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Category: Japanese Studies

Minna de Honkoku and the Cambridge Summer School in Japanese Early Modern Palaeography: An Interview, Part 2
DH in Practice, Japanese Studies, Online Resources, Teaching

Minna de Honkoku and the Cambridge Summer School in Japanese Early Modern Palaeography: An Interview, Part 2

Today I am happy to introduce the second and final part of our interview with Prof. Hashimoto Yuta (National Museum … Continue reading Minna de Honkoku and the Cambridge Summer School in Japanese Early Modern Palaeography: An Interview, Part 2

Minna de Honkoku and the Cambridge Summer School in Japanese Early Modern Palaeography: An Interview, Part 1
DH in Practice, Japanese Studies, Online Resources, Teaching

Minna de Honkoku and the Cambridge Summer School in Japanese Early Modern Palaeography: An Interview, Part 1

Long term readers of the Digital Orientalist will likely remember pieces that I wrote on “Digital Resources for Japanese Palaeography” … Continue reading Minna de Honkoku and the Cambridge Summer School in Japanese Early Modern Palaeography: An Interview, Part 1

“I Just Want the Data!”: A Short Guide to GSI Japan for Non-Japanese-Speaking Users
DH in Practice, Digital Cartography, Japanese Studies, Online Resources

“I Just Want the Data!”: A Short Guide to GSI Japan for Non-Japanese-Speaking Users

The volume of digitally available Japanese research materials and the databases that hold them are increasing by the year. This … Continue reading “I Just Want the Data!”: A Short Guide to GSI Japan for Non-Japanese-Speaking Users

Denshi Jisho: Are they still worth your time?
Hardware, Japanese Studies, Workflow

Denshi Jisho: Are they still worth your time?

With the rise of smartphone technology, the market for electronic dictionaries (J. Denshi jisho 電子辞書) has gradually shrunk. When I … Continue reading Denshi Jisho: Are they still worth your time?

An Interview with Untitled.Showa
DH in Practice, Japanese Studies

An Interview with Untitled.Showa

Untitled.Showa is a platform that uses crowdsourcing in an attempt to uncover information about and (re)unite a number of old … Continue reading An Interview with Untitled.Showa

Using Voyant Tools with Historical Japanese Texts
Japanese Studies, Online Resources, Textual Analysis, Visualization

Using Voyant Tools with Historical Japanese Texts

Lu Wang’s recent two-piece series (part 1 and part 2) on using Voyant Tools to analyse Chinese language texts captured … Continue reading Using Voyant Tools with Historical Japanese Texts

Basic Python for Japanese Studies: Using fugashi for Text Segmentation
Coding, Japanese Studies

Basic Python for Japanese Studies: Using fugashi for Text Segmentation

Look at the following Japanese sentence from Uchimura Kanzō’s 内村鑑三 Denmarukukoku no hanashi デンマルク国の話 (1911): 今日は少しこの世のことについてお話しいたそうと欲(おも)います。 Full text accessible here. … Continue reading Basic Python for Japanese Studies: Using fugashi for Text Segmentation

Library Holdings, Duplication and Digitization: Resources on the History of the Ashio Copper Mine
Archiving, Digitization, Japanese Studies

Library Holdings, Duplication and Digitization: Resources on the History of the Ashio Copper Mine

Earlier this year I published a short piece in The Digital Orientalist entitled “Digital Resources for Studying the History of … Continue reading Library Holdings, Duplication and Digitization: Resources on the History of the Ashio Copper Mine

Google Docs and OCR: Some Experiments Transcribing Japanese Language Texts
Japanese Studies, OCR, Online Resources, Workflow

Google Docs and OCR: Some Experiments Transcribing Japanese Language Texts

In the past year or so I have been seeing and hearing an increasing amount about the capabilities of Google … Continue reading Google Docs and OCR: Some Experiments Transcribing Japanese Language Texts

Digital Resources for Studying the History of the Ashio Copper Mine
Digitization, Japanese Studies, Online Resources

Digital Resources for Studying the History of the Ashio Copper Mine

I am currently working on a research project on the Ashio Copper Mine Pollution Incident (J. Ashio kōdoku jiken 足尾鉱毒事件) … Continue reading Digital Resources for Studying the History of the Ashio Copper Mine

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