Japan and the Japanese: A Bibliographic Guide to Reference Sources
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Japan and the Japanese: A Bibliographic Guide to Reference Sources
By (Author) Yasuko Makino
By (author) Mihoko Miki
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Greenwood Press
18th June 1996
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Bibliographies, catalogues
016.952
Physical Properties
Hardback
168
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
369g
Description
A useful guide to English-language reference materials on Japan and the Japanese, this selective annotated bibliography is designed for use by information seekers at all levels. It covers topics ranging from art, music, and literature to economics, people and society, politics, religion, and science and technology. Part I covers general reference works, while Part II covers materials on specific subject areas. The guide will also provide a useful collection development tool for librarians who want to strengthen their English-language materials on Japan, an area long neglected.
Reviews
A useful guide to English-language reference materials on Japan and the Japanese, this selective annotated bibliography is designed for use by information seekers at all levels...This guide will also provide a useful collection development tool for librarians who want to strengthen their English-language materials on Japan...-Asian Reporter
"A useful guide to English-language reference materials on Japan and the Japanese, this selective annotated bibliography is designed for use by information seekers at all levels...This guide will also provide a useful collection development tool for librarians who want to strengthen their English-language materials on Japan..."-Asian Reporter
Author Bio
YASUKO MAKINO is the Japanese Studies Librarian at the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University. She is the author of A Student Guide to Japanese Sources in the Humanities (1994), and Japan Through Children's Literature: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1985). MIHOKO MIKI is head of the Acquisitions Division and Japan Librarian at the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the compiler of Union List of Current Japanese Serials in Six East Asian Libraries of Western North America (1988), and National Union List of Current Japanese Serials in North America (1992).
