This database is a complete reimplementation of The Royalty-free Photo Gallery for Japanese language Instruction. This version is different from the original version in the following ways: (1) Purdue collection (Kazumi Hatasa) and Washington &Lee University collection (Ken'ichi Ujie) have been merged into one database, (2) topical keywords have been generated for each picture in English and in Japanese , and (3) Japanese words in each photograph haven been entered in the database. A search engine makes it possible to bring up sub-sets of pictures. Audio files and video files will be added to the database in the future.
You can freely use the photographs without any fee as long as they are used for non-profit educational purposes. (You can download them, copy them, clip a part of it, modify them, combine them, shrink them, enlarge them, print them large or small, etc.) When you use them, we ask you to acknowledge the source.
The project director is Kazumi Hatasa (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue University)
The Washington &Lee University Collection was done by Prof. Ken'ichi Ujie (Department of , Washington &Lee University)
This project is supported by Center for Technology-enhanced Language Learning (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue University). A partial funding comes from the Dean of School of Liberal Arts, Purdue University. (Faculty incentive grant)
We can now receive photographs you have and add them to this database. If you are willing to share what you have with others, please click the following line.
A series of English and Japanese topical keywords have been generated for each photograph. In addition, you can conduct a search based on authentic Japanese text which appears in phtographs.
This page is created by Kazumi Hatasa and Vincent Yau .
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Last update: 2/6/01