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Konrad M. Lawson

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Historian of modern East Asia he/him Lecturer at University of St Andrews From Stavanger, Norway Live in Edinburgh, Scotland Account searchable […] [bridged from social.coop/@konrad on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Another resource for students/historians: froginawell.net/reference/japan-docs Full text extracted (Sonnet 5.5) from over 500 speeches, treaties, laws, and misc. reports from a selection of (the very pro-Japanese empire) issues of the Tokyo Gazette and Contemporary Japan, mostly 1937-45.
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Sunday fun project: vibe coding an macOS app for cropping, page splitting, image adjusting, and merging as PDFs photo collections of documents/books etc. (after growing frustrated with multiple other apps I've used for this over the years). github.com/kmlawson/kettlestitch
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
In 1948, the civil information and education section of the US-led occupation forces in Japan wrote a nearly 50 page report on the history of foreign students in Japan 1896-1947 […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Statistical charts I've looked at in old Japanese sources really love scaled pictorial charts. I can't remember which source I found this from, but here we have 1935 global coffee consumption leaders. Sweden (7.75kg, I assume per year), Norway (6.95kg), and Denmark (6.9kg) in the lead.
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Weekend fun project: old tables. Extracted (using Opus 5.5) a few thousand statistical tables from a collection of English language year books related to East Asia. Link each table to (when possible) the relevant page of the scan of the original on Internet […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
@JMarkOckerbloom Thanks so much for that correction! I have updated that link to the SEA journal you mentioned: froginawell.net/frog/sources/open-a…
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Open Access Journals Related to East and Southeast Asia
Below is a list of English language open access journals that publish scholarship related to East and Southeast Asia. The peer-reviewed journals listed here make their articles available at no cost at the point of access (_free to readers_) and do not charge article processing charges for works that are submitted to the journal (_free to authors_). When a Creative Commons licence for the publication is listed, the specific license is indicated after the link. **Korea** Acta Koreana Korea Journal CC-BY-NC-ND Korean Anthropology Review The Review of Korean Studies CC-BY-NC-ND International Journal of Korean History CC-BY-NC Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies Journal offers subscription option for print version and has no mention of open access on the journal home page (May, 2021), but offers full open access to content. **China** British Journal of Chinese Studies CC-BY China Heritage China Perspectives Journal of Chinese Sociology Available at Springer but open access and no article-processing charges (May, 2021). Journal of Current Chinese Affairs Available at Sage Journals but open access and no article-processing charges (May, 2021). The Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies CC-BY-NC **Japan** Cipango: French Journal of Japanese Studies. English Selection Translated and adapted articles from French language counterpart journal. electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies Japanese Journal of Religious Studies CC-BY-NC Japan Review : Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies MINIKOMI: Austrian Journal of Japanese Studies Submissions are accepted in English, German, and Japanese. New Voices in Japanese Studies Guest editors of each volume must be affiliated with a university in Australia or New Zealand. AATJ Journal: Japanese Language and Literature **East and Southeast Asia** Archipel: Études interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien Includes articles in French and English. Asian Ethnology ASIANetwork Exchange Asia-Pacific Journal Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia Advances in Southeast Asian Studies CC-BY-NC-ND The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies East Asia Forum Shorter analysis and overview articles peer reviewed and published daily. East Asian History Education About Asia Has a paid print subscription but archives are open and online. Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines Includes articles in French and English. Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident Includes articles in French and English. Hmong Studies Journal Humanities Diliman: A Philippine Journal of Humanities IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies CC-BY-SA International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture No mention of open access on the journal home page (May, 2021), but full archive appears to be downloadable and no subscription information. International Journal of Indonesian Studies International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies CC-BY JATI – Journal of Southeast Asian Studies The Irish Journal of Asian Studies Journal of ASEAN Studies CC-BY-NC Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture CC-BY-NC Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia CC-BY-ND Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs Available at Sage Journals but open access and no article-processing charges (May, 2021). Journal of East-West Thought Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies CC-BY Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies CC BY-ND 4.0 Moussons: Recherche en sciences humaines sur l’Asie du Sud-Est Publishes articles in French and English. Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies CC-BY Sino-Japanese Studies Studia Orientalia Electronica CC-BY Studia Orientalia Slovaca Articles primarily in English, with some in Slovak or Czech. Taiwan Journal of Anthropology Articles primarily in Chinese, but some in English. Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies CC-BY **Full Access but Policy Unclear ** Asia Major Journal has some information on subscription and has no mention of open access on the journal home page (May, 2021) but full archive appears to be downloadable. Asian Women Journal has information on subscription and has no mention of open access on the journal home page (May, 2021) but full archive appears to be downloadable. Bulletin of the IHP Journal has some information on subscription and has no mention of open access on the journal home page (May, 2021) but full archive appears to be downloadable. Journal for Legal History Studies Journal has some information on subscription and has no mention of open access on the journal home page (May, 2021) but full archive appears to be downloadable. Journal of the Siam Society Journal has some information on subscription and has no mention of open access on the journal home page (May, 2021) but full archive appears to be downloadable. Disquisitions on the Past & Present Journal has some information on subscription and has no mention of open access on the journal home page (May, 2021) but full archive appears to be downloadable. Southeast Asian Social Science Review All articles appear to be downloadable via this link. Manuscript submission PDF doesn’t mention open access (Oct, 2022). Through another website it offers digital issues for purchase. **Embargoed Journals** Some journals have an embargo policy under which recent articles are closed, while older articles become automatically open access at the point of access, without the payment of article processing charges. Asian Medicine 5 year embargo New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 2 year embargo **Not Currently Active and Other ** Critical Asian Studies (1968-2000) This journal is still active but no longer open access. The archived version of its older issues are still accessible both at the archive.org link above and via the current publisher. Cross Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review (2011-2020) Early Modern Japan (1991-2014) Études chinoises (1983-2011) Includes articles in French and English. Korean Histories (2009-2013) **Finding Other Journals** Many of these journals are listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, which also offers a search engine for articles published open access in its indexed journals by title, author keyword, and abstract. In addition to the journals listed above, there are many other ‘green’ open access journals that do not offer free access to scholarship themselves, but permit authors to submit a copy of some version of the submitted article to a repository. Not all authors archive their work in repositories and the version they are permitted to save may not show the correct page numbers or reflect the final edits of an article. There are also many journals that allow authors to pay for the privilege of making an article ‘gold’ open access, either as a model for the entire journal, or on an article or special issue basis. The Sherpa Romeo database is a good place to explore these options for specific journals. **Contact** If you find broken links or errors in the information provided here, or want to suggest other journals related to East and Southeast Asia to have added here, please get in touch with Konrad M. Lawson (kmlawson@froginawell.net or on twitter @kmlawson).
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Started a new resource page mostly for students on Frog in a Well: Primary Sources: Modern Japanese History The main event is a searchable database of over 3,000 books and pamphlets etc. in western languages from 1850-1955 open access online […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
New update to the Interactive Map of the Japanese Empire. Explore and animate 1938 colonial Korean railways, and also the 1935 lines for Karafuto. Or browse the raw timetables. froginawell.net/reference/japanese-…
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
Weekend fun project: adding a feature to the restored Nagasaki Foreign Settlement website by Lane R. Earns and Brian Burke-Gaffney to allow direct browsing of the concession leaseholder lots over time thanks to the detailed leaseholder tables they created […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Uploaded a few more updates to the interactive map of Japanese empire this evening. 1) commercial airlines with animation tools (see info "i" tab for some limitations of this due to limited sources drawn from. Also still a bit buggy - working on it 2) Right click […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
Frog in a Well now hosts a restored Brian Burke-Gaffney and Lane R. Earns website "Nagasaki Foreign Settlement: A History of the Foreign Settlement at Nagasaki, Japan" together with its 1993-1998 journal "Crossroads: A Journal of Nagasaki History and Culture" […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
An interactive map of the Japanese empire: froginawell.net/frog/2026/08/an-int… feedback and corrections welcome.
