Japanese - Guide to Using Yomidasu Rekishikan
The Yomidasu Rekishikan is a subscription database to the Yomiuri Newspaper. Please access it through the Libraries' Database page
Gendai Jinmeiroku
現代人名録 Gendai Jinmeiroku is a Who’s Who type of biographical database in contemporary Japan. It contains over 26,000 key persons who appear in 18 fields in the newspaper such as government (congressmen and congresswomen, heads of local government), art and culture, and sports. Frequently updated.
Names you can search in either kanji, hiragana, or katakana. Western names may also be searched in romaji.
Example
Here is an example from a search I did on Donald Keene. I typed in just the katakana for his family name キーン
From this brief screen I can see his name in katakana and hiragana. Male. Deceased. He was a Japanese literature specialist and professor at Columbia University. His main field was the arts.
And if I click on his name I will get a full listing.
Example 2
It is also possible to do a search by using the different categories. For example, you could look for all the literary authors who were born in Hokkaido.
