Celebrity diaries constitute an essential resource for researching modern Japanese history. Scholars examine the diarists’ lives, thoughts, social networks, and…
Since its founding in 2013, The Digital Orientalist has grown from a research blog by Cornelis van Lit to an…
This guest contribution was written by Dr. Stephanie Santschi, who is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Zurich’s Department…
Part 1 can be read here. The Zaibatsu had dominated Japanese business and industry for decades before WWII. They monopolised…
Over the past year, I have been working on a textual analysis project exploring Japanese understandings of Judaism, Israel, and…
Although resources for learning to read or assist with deciphering cursive Japanese script found in historical books and documents are…
Introduction In 2021, Japan’s NDL launched a project to digitise around 300,000 books (approximately 45 million digital images) in that…
This article was co-authored by guest contributors Raúl Cervera Álvarez (Universitat de Barcelona) and Celia Gonzalez Diaz (Universitat Autonoma de…
Those who have spoken to me about transcription might know that I swear by Furigana Bunko. Sadly, I rarely find…
Since my last Editor’s Digest back in February, the Northeast Asian Studies team alongside several guest contributors have published an…
