• Chinese Databases

  • Full Text Articles in Chinese

    • China Academic Journals (CAJ)
      (UW Restricted) Full-text articles in Chinese

  • Laws

    • 中华人民共和国中央人民政府法律法规
      (Chinese Central Government Laws and Regulations page)

  • Laws and Cases

    • Isinolaw.com (UW restricted) (English & Chinese)

    • ChinalawInfo.com (UW restricted) (in Chinese)

    • LawInfoChina.com (UW restricted) (in English)

    • China law and Practice (English & Chinese)

• Japanese Databases

  • Cases

    • Hanrei kensaku shisutemu (Decisions Search System)
      判例検索システム

    • Legalbase (Index to Japanese court decisions)
      リーガルベース
      (Login and password required.  Please request at Reference Dept. or East Asian Law Dept.)

      • CD ROM version Also Available in EALD

      • How to Use Legalbase CD ROM

  • Laws

    • Hōrei dēta teikyō shisutemu (Laws and Regulations System)
      法令データ提供システム

    • Translations of Japanese Laws and Regulations
      English translations provided by the Japanese government

  • Full Text Articles in Japanese

    • CiNii
      What is CiNii?

      • Law Title List (CiNii and other)

      • Search CiNii (Japanese)

      • Search CiNii (English)

  • Online index to Japanese Periodicals

    • Magazineplus (UW restricted)

  • Encyclopedia

    • Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan (UW restricted)

  • Library Catalog Union Database

    • NII Webcat Plus (Japanese)

• Korean  Databases

  • Law&b (UW restricted)

    This is a free trial for University of Washington access only.

    The free trial ends Dec. 31, 2008

    • 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)

  • Laws

    • Statutes of the Republic of Korea (English)
      (Login and password required.  Please request at Reference Dept. or East Asian Law Dept.)

    • GLIN (Global Legal Information Network: South Korea) (English Summary; Full-text in Korean)
      (Free resource has many South Korean laws)

  • Library Catalog Union Database

    • RISS (UW restricted) (Korean)

• Taiwan Databases

  • Laws

    • Laws and Regulations Database of the Republic of China (English)

    • 全國法規資料庫 (Chinese)

For More Detailed Information...
on additional databases and resources,
see the  China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan legal research guides.