The Historical Dictionary of Toyko is available as an ebook. Connect NY has the Historical Dictionary of Osaka and Kyoto which you can order for free and it arrives within 3-5 days.
There is a book, The Higher Education of the HI Persons in Japan that may be checked out.
Use keyword and subject searches to find books about cities in Japan. You may need to use keywords like Japan and Social Life and Customs to retrieve books about Japan and its cities. Travel guides are available and some are in the Study Abroad Office which you can check out.
We have materials in the Deaf Studies Archive (RIT Archives) on Satoshi Fukushima. He is a professor who works at the Research Center of Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo.
The RIT Archives, 3660 in the library building is open Monday-Friday from 9 am-12 pm and 1 pm-5pm. It is best to make appointments with the archivists. You can email the archivists Becky Simmons raswml@rit.edu and/or Jody Sidlauskas via jaswml@rit.edu for more information.You can also use the contact page which has their phone numbers.
You can find travel guides on the web. Use keywords like Tokyo and travel guide. You will find sites like Fodor's Travel, Lonely Planet and related sites.
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