Research Guides: Guide to Locating Japanese & Okinawa-related Resources: Find Articles

Online Databases for English Article Search (GW ID holders/Onsite access)

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This academic multi-disciplinary database provides than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition, it offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1887.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Back issues of core scholarly journals in subjects including African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, classics, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics. Includes free Early-Journal Content, journals published before 1923 in the U.S. and before 1870 outside of the U.S.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Articles and reviews from peer-reviewed, scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
International Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Current indexing and abstracting of the world's leading journals in political science. Simultaneous users: 8
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides citations to the international periodical literature in political science and its complementary fields.

Asia-Pacific Journal Japan Focus
Peer-reviewed online publication in multidisciplinary fields such as international relations,
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economics, history, and culture in all Asia regions.
Association of Japanese Institute of Strategic Studies (AJISS)
Present a variety of Japanese views on international relations.
Council on Foreign Relations
Independent and nonpartisan organization. Under 'Topics' you can read full-text on Defense and Security, Peace, Conflict and
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Human Rights, Politics and Strategy,Development, Economics, Energy and Environment, Global Governance, Health, Society and Culture, Technology and Science, and Terrorism.
East Asian Strategic Review
Flagship publication of the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)/防衛省防衛研究所.
Foreign Affairs
Magazines for US foreign policy and international relations. The website publishes daily.
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Available online 1922 - present. (GW ID holders only)
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National Bureau of Asian Research
Includes Strategic Asia Database which tracks key indicators related to the strategic environment in the Asia Pacific.

CiNii (サイニィ) This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator, CiNii (pronounced like "sigh-knee"), enables searching of information on academic articles published in academic journals, university research bulletins, or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database. Access to full text documents is possible with 3.2 million of the 12 million articles currently available.
Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shusei Databesu (雑誌記事索引集成データベース) This link opens in a new window
The Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shusei Databesu (雑誌記事索引集成データベース) database consists of index data of magazines and periodicals published from the Meiji Era to the present. In addition to the full National Diet Library current periodicals index, the database includes general and local periodicals and academic journals from before World War II. The number of the articles within the database is well over 110 million.

Bibliographic Information Database of Okinawa Materials (BIDOM) / 沖縄文献情報データベース
- Created by University of the Ryukyus.
- Searchable both in Japanese and English for articles that may not be included in CiNii.
University of Tsukuba Library / 筑波大学付属図書館沖縄歴史文献データベース検索
Search for bibliographic information on Okinawan history from 59 files.
CiNii Articles
This is an open-access to search books in Japan.
University of the Ryukyus Repository / 琉球大学学術レポジトリ
- You can search any academic papers published by the University of the Ryukyus.
- Repository in English
- Repository for Journal "International review of Ryukyuan and Okinawan studies" (vo.1/2010 ~ vol.7/2016) published by University of the Ryukyus, International Institute for Okinawan Studies (IIOS).
- In April 2018, the IIOS changed its name to Research Institute for Islands and Sustainability.

To search for newspaper articles, please go to Newspaper tab of this research guide.

For English Dissertation Search: (GW ID Holders or Onsite Access)

Dissertations and Theses Online This link opens in a new window
Contains information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses from over 1,000 North American and European universities. Includes citations ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to ones accepted as recently as last semester. Of over 1.5 million titles listed, Proquest offers over a million in full text. For these titles, the citation includes the Proquest order number.

For Japanese Dissertation Search: (Open-Access)

Japanese Institutional Repositories Online
- You can search for journal articles, theses or dissertations, departmental bulletin papers, research papers, etc. published in Japanese academic information.
- As of October 2008, the Repositories contains approximately 540,000 contents in 84 institutional repositories.
CiNii Dissertation Search
- Searchable both in Japanese and English for both Japanese and English articles.
- If a searched article is included in a institutional repository, full text can be viewed.

Available at the Okinawa Collection/Japan Resource Center on the 7th Floor of Gelman Library.

For more specifi area studies, please refer to the following periodicals:

International Relations

Economics