Three Months of DuckDuckGo: Reflections after Partially “De-Googling”
In September 2025 I published a piece entitled “Alternatives to Google: Is DuckDuckGo Useful for Research?” where I explored whether…
Author: James Harry Morris
Chorded Input and the Japanese Language: An Introduction and Invitation
Those of us who use languages written in the Latin alphabet likely don’t think much about how we input text.…
Online Teaching Resources on Shinto
I have taught an introductory English-language course to religions in Japan for several years making use of available online resources…
Editor’s Digest October 2025: Northeast Asian Studies
In my first Editor’s Digest, I explored all publications in The Digital Orientalist within Northeast Asian Studies from September 2023…
The Resource Guide for Japanese Studies and Humanities in Japan: A Brief (Re-?)Introduction
I recently started working at the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU). When I was preparing for my move to…
Alternatives to Google: Is DuckDuckGo Useful for Research?
Google’s privacy issues are fairly well-known—there is even a Wikipedia page about it. Even if we don’t know the details,…
On Voyant Tools, Stopword Lists, and Japanese Textual Analysis and Visualisation
Over the past year, I have been working on a textual analysis project exploring Japanese understandings of Judaism, Israel, and…
Digital Resources for Reading Japanese Seals
Although resources for learning to read or assist with deciphering cursive Japanese script found in historical books and documents are…
Using Furigana Bunko
Those who have spoken to me about transcription might know that I swear by Furigana Bunko. Sadly, I rarely find…
Editor’s Digest November 2024: Northeast Asian Studies
Since my last Editor’s Digest back in February, the Northeast Asian Studies team alongside several guest contributors have published an…