UW Libraries now provides access to Japan’s National Diet Library (NDL) Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries, significantly expanding access to Japanese research materials that have been difficult to consult from outside Japan. The National Diet Library has digitized a vast range of materials from its collections. While many are freely available online, copyright restrictions

What if statistics could solve a literary mystery centuries in the making? That’s exactly what Department of Asian Languages and Literature Professor Paul Atkins, along with mathematics Ph.D. students Herman Chau and Michael Zeng, set out to do. Using data analysis and machine learning, the three discussed how they used statistical analysis of hiragana usage