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World Languages, Literatures & Cultures: Japanese-日本人

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Call Numbers for Japanese Language and Literature Books

Japanese language books are located on the 3rd floor of Walker Library under the call numbers of 495.6. Japanese literature is on the 4th floor.

495.6 Japanese language
895.6 Japanese literature

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Reference Books

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture by Sandra Buckley (Editor)
Call Number: Reference - Walker Library - 1st Floor 952.04 En1b

These are a few of the books on Japanese Language in the Reference Collection on the first floor of Walker Library

Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary by Jack Halpern
Call Number: Reference - Walker Library - 1st Floor 495.632 K81h
Kodansha's Furigana Japanese Dictionary by Kodansha Ltd. Staff
Call Number: Reference - Walker Library - 1st Floor 495.632 Y83k
The Kanji Dictionary by Wolfgang Hadamitzky; Mark Spahn
Call Number: Reference - Walker Library - 1st Floor 495.6 Sp1
Japan : an illustrated encyclopedia
Call Number: Reference - Walker Library - 1st Floor 032 J27

Books

God's Boat by Kaori Ekuni; Chikako Kobayashi (Translator)
Call Number: 895.636 Ek82kE 4th floor
Death by Choice by Masahiko Shimada; Meredith McKinney (Translator)
Call Number: 895.635 Sh62jE 4th floor
A Cappella by Mariko Koike; Juliet W. Carpenter (Translator)
Call Number: 895.636 K82mE 4th floor
Day in the Life by Senji Kuroi; Giles Murray (Translator)
Call Number: 895.635 K96dE 4th floor
Tokyo Seven Roses by Hisashi Inoue; Jeffrey Hunter (Translator)
Call Number: 895.635 In71tE 4th floor
In Search of the God-Demon and Other Stories by Juko Nishimura; Jeffrey Hunter (Translator)
Call Number: 895.636 N63sE 4th floor
The Isle of South Kamui and Other Stories by Kyotaro Nishimura; Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
Call Number: 895.635 N63mE 4th floor
A Thousand Strands of Black Hair by Seiko Tanabe; Meredith McKinney (Translator)
Call Number: 895.635 T15cE 4th floor
Ghosts and Lower-Class Samurai, and Other Stories by Hideyuki Kikuchi; Ian MacDonald (Translator)
Call Number: 895.66 K55tE
Wasabi for Breakfast by Foumiko Kometani; Mary Goebel Noguchi (Translator)
Call Number: 895.635 K83nE 4th floor
In Pursuit of Lavender by Akiko Itoyama; Charles De Wolf (Translator)
Call Number: 895.636 It6tE 4 floor
Short Stories in Japanese = 日本語の短篇小說 by Michael Emmerich
Call Number: 895.63 Sh81 4th floor
Exploring Japanese Literature by Giles Murray
Call Number: 895.63 Ex74 4th floor

Online Dictionary

BAB.LA English-Japanese Online Dictionary

Grammar Guide/Language Instruction

BBC Learning Japanese
Easy Japanese
NHK offers easy free lessons
Foreign Service Institute Language Courses (free)

Pronounciation Guide

Forvo-Japanese

Asahi Shimbun 朝日新聞 (Tôkyô)

Web Sites

CCSF Japan links
A number of good links about Japanese language and Japan from the City College of San Francisco. (page is now an archive.)
Rosetta Stone
Limited to Campus computer use. Limited to MTSU students enrolled in foreign languages.
Japanese Archive of Print Publications
The Gordon W. Prange Collection is the most comprehensive archive in the world of Japanese print publications issued during the early years of the Occupation of Japan, 1945-1949.

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