Japanese Studies CourseWork Guide: Find Dissertations

176, 296 digitized Doctoral Dissertations which were received by the NDL and publication years from 1970 to up to the 2010s. Out of these, 15,690, available online, 116,804, available only at the NDL and partner libraries, and 42,349 available only at the NDL.

Users can search from one place for approximately 600,000 dissertations in Japan.
If the full text of the paper has been digitally archived and made available, links are provided for viewing the text.
CiNii Dissertations is a database service that lets you search for information on dissertations written for doctoral degrees in Japan conferred by Japanese Universities and the National Institute for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education.