chosen and Nanyo resources during Japanese occupation period	faculty research	Japanese finance and financial institutions	faculty research
19	University of Chicago	Osaka, Okinawa and Fukushima
20	University of Chicago	Fukushima	Atomic pile was produced at the University of Chicago firstly in the world and it is one of our main topics.	Medical policy and history	Faculty and grad. students who are digging for this topic since late Edo and Meiji, inc colonial areas
21	University of Florida	Modern history	A faculty member's insterst	Women's writing in Heian period	A faculty member's interest	Japanese language education	Class use	Japanese language research	A faculty member's interest	Japanese media studies	A faculty member's interest
22	University of Hawaii at Manoa	Ryukyu/Okinawa	focus area	Women's studies	faculty research	human migrations	enchance the core collections	issues during the colonial periods　(Korea, Manchuria, China)	enhancing the core collections & faculty research	organizatoinal & company histories (shashi)	capture not-for-sale publications	pop cultures (manga, anime, sub-cultures)	research interests
23	University of Kansas	Buddhist Art	Faculty's Research	Contemporary Art	Faculty's Research	Food Culture	Faculty's Research	Japanese Films	Faculty's Research	Ghosts, Spirits, Monsters	To Make the Collection Unique	Pop Culture (Manga)	To Make the Collection Unique
24	University of Maryland	1st Post WWII Occupation period publications; History of the period; Politics of the preiod	Support the Prange Collection related research	East Asian Arts	Faculty's research	Japanese language teaching	Faculty's research	Asian music	Faculty's research	Modern Japanese literature	Faculty's research
25	University of Pittsburgh	Ikeda Daisaku & Soka Gakkai Studies	Faculty research	Mizusawa Three Greats (Goto Shinpei, Saito Makoto, Takano Choei)	Faculty research	Modern history of Japan economics before WWII (especially focus on Takahashi Korekiyo)	Faculty research	Japanese Campany History (focus on Steel Industory, Finance and Securities, Manufacture)	Cooperative Collection Development by Shashi Group	Catalogs of major collections and exhbitiion catalogs of Paintings in Pre-Modern & Modern Period	Faculty and Ph.D. students research	Pre-modern history of Medicine (includes rare books)	Faculty research
26	University of Texas at Austin	20 th century literature		Meiji restoration		kokusei chosa		Colonial Taiwan
27	University of Virginia	Waka	Faculty's research	Joryū bungaku	Faculty's research	Bukkyō bijutsu	Faculty's research
28	University of Washington	Contemporary literature	Support research on contemporary Japan	Fujiwara no Teika	Faculty resarch	Zeami	Faculty reearch	Medieval Japanese literature/history	Faculty research	Article 9 Japanese constitution	Faculty reearch	Tantric - Buddhist art	Faculty research
29	University of Washington (pt. 2)	Tea ceremony	support faculty research	Shingon (Sect)	Faculty research	Shinto	Support teacing	Japanese architecture	Support faculty research	children's literature in all eras	Washington State depository	Japanese music (CDs and scores)	Endowment to support music collection
30	University of Washington (pt. 3)	Media materials (films, TV dramas, documentaries, etc)	Support teaching	Japanaese calligraphy	Supplementary area of faculty research	Budo (martial art)	UW historical collection	Popular culture in general	research on contemporary Japan	Theory and practices on the body	research on contemporary Japan	Beauty	research on contemporary Japan
31	University of Washington (pt.4)	Cooking, Japanese	Research on Japanese civilization	Etiquette for women & men	Research on Japanese civilization	Fashion/clothing	Research on Japanese civilization	Gender studies	Research on contemporary Japan	Hospitality industry	Research on contemporary Japan	Current issues (business, politics, social conditions)	research on contemporary Japan
32	University of Washington, Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library	Japanese legal materials, including current and legal history	To support a research collection for Law School faculty and students
33	Washington University in St. Louis	Repatriation (from/to Japan)	Faculty's research interest	Literature of the Meiji-Taisho periods (1868-1926)	Faculty's research interest	Japanese biographical and autobiographical literature	Faculty's research interest	Japanese literary journalism	Faculty's research interest	Modern Japanese Women Writers	Faculty's research interest	Japanese Literature in Translation	Faculty's research interest
34	Washington University in St. Louis (pt. 2)	medieval and early modern reception of classical literature	Faculty's research interest	book and publishing history	Faculty's research interest	gender issues in premodern literature	Faculty's research interest	goddess in Japan	Faculty's research interest	SF and female body	Graduate student's research interest	Christian literature in Japan	Graduate student's research interest
35	Yale University 2	Local histories of Kinki and Chugoku region	Cooperative collection development within the East Coast Consortium of EAL
36	Yale University Library	LGBTQ	Along with the strong LGBTQ collection at Yale, the library has been collecting materials on LGBTQ communities in Japan. Faculty’s ongoing commitment to the subject.	Edo in general (history, literature, arts, performing arts and religion)	Department’s particular focus. Interdisciplinary research subject committed by faculty & library.	Literature in general (currently esp. Zainichi, colonial, Buddhist text, poetry and prose genres)	Department’s traditional strength & faculty/student current interests.	Japanese film ephemera and film & media in general	Focus area faculty & grad students actively engage with. Library is committed to expand film & media-related materials for research purpose.	Baseball and sports in general	Faculty’s current research, esp. anthropological approach to the subject.	Religion in general (currently Buddhism, Christianity, Shinto and Buddhist art)	One of the active research fields at Yale.
37	Harvard-Yenching Library	History of Science		Avant-Garde arts and literature		Pop culture		Local History: North of Tokyo