Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan

The Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan (DCJ), now a part of the Fung Library, offers important resources on contemporary Japan that complement the Japan-related holdings of other libraries on campus. The library, supported by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, is located in Fung Library on the lower concourse level of CGIS Knafel Building located at 1737 Cambridge Street. The Fung Library also includes area studies collections from the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

As part of Harvard University’s efforts to consolidate library collections and services, DCJ’s monograph collection has been transferred to Harvard-Yenching Library effective July 2013. To complement the Japan-related holdings of other Harvard libraries, DCJ is now focused more on its journal collection, which is particularly strong in newly published titles on contemporary Japanese studies in social sciences, such as politics, economics, labor, media, and popular culture.

This focus includes enhancing access to rapidly expanding digital resources and materials. As the home library of the Reischauer Institute’s web archiving project on Constitutional Revision in Japan and Japan’s 2011 Disasters Digital Archive Project the DCJ also collects ephemera publications on these subjects as well. In addition, DCJ has extensive newspaper clipping files, which cover over 130 categories relating to contemporary Japan as well as the general Asia-Pacific context from the mid 1980s through the early 2000s.

Library Location:
Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan
Fung Library
Knafel Building, Concourse Level
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Library Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday: 1:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Closed Saturday

Library Staff:
Kazuko Sakaguchi, Librarian
(617) 495-8386