These annotated bibliographies of Japanese and Korean core collections are designed for use by medium-sized public libraries in either creating or expanding Japanese and/or Korean language collections. Author and title are given in the Japanese and Korean character script as well as in the English transliteration. The character script for publisher is given in addition to the English transliteration in the Japanese bibliography, but in place of the transliteration in the Korean bibliography. The lists are highly selective; the majority of titles have been published since 1974. The nonfiction titles tend to have a very practical focus while novels listed were selected due to their popularity at the Asian Community Library of the Oakland Public Library. Prices given reflect cost at the time of publication and in the currency of the place of publication. Included is a listing of possible vendor sources for the publishers listed in the annotations. (Author/CWM)