Japanese Studies – Page 4

El Archivo de las Índias (the General Archive of the Indies) and the PARES Project: A Brief Introduction and Review

This is a guest post by Raúl Cervera, with special thanks to David Perez Arcé. See information about the author…

Overview Part of the digital edition of the Tennō kōzoku jitsuroku 天皇皇族實錄 [Records of the Emperor and the Imperial Family]…

This is a post by contributing writer, Emma Donington-Kiey, an independent researcher and MA graduate of Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies from…

It is a rarity that writers at the Digital Orientalist explore projects that might be described as “DH for fun,”…

“For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned,” Benjamin Franklin wrote. Personally, lack of organization has always been…

At the Digital Orientalist we tend to review a lot of projects, tools and databases, but when we do so…

Recently, a new project aiming at collecting and publicizing documents and books related to nikkei (descendants of Japanese emigrants) in…

This is a gust post by Joanne Bernardi This post introduces readers to Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th…

This guest contribution is written by Anna Oskina. Introduction In my previous post, I showed how to extract proper names…

The Digital Orientalist has long published pieces pertaining to the study of the history of Christianity in Japan. In 2021,…