Translations of Western linguistics of the Meiji-, Shôuwa- and Taishô-period into the Japanese language.

The 'graded intergenerational disruption scale' by Joshua Fishman applied to Japan's indigenous languages.

Laws and regulations, gonvernmental plans and policy, statistics, studies on migration and language policy etc.

A bibliography on Japanese Sociolinguistics. The following categories are provided:

Sociolinguistics in general, language endangerment, communication studies, language and gender, discourse studies, contrastive sociolinguistics studies, politeness studies, historical studies.

Foundations, societies, language materials and personal webpages.

Information on the master study-program Japanese Sociolinguistics at Duisburg-Essen University.