HI473: Japan's Empire in Asia: 1868-1945

Primary Sources

The following research materials are available at NCSU or in other nearby libraries:

Journals

Contemporary Japan
D.H. Hill Lib. DS801.C6
Note: use 1932-34

Pacific Affairs
D.H. Hill Lib. DU1 .P3
Available electronically through JSTOR
Note: use 1928-1945

Government Documents

Records of the Department of State relating to internal affairs of Japan, 1910-1929 [microform]
D.H. Hill Microforms Room MFM110 and guide

Records of the Department of State relating to internal affairs of Korea (Chosen), 1910-1929 [microform]
D.H. Hill Microforms Room MFM 107 and guide

Records of the Department of State relating to internal affairs of China, 1910-1929 [microform]
D.H. Hill Microforms Room MFM 111 and guide

Newspapers

Japan Times (1897-1918), followed by Japan Times and Mail (1918-40) [microform]
UNC: Davis Library Microform Serial 1-364
Duke: Perkins Microfilms S134S

Japan Times & Mail 1932-1940:Oct.
D.H. Hill Microfilm Room AN8 .J36

Japan Times and Advertiser 1941-1942
D.H. Hill Microforms Room AN8 .J37

Japan Times Weekly (7 vols., 1938-40)
UNC-CH: Davis Library Folio AP8 .J36

The Trans-Pacific (weekly, 1919-40)
UNC-CH: 330.95 T772 (Storage)

Japan Chronicle (1918-1931)
UNC-CH:Per J35 (Storage)

Yearbooks and Annual Reports

Japan Year Book (24 vols., 1905-31)
UNC-CH: Davis Stacks DS803 .O7
Duke: Perkins stacks: 315.2 J35
(NCSU has a few volumes but not the run)

Japan Year Book (Foreign Affairs Association of Japan)1933-
D.H. Hill Lib. DS803.J52 (has 1933, 1938-39)
UNC-CH: Davis Stacks DS803.J52
Duke: Perkins Stacks 315.2 J35F

Japan Times Year Book (1933)
Duke: Perkins Stacks 915.2 J35TI

Japan-Manchoukuo Year Book (8 vols., 1934-41)
UNC-CH: DS803 .O7
Duke: Perkins Stacks 315.2 O69
(NCSU has 1938 only)
(followed by Orient Year Book)

Orient Yearbook, 1942
UNC-CH: Davis Stacks DS803 .O7
Duke: Perkins Stacks 315.2 O69
(later name for Japan-Manchoukuo Year Book)

Annual report on reforms and progress in Korea
Duke: (1907, 1909, 1911 eds.) Perkins Stacks 354.519 K84A
UNC-CH: (1911/12, 1918-22 eds.) Davis Stacks DS901 .A4

League of Nations, Permanent Mandates Commission Publications

Miscellaneous Publications. Reports of Mandatory Powers [microform]
34 microform reels
1922-1940
D.H. Hill Microforms Room JZ4895 .L65 1922-1940

C.P.M.[microform]
18 microfilm reels
1921-1945
D.H. Hill Microforms Room JZ4895 .L63

Minutes of the ... Session (8th-37th sessions)[microform]
6 microfilm reels
1921-1939
D.H. Hill Microforms Room JZ4895 .L64

Librarian Contact Information

Cindy Levine, Reference Librarian for the Humanities
515-2915
cindy_levine@ncsu.edu