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Japanese Studies Collections In The United States: A Historical Perspective, Eizaburo Okuizumi Dec 1993

Japanese Studies Collections In The United States: A Historical Perspective, Eizaburo Okuizumi

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Half A Century Of Japanese Cataloging At Columbia University, Miwa Kai Dec 1993

Half A Century Of Japanese Cataloging At Columbia University, Miwa Kai

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.


The International Outreach Of American Librarianship: Historical Notes On Some Intiatives In Asia, Warren M. Tsuneishi Dec 1993

The International Outreach Of American Librarianship: Historical Notes On Some Intiatives In Asia, Warren M. Tsuneishi

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.


Developing New Japanese Collections And Services At The University Of California, San Diego, 1988-1993, Eiji Yutani Dec 1993

Developing New Japanese Collections And Services At The University Of California, San Diego, 1988-1993, Eiji Yutani

Journal of East Asian Libraries

March 15 of this year marked the fifth anniversary of my arrival at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). On a bright, warm spring day in 1988,1 moved to the arid, scenic suburban La Jolla campus from the equally beautiful and balmy city of Berkeley where I had worked as a Japanese bibliographer for the century-old University of California, Berkeley (UCB) Library for two and a half decades. The past five years here in southern California have been one of the finest chapters of my professional life — perhaps the last — and a truly fascinating one. As I …


Special Reports, Mihoko Miki, Yasuko Matsudo, Tai-Loi Ma, Amy V. Heinrich, Kimii Mitsui Jun 1993

Special Reports, Mihoko Miki, Yasuko Matsudo, Tai-Loi Ma, Amy V. Heinrich, Kimii Mitsui

Journal of East Asian Libraries

This task force was formed in August 1992 to work for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Foreign acquisitions Project for Japanese materials. The charge of the task force is to write a report which assesses current strengths and weaknesses of the major United States and Canadian Japanese research collections, determines their needs and priorities, and offers concrete action/funding proposals to address the identified problems. Fortunately, a number of previous reports and studies on the issues are available, and we reviewed and studied them carefully, including the "Survey" (1980) by Naomi Fukuda, the Perushek Report (1990), and the reports of …


Kai Eduard Rasmussen: A Danish American Hero, Val Hempel Jan 1993

Kai Eduard Rasmussen: A Danish American Hero, Val Hempel

The Bridge

Over the years, ever since immigration to the United States began, hundreds and thousands of Danes have crossed the Atlantic to begin new lives, to work, to settle and to become Americans. The vast majority of them have helped strengthen and build their adopted land, enrich its culture and add durable strands to that multicolored fabric that is America. Many stepped lightly and left few tracks while others broke bold new trails. A few fashioned memorable evidences of their journeys. Names such as Peter Lassen, Jacob Riis, William S. Knudsen, Jean Hersholdt, Victor Borge and others are known to millions. …


History Of The Foreign Lawyer In Japan, Patrick Duffin Jan 1993

History Of The Foreign Lawyer In Japan, Patrick Duffin

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

The foreign lawyer in Japan has enjoyed periods of relative freedom to practice law as well as being subject to rigid restrictions limiting the accessibility of the legal market. The focus of this paper will be the significant events in the history of the foreign lawyer in Japan from the first influences of Western law in the late 1800's to the 1986 Special Measures Law Concerning the Handling of Legal Business by Foreign Lawyers.


Institutionalized Corruption And Political Reform In Japan, Louis D. Hayes Jan 1993

Institutionalized Corruption And Political Reform In Japan, Louis D. Hayes

Selected Papers in Asian Studies: Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies

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