Library Catalogs
For books and e-books offered by the UC Berkeley Library, consult the Library's Find Books and E-Books page first. In the U.S.-based catalogs such as OskiCat, Japanese language materials can be searched either using original Japanese scripts (ひらがな, カタカナ, 漢字) or the modified Hepburn Romanization (transliteration) system. LC (Library of Congress) and ALA (American Library Association) Romanization Table for Japanese offers detailed explanation of the guidelines that most U.S. libraries follow when romanizing Japanese materials.
In Melvyl, WorldCat, etc., click on the REQUEST or UC-eLinks button for Inter-library loan requests. UC Berkeley faculty, registered graduate students, and staffs can also borrow materials from Stanford University Library through Research Library Cooperative Program (RLCP). For requesting materials from Stanford University Library, please use RLCP Borrowing Request forms.
For books held by libraries in Japan, use the following databases to locate materials:
- Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan Sāchi 国立国会図書館サーチ: Covers holdings of the National Diet Library (NDL) and other libraries, museums, and archives in Japan, including digital archives. For searching NDL's digitized holdings only, use Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan Dejitaruka Shiryō 国立国会図書館デジタル化資料. Use Kindai Degitaru Raiburarī 近代デジタルライブラリー (Digital Library from the Meiji Era) for those available on Internet only.
- WebcatPlus: Covers holdings of university libraries in Japan. Also available as a part of GeNii, an Integrated search system, consisting of CiNii, WebcatPlus, Kaken, Academic Research Database Repository, and JAIRO.
Possible Starting Points
Genbaku wa bungaku ni dō egakarete kita ka 原爆は文学にどう描かれてきたか / Kuroko Kazuo. Call No.: East Asian PL726.82.H52 K87 2005
Gendai bungaku kenkyū : jōhō to shiryō 現代文学研究 : 情報と資料 / henshū Hasegawa Izumi, Call No.: East Asian Ref. Z3308.L5 G28 1986
Kindai sensō bungaku jiten 近代戦争文学事典 / Yano Kan'ichi hen. Call No.: East Asian PL721.W3 Y36 1992
Korekushon Sensō to bungaku コレクション戦争と文学. Call No.: East Asian PL777.82.W65 K67 2011
Nihon bungaku kenkyū bunken yōran : gendai Nihon bungaku 日本文学研究文献要覧: 現代日本文学: Covers books and articles published on contemporay Japanese literature in every five years since 1975
Sensō bungaku zenshū 戦争文学全集 / Hirano Ken ... [ra] hen. Call No.: East Asian 5880.7.6207.5