Mapping Prefectural-Level Financial Mobilisation in Wartime Japan
The Japanese government was able to sustain total war against the Allied Powers for almost half a decade after losing…
Category: Japanese Studies
Overview of NDL Kotenseki OCR: The Key to Early Modern Japanese Archives?
This article was written by guest contributor Xia-Kang Ziyi (Kyushu University). The author bio is below. One of the biggest…
Politicians Speak: An Introduction to the Database System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet
Japanese historians often cite the minutes of the Imperial Diet[1] to demonstrate changes in state policy and the views of…
Suggesting a Language-Specific Gender Perspective for AI Translation Research
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities)…
From Print to Place: Creating an Integrative Geolocalization Workflow Using Citizen Scientists and Computer Vision AI
This contribution is based on a presentation given at The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2025 (AI and the Digital Humanities)…
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…
Digital Storytelling in the Digitisation of Japanese Botanical Specimens in RBG, Kew’s Collections
For the past year and a half, I have worked as a digitisation quality assurance and team leader at Royal…