Kotobank

Kotobank (Japanese: コトバンク) is a Japanese Internet encyclopedia operated mainly by the Asahi Shimbun Company. It was opened on April 23, 2009.[1]

Kotobank
Type of site
Internet encyclopedia
Available inJapanese
Ownerthe Asahi Shimbun Company
URLhttps://kotobank.jp

Overview

Kotobank provides a comprehensive explanation of terms found in a lot of various dictionaries and encyclopedias such as Buritanika Kokusai Daihyakka-jiten (Japanese: ブリタニカ国際大百科事典[N 1]) ,[2] Daijisen, Encyclopedia Nipponica, Heibonsha World Encyclopedia and so on. The biggest feature of Kotobank is that you can search across terms at once from these many encyclopedias and dictionaries. Kotobank collects only articles written by experts (Professional) , unlike encyclopedia that anyone can write like Wikipedia. Therefore, it is competing with Wikipedia on reliability.[3]

Note
  1. This is a Japanese version of Encyclopædia Britannica

References
  1. "用語解説サイト「kotobank」（コトバンク）、開設" (in Japanese).
  2. "Buritanika Kokusai Daihyakka-jiten | Japanese encyclopaedia". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  3. "信頼性でWikipedia対抗 朝日新聞、講談社、小学館など無料辞書サイト". ITmedia NEWS (in Japanese). Retrieved December 11, 2020.
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