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
The Points and Lines of Japan's North China occupation, 1942: froginawell.net/frog/2026/08/the-po… New Frog in a Well post, and link to an interactive website to explore a useful Japanese military map from 1942.
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026
@JMarkOckerbloom thanks! Alas I don’t know enough about the copyright history or sales locations of Tokyo Gazette. Useful to learn about this technique for sorting status. Appreciate it.
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026
Created a timeline comprised of events found in various english language publications from pre-1945 Japan. It is not a neutral timeline: it captures the perspectives of sources that served or were censored by the Japanese state, but hopefully interesting to […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026
@JMarkOckerbloom thanks for the entry. Wonderful and important work you do at onlinebooks!
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026
@JMarkOckerbloom I have seen paper copies of later 1930s issues in the past, but don't know much about the full publication history. Up to 1940 sounds possible. Two other English language periodicals, Tokyo Gazette (froginawell.net/tokyo-gazette) and Contemporary Japan ( […]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026
Added a searchable transcription of the 1917-1929 events diary to the Japan Magazine index: froginawell.net/indexes/japan-magaz…
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026
I created a deep linked and searchable table of contents index for issues of the prewar "Japan Magazine" found on Internet Archive, with over 200 issues and several thousand articles. Useful for history students working only with English sources: froginawell.net/indexes/japan-magaz… […]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026
This follows three other similar efforts, all designed to make these sources accessible for student critical analysis: Tokyo Gazette 1937-42 froginawell.net/tokyo-gazette Chinese Literature 1950s-80s froginawell.net/chinese-literature Contemporary Japan 1941-45 […]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026
I've posted a linked up list of tables of contents for the 1944-5 issues of Azad Hind, the Japanese-supported Indian National Army and Provisional Government of India's newspaper, issues of which can be found on Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons: froginawell.net/azad-hind […]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026
@wilko thanks! Hope you give it a shot. Still took a full evening to check over the results
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026
I created a deep linked table of contents (titles searchable) for the over 50 issues of "Tokyo Gazette" (1937-1942) that can be found on @internetarchive - great source for students to critique: froginawell.net/tokyo-gazette Done with major LLM help and OCR, main titles checked over […]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026
Meanwhile, "as a means of taking its mind off strife and statehood" "Manchoukuo Goes Yo Yo" (from Manchuria Daily News March 22, 1933). "Anything to keep the cyclist occupied is regarded as a good sign."
1933 Newspaper article: MANCHOUKUO GOES YO YO
As a means of taking its mind off strife and statehood the
itzons of Manchouko have fall en had fr th Yo Yo crass which
captivated Europe for months and has just struck this part of
he work, Hee we se (he bis nse man, he busman and. ven
the cyclist yoyoing in Dairen and Mukden. Anything fo keep the
eyelist occupied is regarded as a good sign. Yo Yo is hailed here
as the first blossom of Spring.
