Provides information on Japanese companies, products and services and includes brief overviews giving demographic, business, and tourist information for all Japanese prefectures.

The sites selected for this Web research guide are specific to the needs of business researchers, providing annotated listings of global business information sources. Researchers will find resources such as finding financial information on a foreign company, identifying overseas buyers and suppliers, and finding a market research study or an industry analysis from another country.

本書は、外国企業が日本に進出する際必要な各種プロフェッショナル・サービスを提供する企業のサービス概要を全国主要都市を中心に調査・収録したものです。企業は地域別職業にアルファベット順で並べられています。企業名は和英併記としています。個別企業データの主な内容は、企業名、所在地、サービスの概要、コンタクト先などです。巻末にサービス別企業インデックス、和文ならびに英文それぞれの企業インデックスを付けました。

A revitalized version of the popular classic, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition targets new and dynamic movements in the distribution, acquisition, and development of print and online media-compiling articles from more than 450 information specialists on topics including program planning in the digital era, recruitment, information management, advances in digital technology and encoding, intellectual property, and hardware, software, database selection and design, competitive intelligence, electronic records preservation, decision support systems, ethical issues in information, online library instruction, telecommuting, and digital library projects.