I recently started working at the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU). When I was preparing for my move to the post, I began exploring some of the tools that the organization has developed. One in particular surprised me, the Resource Guide for Japanese Studies and Humanities in Japan. As the name suggests, it is a repository of different resources for Japanese studies. A simple initiative, which I had not yet come across in my journey in Japanese studies. The Resource Guide is a little different to the sort of repositories for Japanese studies we have before. Japan Search—which I have been both critical of and subsequently reassessed—for example gives access to materials (texts, images, videos etc.) from different resource providers within a single portal, this list however gives access only to the different projects of which there are 481 currently listed. This article (re-)introduces readers to the Resource Guide and provide a brief introduction to its features.
