How to handle Japanese rare books

Before introducing rare books from our library, let’s learn how to handle Japanese rare books.

Watch the video of Prof. Sasaki explaining the proper way to handle old books and the reasons behind it.

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Subtitles and PDFs

English and Japanese subtitles are provided for all videos. To enable the subtitles, please hover over the speech bubble icon in the video player, and choose “English” or “Japanese”. You can also select “Subtitles off” here to disable it.

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Also you can find a PDF version of all the steps including scripts in the DOWNLOADS section of the first step of the each week.