Japan: History and Culture

Historical Abstracts is the premier database for world history (except for North America) covering history from 1450 to the present. Topics include world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. This database provides indexing for more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages and covers 1955 to the present.

• The database covers all languages, so if you only read English, filter your search results by clicking on the "All filters" button and then selecting a language from the list.

• Items from the journal Dissertation Abstracts International are not usually available. These items point to an abstract of a dissertation, not the dissertation itself. The dissertations are not available for interlibrary loan. Here is an example of a citation from Dissertation Abstracts International:

JSTOR contains full text of both journal articles and books. See these tips for making the most effective use of JSTOR to discover journal articles and books or book chapters on your topic:

1. Try using the FIELDS to limit your search terms. If you do not use the fields to limit your search, JSTOR will look for your search terms anywhere in the full text of the article. (Sometimes this is helpful, but most of the time, it results in too many irrelevant results.)

Tip: Think of synonyms and use the OR search operator to combine terms. Example: disease OR plague OR epidemic

Tip: Use the * as a truncation symbol to retrieve search terms with variant endings, for example: disease*

2. If you want to limit results to just articles or just books, after you see the results list, check one of the boxes to show a specific type of content:

3. After you see the results list, use the subject limit (on the left) to find content in a specific discipline: