# Shortlist of “key” resource checks
1. Columbia
2. Harvard
3. Michigan
4. Berkeley
5. UChicago
6. Stanford
7. Yale
8. Hawaii
9. Princeton
10. UCLA
11. Washington
12. Cornell
13. Wisconsin
14. Illinois
15. Penn
1. https://guides.library.upenn.edu/undergradjapan (undergrad guide)
2. https://guides.library.upenn.edu/japanesedatabases (guide for searching JP databases)
16. Ohio State
1. https://guides.osu.edu/japanese
17. Minnesota
1. https://libguides.umn.edu/japan (regular guide)
2. https://libguides.umn.edu/japan_advanced (advanced guide)
18. Indiana
1. https://guides.libraries.indiana.edu/c.php?g=987935&p=8066567 (literature)
2. https://guides.libraries.indiana.edu/c.php?g=987935&p=10680600 (JP media + popular culture)
3. https://guides.libraries.indiana.edu/c.php?g=987935&p=10686399 (anime + manga)
19. NYU
1. https://guides.nyu.edu/eastasia/japanese
20. USC
1. https://libguides.usc.edu/c.php?g=234962&p=6051566
21. Pitt
1. https://pitt.libguides.com/sb.php?subject_id=6032
22. Oregon
1. https://researchguides.uoregon.edu/c.php?g=309362&p=2065312
23. UT Austin
1. https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/japan_studies
# Highlights for alma maters with >10 specialists in 2012
Academic libraries in North America with JP collections:
- ==Berkeley:== C. V. Starr East Asian Library
- ==UChicago:== Center for East Asian Studies
- ==Columbia:== C. V. Starr East Asian Library
- ==Cornell:== Asia Collections
- Duke: East Asian Collection
- ==Harvard:== Harvard-Yenching Library
- ==Hawaii:== Asia Collection
- ==Illinois:== Asian Library
- Kansas: East Asian Library
- ==Michigan:== Asia Library
- ==Penn:== East Asia Collection
- UMD: East Asian Collection
- ==Princeton:== East Asian Library
- ==Stanford:== East Asia Library
- ==UCLA:== Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library
- ==USC:== East Asian Library
- ==Washington:== East Asian Library
- ==Yale:== East Asia Library
Broader, trimmed list of additional East Asian libraries:
- Alberta
- Arizona
- SUNY Binghamton
- BYU
- Brown
- Colorado
- UC Davis
- Georgetown
- ==Indiana==
- Iowa
- UC Irvine
- Library of Congress
- ==Minnesota==
- ==NYU==
- UNC
- Oberlin
- ==Ohio State==
- ==Oregon==
- Penn State
- ==Pitt==
- Ricci Institute
- Rutgers
- UC San Diego
- UC Santa Barbara
- ==UT Austin==
- Toronto
- UBC
- UMass
- Virginia
- WUSTL
- ==Wisconsin==
# Highlights for >10 grad students in 2012
Academic libraries in North America with JP collections:
- ==Berkeley:== C. V. Starr East Asian Library
- ==UChicago:== Center for East Asian Studies
- ==Columbia:== C. V. Starr East Asian Library
- ==Cornell:== Asia Collections
- Duke: East Asian Collection
- ==Harvard:== Harvard-Yenching Library
- ==Hawaii:== Asia Collection
- Illinois: Asian Library
- Kansas: East Asian Library
- ==Michigan:== Asia Library
- ==Penn:== East Asia Collection
- UMD: East Asian Collection
- ==Princeton:== East Asian Library
- ==Stanford:== East Asia Library
- UCLA: Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library
- ==USC:== East Asian Library
- ==Washington:== East Asian Library
- ==Yale:== East Asia Library
Broader, trimmed list of additional East Asian libraries:
- Alberta
- Arizona
- SUNY Binghamton
- BYU
- Brown
- Colorado
- UC Davis
- Georgetown
- Indiana
- Iowa
- UC Irvine
- Library of Congress
- Minnesota
- NYU
- UNC
- Oberlin
- ==Ohio State==
- Oregon
- Penn State
- ==Pitt==
- Ricci Institute
- Rutgers
- UC San Diego
- ==UC Santa Barbara==
- UT Austin
- Toronto
- UBC
- UMass
- Virginia
- WUSTL
- Wisconsin