Digitisation

  • Dazai’s School Notebooks

    Dazai Osamu attended Hirosaki High School from 1927 until 1930, and many of his school notebooks from this period, complete with the inky doodles of a bored schoolboy, are currently being held in various University and Museum archives. Three of them have made their way online and have been preserved by Yobanashi Café over on

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  • Japanese in Three Weeks by S. Sheba

    A digitisation of the 1935, revised 30th edition of Japanese in Three Weeks, available to download via the Internet Archive. A fantastic resource for translators who work with older material, it contains a wealth of contemporary phrases and how they were translated between English and Japanese. Illustrations throughout, including sentence diagramming and red text for

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