HIST398: Japanese National Disasters: Primary Sources

Full image Japanese American and other overseas Japanese newspapers in Asia and South America (in English and Japanese).

2 Seattle-based Japanese-American newspapers from 1902-1950 mostly in Japanese but with some translated front pages.

set of disaster/catfish prints from the Tokugawa period

English interface available.

Digital images of newspaper clippings. Japanese-only searchable database contains Japanese full-text of the articles as well as images, but available newspaper articles are limited to the pre-1945 period.

English interface for National Diet Library, keyword searches will need to be in Japanese and results will be in Japanese.

English interface for Waseda University Library, keyword searches will need to be in Japanese and results will be in Japanese.

Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online, this collection features a range of primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the 19th century.