Staff within the Faculty of Oriental Studies

Dr J Corbett

Dr Linda M. Flores

Courses taught : Modern Japanese Literature in Translation, Second Year Unseen Translation (University Lecturer in Japanese Literature, Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College)

Dr Bjarke Frellesvig

Courses taught : Old Japanese, Classical Japanese, Japanese grammar, History and structure of Japanese, Japanese linguistics (University Lecturer in Japanese Linguistics; Fellow of Hertford College)

Professor Roger Goodman

Courses taught : Social anthropology of Japan (Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies)

Ms Junko Hagiwara

Courses taught : Japanese for Undergraduate Japanologists, Japanese for Postgraduate Sinologists (MSt / PRS), Non-Intensive Japanese (Instructor in Japanese)

Dr Phillip T. Harries

Courses taught : Japanese to English translation, Classical Japanese literary texts, Introduction to Classical Japanese, Modern Japanese literary texts, History of Japanese literature, Aspects of Introduction fo Premodern Japanese History and Culture, Postgraduate supervision for M.St., M.Litt., D.Phil. ( University Lecturer in Japanese; Fellow in Japanese)

Ms Hiroe Kaji

Courses taught : Undergraduate Japanese courses, Sinology postgraduate translation course, Non-Intensive Japanese language course (Japanese Language Instructor)

Dr I. J. McMullen

Courses taught : Classical and modern literary and historical texts, Unseen translation (Departmental Lecturer in Japanese (retired University lecturer); TEPCo Tutorial Fellow in Japanese, (Pembroke College) Introduction to premodern Japanese history and culture.

Dr Ian Neary

Courses taught : Japanese Politics (University Lecturer in Japanese Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations)

Ms Kaori Nishizawa

Courses taught : The Japanese Economy, The Economies of the OECD Countries, Japanese Text Translation (Instructor in Japanese)

Dr Mark E. Rebick

Courses taught : University Lecturer in the Economy of Japan in the Department of Economics
Fellow of St Antony's College
Member of Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Director, Asian Studies Centre, St Antony's College

Dr A. Waswo

Staff who carry out research in Japanese Studies but are not in the Faculty of Oriental Studies or the Nissan Institute

Mrs Izumi K Tytler

is the Bodleian Japanese Librarian at Oxford in charge of the Japanese resources. She is situated at the Bodleian Japanese Library (BJL) at the Nissan Institute. Other staff include Yuki Kissick (Assistant Librarian), Rie Williams, and Hitomi Hall.

Tel: (01865) 284506
Fax: (01865) 284500
E-mail: japanese@bodley.ox.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/oriental/allegro.htm

The University's principal collection relating to Japan is housed in BJL. The Library holds about 16,200 Japan related books in western languages and about 75,000 in Japanese. It receives 129 Japan-related journals in western languages and 506 journals in Japanese. The annual expenditure on Japan-related library resources is about £80,000 to £90,000; and the annual intake is approximately 3,000 volumes.
The prime responsibility of the BJL is to acquire current material in support of teaching and research as undertaken by Oxford specialists in Japanese, both in the general humanities and social sciences, regardless of the language in which this is expressed or the place of publication. In scope, the collection is restricted to the humanities and social sciences, in which works are acquired which relate to the history and culture of Japan .

With the exception of the history of science, no attempt is made to collect in the field of the natural sciences, which are the responsibility of the Radcliffe Science Library (the Scientific Books Department of the Bodleian Library). As far as finance permits, all major works of reference are acquired.

The history of the Bodleian Japanese language collection goes back to the first days of the Library, the earliest acquisition having reached the Bodleian as early as 1629. The collection comprises manuscripts and antiquarian printed books as well as modern publications. The fields of literature, religion, history and politics are particularly strongly represented. The collection of Japanese local histories is probably the foremost such collection outside Japan . Works in European languages are extensively acquired. In cases where these come to the Library under the terms of copyright deposit, certain titles are duplicated for inclusion in the loan collection.

Works relating to the fine arts are selectively acquired and housed in the Eastern Art Library of the Ashmolean Museum , also a dependent library of the Bodleian Library. A loan collection of material on Japanese required for teaching purposes at the Oriental Institute is held in the Oriental Institute Library. The Oxford allegro Catalogue of Japanese Books was inaugurated in stand-alone form in July 1993. It has been available online since 1994, and the www version was created in 1997. It is a unified catalogue which gives details of Japanese books and periodicals held in the Bodleian Japanese Library and other Oxford libraries, thus giving readers much better access to the University's Japanese holdings than has been possible hitherto. It is searchable both in original script and in romanisation.

Work on converting the card catalogues of the BJL holdings has been completed and those of the other Japanese collections is almost completed. All catalogue records in the allegro catalogue are also included in the UK Union Catalogue of Japanese Books (see separate section on the Japan Library Group). Access to the allegro catalogue, including the allegro version of the UK union catalogue of Japanese books, is now possible from any external location, through telnet (erl.ox.ac.uk or 163.1.62.50), or Internet ( http://www .bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/oriental/allegro.htm). To view the catalogues, an appropriate front-end processor of the type normally used to browse Japanese web pages is needed - such as UnionWay. Western works are catalogued in OLIS (Oxford Library Information System), which can be accessed through Telnet (library.ox.ac.uk or 129.67.1.46) or internet: GeoWeb ( http://library.ox.ac.uk/ ).

To meet the national need for Japanese material, the BJL lends through the interlibrary lending system and is one of the ‘back-up' libraries for the British Library through the British Library Documentation Supply Centre. Through the National Institute of Informatics or NII (previously known as the National Centre for Science Information Systems or NACSIS), the Bodleian Japanese Library is able to provide its readers with a direct and quick photocopying service, using the online facilities of the NACSIS-IR system. Photocopies may be requested for monographs and periodicals which are not held in the UK . Remote databases, to which access is possible at the BJL include: NACSIS-IR (the NII - formerly NACSIS - Information Retrieval system, including about 39 databases), Web version of the Japanese Periodicals Index (Zasshi kiji sakuin), Bodleian networked services / Internet information services.

A video collection, originally set up in support of Social Anthropology courses, now holds over 200 tapes, including Japanese films and television programmes. They can be viewed in the new Media Room in the BJL.