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026
Nice before and after between this 12 Jan 1933 Trans-Pacific weekly article "Japanese Army Loves Piece" a few weeks before the conquest of Rehe (Jehol) "That there are foreigners who seriously think that Japan is on the war-path is extremely annoying to us." and […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026
Nice that the complete works of Yanagita Kunio are all openly available for download on the National Diet Library: 定本柳田国男集 […]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026
Congratulations to Valerie Cranmer for the acceptance of her PhD dissertation on the infamous 防疫給水部, “Enabling abuse: the Imperial Japanese Army’s epidemic prevention and water purification organisation and its place in global military history” […]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026
For anyone who loves maps, two sources of modern East Asia related maps with amazing collections that I only recently explored: The UN Archives in Geneva archives.ungeneva.org/east-asia-2 国際日本文化研究センタ lapis.nichibun.ac.jp/chizu/index.ht…
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026
Nice historical resource put together by students at Georgetown: Japan in Korea, Korea in Japan storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d06340…
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025
No shortage of Japanese wartime (propaganda) periodicals available in English for students to explore as (challenging) primary sources: Tokyo Gazette 1937-42 archive.org/search?query=subject%3A… Contemporary Japan 1941-5 […]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025
Enjoyed browsing this wonderful online exhibition: Unpinning History: Japanese Posters in the Age of Commercialism, Imperialism, and Modernism scalar.usc.edu/works/unpinning-hist…
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/12/2025
Interesting mixed medium approach to this Asahi feature on opium and Japanese occupied Manchuria: www.asahi.com/special/manchukuo-opi…
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/12/2025
Some of the fun digital projects worked on this year: Chinese Literature Magazine Index froginawell.net/chinese-literature Re-design of Sino-Japanese Studies website: chinajapan.org Chinese Periodical Translation Project baokan.pages.dev Five Korean Colonial Period […]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025
Lot of interesting sources on NDL online collections are embedded in scanned US occupation period files. Example: the 日満支 工業年鑑 for 昭和15 is only available as part of evidence for war crimes trials here: dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/12922208/1/4 while elsewhere only up to 昭和13 ( […]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025
Senior permanent position has opened up in Chinese studies here at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. It is a very nice place. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN980/reader-or…
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025
Lots of updates to this page dedicated to the old“Chinese Literature” journal with its thousands of English translations. Over 200 issues online from 1950s-80s. Added “Search”, “Explore” and an author table with pinyin/hanzi versions of a few dozen of the over a […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025
Afternoon walk by Deil’s Caldron near Comrie. #scotland
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025
With some LLM and OCR help, I've extracted the tables of contents for over 200 issues of the old PRC journal "Chinese Literature" and put together a website to search and explore them (still proof-reading and formatting it): froginawell.net/chinese-literature #china #literature
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025
Afternoon walk along Cramond Beach #scotland
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025
I added a section to our Frog in a Well Primary Source guide to Korean History with some links to open access copies of volumes with Japanese statistics from colonial Korea - froginawell.net/frog/sources/primar… […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025
To think I lived my life without having deployed the fantastic excuse of “illness and misadventure” www.theguardian.com/australia-news/…
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025
Four issues of China Pictorial found on eBay just arrived with 34 more issues on their way (misc issues ‘57-60,’65-69,’76-80). Almost all are issues not already in this digital collection but can’t promise when I’ll find time to scan and post to archive.org […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025
A UFO 🛸 spotting in Trondheim, Norway 1934. Among the treasures of A Shoebox of Norwegian Letters: huginn.net/shoebox/new/index.html?l… #norway
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025
Fixed a few bugs on this 2010 website I made for my mother's translations of over 200 Norwegian letters from 1911-1956 (including between US and Norway) huginn.net/shoebox/letters Some really wonderful content to browse there. #norway
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025
History PhD students at Scottish universities may be interested in this upcoming SGSAH Discipline+ Catalyst in person training workshop in St Andrews: Coding Literacy for Historians in the Age of AI - 17-18 Oct, 2025 spatialhistory.net/info/coding.html Limited places; registration by 15 […]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025
Today enjoyed browsing the UBC collection of Japanese maps of the Tokugawa era: open.library.ubc.ca/collections/tok… #japan #maps
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025
2/2 Continued: スタンダード和英辞典 1946 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1126792 和英対照明解新辞典 1946 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1126444 世界新語辞典 1949 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1126445 和英英和時事要語辞典 1953 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/2465788 模範漢和新辞典 1954 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/2439778 現代中国人名辞典 (with nice Wade-Giles lookup too!) 1957 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/3020572
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025
Some (out of copyright?) downloadable Japanese dictionaries of (very) different sorts from postwar at NDL: 最新時事新語辞典 1949 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1126434/... 最新国際問題辞典 1948 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1444664 ポケットスケッチ事典 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1338675 図解新事典 1949 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1169556 […] [Original post on social.coop]
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Konrad M. Lawson @konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025
@tillgrallert Thanks! I found Aliz and Jeffrey (I apparently already was following Aliz here on Mastodon). Couldnt' find Hilde. Do you mean the wonderful Hilde De Weerdt at KU Leuven?
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