East Asian Legal Databases

Available online at the University of Washington

• East Asian (CJK) Databases
  • Asian Language Online Catalog
    Search Japan's National Diet Library's Asian Resources Unicode Catalog
  • Worldcat Local: Advanced Search
    Search the Gallagher Law Library and World Wide Libraries for Chinese, Japanese and Korean materials
• Chinese Databases
  • Full Text Articles in Chinese language Journals and Newspapers (PDF)
    • China Academic Journals (CAJ) (UW Restricted; Works Better with Internet Explorer)
      Includes over 7200 journals. Coverage begins in 1915.
    • China Core Newspaper Database (CCND) (UW Restricted)
      Includes over 1000 newspapers.  Coverage begins in 2000.
  • Chinese Local Government Information
  • Digitized Chinese Local Gazetteers and Yearbooks
    Full-text Availability from Government Websites
    (U.C. Berkeley, Susan Xue)
  • Cases
    • Chinalawinfo / Lawinfochina (See below under Laws)
      
    • China Guiding Cases Project (Stanford Law School)
  • Laws
  • Chinalawinfo Database (UW Restricted; One User At a Time)    
    Need Help Logging In to Chinalawinfo and Lawinfochina?
    Please Log off when finished. Works Better With Internet Explorer
    • LawInfoChina.com (UW restricted) (English)
    • Chinalawinfo.com (UW restricted) (Chinese)
  • Chinese Legislative Information Network System
    中国政府法政信息网
    • English
    • Chinese
  • 中华人民共和国中央人民政府法律法规
    (Chinese Central Government Laws and Regulations page)
  • China Laws for Foreign Business (UW restricted)
    (part of the Wolters Kluwer Law and Business IntelliConnect service) INSTRUCTIONS: Click the link above to connect. Then, in the search box type "China Laws for foreign business," and click "Go". Finally, click on the first item in the search result: "Practice Tool: China Laws for Foreign Business Complete".
  • China law and Practice (English & Chinese)
  • Isinolaw.com Isinolaw Service Ended May 27, 2009 Due to Lack of funds and low usage, the library's subscription to Isinolaw was not renewed. See Chinalawinfo / Lawinfochina for similar content.
  • Library Catalogs
    • National Library of China 欢迎使用国家图书馆
• Japanese Databases
  (See also Summary of Major Digital Resources)
  • Comprehensive Legal Database
    • Westlaw Japan (UW Restricted; One User At a Time)
      Please Log off when finished.
      Westlaw Japan is in Japanese only
  • Cases
  • Hanrei kensaku shisutemu (Decisions Search System)
    判例検索システム
  • Laws
    • Hōrei dēta teikyō shisutemu (Laws and Regulations System)
      法令データ提供システム
    • Japanese Law Translation This search interface for the Japanese governments online law translation project provides three search options: Law Search, Dictionary Search, and Keyword in Context Search. (Japanese Version)
• Full Text Articles and Books in Japanese
  Porta:  National Diet Library Digital Archive Portal
  Porta allows comprehensive searching of many digital archives in Japan.  Many of these resources provide full-text of articles and books.
  • Newspapers
    • 日経テレコン 21 (Nikkei terekon21) (UW restricted)
    • Nikkei.com (UW restricted)
  • Magazines CiNii
    What is CiNii?
    • Law Title List (CiNii and other)
    • Search CiNii (Japanese)
    • Search CiNii (English)
• Online indexes to Japanese Periodicals
  • Zasshi kiji sakuin shūsei database (UW restricted)
  • 雑誌記事索引 [Zasshhi kiji sakuin]
    Free National Diet Library Periodical Index on the NDL website Click "Search for Japanese Periodicals Index
    • English Interface
    • Japanese Interface
  • RSS Feeds for Current Law-Related Article National Diet Library (NDL)    
  • Japan Knowledge (UW Restricted; Click "ログイン / Enter")
    This online mostly Japanese-language portal Provides access to various Japanese language resources, including:
    • 日本大百科全書 [Nihon dai hyakka zensho]
    • 現代用語の基礎知識 [Gendai yōgo no kihon chishiki]
    • 日本人名大辞典 [Nihon jinmei daijiten]
    • 辞書（和英、英和、日本語）[Japanese-English, English Japanese and Japanese Dictionaries]
    • JK Who's Who
    • English-Language Encyclopedia of Japan
• Library Catalogs
• NII Webcat Plus
National Diet Library (New Version)
Search for Books OR for Magazine articles in the huge NDL database
• Korean  Databases
  • Law&b (UW restricted)
    Database Information
    • 138,200 precedents
    • 4,900 current ordinances, treaties, and statutes
    • Includes detailed commentaries and other information about Korean law
  • Full Text Articles in Korean
    • KISS (UW restricted)
      Koreastudies Information Service System
    • DBPIA (UW restricted)
    • Naver News Library (Newspaper Archive)      
  • Laws in English
    • Statutes of the Republic of Korea (English)
      (Login and password required.  Please request at Reference Dept. or East Asian Law Dept., OR register on the website for your own free account)
    • Korea Law in English (Free website with laws in PDF)
      Ministry of Government Legislation (MOLEG)
    • GLIN (Global Legal Information Network: South Korea) (English Summary; Full-text in Korean)
      (Free resource has many South Korean laws)
  • Cases in English
    • Supreme Court Decisions (Requires Internet Explorer)
  • Library Catalog
    • Korea National Central Library (Korean)
      Includes records for most legal publications, including very new titles
• Taiwan Databases
  • Overviews
    • Taiwan Law Resources
    • Taiwan Law (Wikipedia)
  • Laws
    • Laws and Regulations Database of the Republic of China (English)
    • 全國法規資料庫 (Chinese)
    • 政府公報資訊惘 = Taiwan Government Gazettes Online (Chinese)
  • Cases
    • 最高法院 Supreme Court of the Republic of China
      • English
      • Chinese
    • Constitutional Court
      • Interpretations 司法院內部與外部景觀圖片動畫 (English)
    • 臺灣屏東地方法院 Taiwan Pingtung District Court (English)   
  • 臺灣法實證研究資料庫
    (Taiwan Database for Empirical Legal Studies [TaDELS]) (Chinese)
    Links to related databases:
    • Law and Social Change Survey Database
    • Legal Archive Database
    • Legal Image Database
    • Taiwan Colonial Statistics Database (TCSD)
      (The library has a print introduction to this database)
  • 著作權筆記 (CopyrightNote.org)
    Detailed commentary on copyright law in Taiwan by IP expert Chung-Hsin Chang (章忠信)
  • Library Catalog
    • National Central Library
  • Theses and Dissertations
    National Taiwan Normal University Electronic Theses and Dissertations