A reading seminar on Japanese music-related materials. It consists of two major parts focusing respectively on historical and contemporary writings, intended to cover various types and forms of written texts such as official documents, newspapers, magazines, biographies, scholarly articles, etc. Its emphasis will be on the historical part which deals with publications in the colonial period and related to Taiwanese, Japanese and other musics. This seminar also includes an introduction to how to find and utilize Japanese materials. It takes full advantage of abundant resources available offline and online at NTU including the main library and the Graduate Institute of Musicology, but it will also pay a visit to archives in and around Taipei if necessary and possible.