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Dear Reader,

The ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR
(including all its subsidiary (and/or sister) pages on "coombs.anu.edu.au" server) has permanently ceased its publishing operations on Friday 21st January 2011.

All of the online resources reported here have been thoroughly checked at the time of their listing. However, it is possible that, with the with the passage of time, many of the originally reported materials might have been removed from the Internet, or changed their online address, or varied the scope and quality of their contents.

Fortunately, in several cases it is possible to access many of the older versions of the resources listed in the MONITOR. This can be easily done via the free services of the "The Internet Archive" http://web.archive.org/, a remarkable brainchild of Brewster Kahle, San Francisco, CA.

- with warm regards -

Editor, Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.

Canberra, 21 January 2011.

23 May 2006

Hepburn Japanese-English-Japanese Dictionary Online

http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/mgda/index.html

5star
12 May 2006

Meiji Gakuin University Library Digital Archives, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo and Kanagawa, Japan

Supplied note:
"'James Curtis Hepburn' (Waegoi rinshuusei) is now available online at [the URL below] as part of the Digital Archives of Meiji Gakuin University.
The two sections -- Japanese-English and English-Japanese -- are a rich source for expressions current in Meiji Japan. Members of this list may sometimes find it useful to check the dictionary for information about older usages.

The sections of the dictionary have been digitzed and are available as graphic images. With a good internet connection, these will load quickly, and can be navigated so that you can browse through the dictionaries.

There is a basic search function. Note that you should choose first the 'EiWa no bu' or 'WaEi no bu.' The search function does not cover words in definitions, but simply gets to the page where -- alphabetically -- you might *expect* to find the headword.

Graphic digitization has certain advantages as well as disadvantages over electronic texts. All the rubi and rare characters can be displayed in a graphic text, for example, which is not always possible in an electronic text, even with Unicode. - mw."

[A site in Japanese, with minor uses of English for navigation purposes - ed.]

URL
http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/mgda/index.html

Internet Archive (www.archive.org)
[the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

Link reported by:
Michael Watson (watson--at--k.meijigakuin.ac.jp), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents/Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]:
Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300
Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

posted by tmciolek at Tuesday, May 23, 2006