Resources for Japanese Studies With over 116,800 Japanese
monographic volume holdings, 300 current serial titles, and
other resources, the Japanese collection ranks the 15th in North
America. The Japanese collection has notable strengths in
Japanese economic history, linguistics and pedagogy, medical
history, modern literature, history and culture of Japanese
movies, pre-modern history of art, and religion of pre-modern
period. New subjects are also under development, such as
classics, religion of contemporary period, and mass media and
identity of contemporary period. One of the valuable part of the
Japanese Collection is the Mitsui Collection recently donated by
the Institute for Financial and Economic Research (金融経済研究所) of
the former Mitsui Bank. It is one of the best collections on
Japanese finance, the former Japanese colonies (Taiwan,
Manchuria, Korea) and international finance. It also contains
materials on labor problem, social movement, company and local
histories, pre- and post-war biographies, and