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General
Sites
Academic
Society Home Village
http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/
A webpage created and maintained by academic societies or institutions
related to Japanese Studies.
Annual
Bibliography of Oriental Studies
http://www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/db/CHINA3
The database for T¯oyogaku Bunken Ruimoku (Bibliography of
Asian Studies) by the Documentation and Information Center for Chinese
Studies, Institute for Research in Humanities, Ky¯oto University.
This is a good bibliography for books and periodical ariticles on
oriental studies published in Japan.
Ask Asia, The Asia Society
http://www.askasia.org/
Established by the Asia Society (est. 1956), the America's premier
Asian cultural and educational institution. The Society's mission
is to foster understanding and communication between Americans
and the peoples of Asia and the Pacific. The AskAsia web site
is an online 'clearinghouse', specifically for elementary, middle
and high-school level materials pertaining to Asian Studies.
Asian Studies Development Program
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/?id=1268
Designed for faculty in primarily undergraduate institutions who seek high quality opportunities for faculty development to expand their intellectual and pedagogical horizons beyond their academic training.
Association
for Asian Studies (AAS)
http://www.aasianst.org/
Mostly about the association, archives, meeting abstracts, publication
catalogs
Asian
Studies, Australian National University
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
This site is useful for all of Asia, not only the large countries
of China, India, Korea and Japan, but also small countries such
as the Pacific Islands etc. Particularly useful for Buddhism.
Bibliography
of Asian Studies Online
http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/b/bas/
Center
for Global Communications (GLOCOM), International University
of Japan
http://www.glocom.ac.jp/top/index.e.html
This server aims to provide access to a wide range of information
from and about Japan with the goal of creating deeper understanding
about Japanese society, politics, industry, and, most important,
the Japanese people. GLOCOM is a research center based in Tokyo,
Japan. The center focuses on the global impact of computer-based
communication on a wide range of social, economic, political, cultural
and technical issues.
H-NET
: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
http://www.h-net.org/
H-NET is sponsored by the Michigan State University and the National
Endowment for the Humanities. The goals of H-NET lists are to
enable scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching
interests; to discuss new approaches, methods and tools of analysis;
to share information on electronic databases; and to test new
ideas and share comments on the literature in their fields.The
networks feature dialogues in the discipline.
H-Japan
Discussion Network (Japanese History and Culture)
http://www.h-net.org/~japan/
H-Japan is an international, nonpartisan electronic discussion
group sponsored by H-Net, Humanities-On-Line and the Kansai
Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies (KIAPS) of Osaka University
of Foreign Studies. It provides scholars, graduate students
and professionals a free daily forum to discuss Japanese history,
culture, religion, and society, including contemporary political,
diplomatic, security, and economic issues.
Japan - WWW Virtual Library (Stanford University) Electronic
links and sites on Japan.
Jguide Directory
http://jguide.stanford.edu/
Jguide is a topically arranged directory of online information resources in and about Japan, with focus on resources about Japan in the English language.
Japan
Culture Plaza
http://www.acejapan.or.jp/index.html
The Japan Association for Cultural Exchange (ACE Japan) has organized
these pages to broaden the scope of available information on Japanese
culture and society with the cooperation of The Japan Foundation
and other organizations involved in international exchange. Includes
current information on The Arts, Japanese Studies, Citizen Exchange,
and Cooperative Organizations.
Japan
Information Network
http://jin.jcic.or.jp/
Created by JCIC (Japan Center for Intercultural Communications)
and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan to act as the WWW
Doorway to Japan. The information about the Japanese society,
culture, education, current events, regional information, census
data, statistics, and other aspects of Japan appearing on this
site is gathered and edited by JCIC. The JIN also serves as a
central hub, providing users with links to the best sites for
finding factual information they need about Japan.
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Digital
Maps of Japan
Ashida
Antique Map Collection, Meiji University
http://www.lib.meiji.ac.jp/ashida/display/exhibit-2001/contents.html
This page consistes of approximately 2,500 items of geographical
material, such as maps of Japan, China, Korea, and the world,
and topography in the Edo period, collected by Koreto Ahida (1877-1960),
a pioneer of Japanese topography.
Asian
in World Antique Map, Osaka University
http://www.library.osaka-u.ac.jp/tenji/maps/maps.htm
Consists of approximately 100 images of maps published from the
17th century through the 19th century, covering North East Asia,
including Japan, China, Korea and Siberia. This image archive
is invaluable for obraining the Western geographical views toward
Asia and is useful for tracing historical changes.
Complete
Survey of the Japanese Coast, National Diet Library
http://www.ndl.go.jp/exhibit/50/html/wb39-6/mokuji.html
This is the first geographical survey maps of Japan, mad by Tadataka
In¯o (1745-1818). The maps are known as "In¯o Maps"
in general. They consist of three hand-produced sets in three
scales.
Edo
Streets Digital Exhibition, University of Tokyo
http://www.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/tenjikai/tenjikai96/index.html
Portable maps made by woodblock printing, which indicated the
locations of residential mansions for daimy¯o and
warrior classes, enjoied their heyday during the Edo period. They
were used as practical tools in the everyday lives of people in
old Edo. This type of printed maps, called kiriezu, or patch-work
maps, are often misleading due to deformation or deletion of detail
and are therefore not suitable to serve as a source for accurate
geographical data.
Old
Maps of Nagasaki, International Research Center for Japanese
Studies
http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/graphicversion/dbase/nagasakie.htm
It includes 221 color photographic images whose originals are
in the collection of the Nagasaki Municipal Museum.
Old
Northern Maps Cyber Exhibition, Hokkaid¯o University
http://ambitious.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/hoppodb/detail/
This image archive consists of a collection housed at the Institute
of Northern Territory Studies, which was originaly prepared as
part of the 125th commemorative annuversary for Hokkaid¯o
University. The archive traces the historical process of how
Ezochi has been transformed into the current Hokkaid¯o.
Premodern
Antique Map and Drawing Map Collection, University of Tokushima
Library
http://www.lib.tokushima-u.ac.jp/~archive/index.html
It features 200 items related to old maps in their premodern rare
book collection. The collection includes not only maps of Tokushima
but also of Edo, Ky¯oto, various provinces, and the world,
as well as pictorial maps of clans, provinces, countries, villages,
and rivers.
Walking
in Edo-Toky¯o with Antique Map, APP Company
http://www.app-beya.com/
A CD-ROM production by Keishi Nakagawa, a contemporary graphic
designer and illustrator, aiming to iew the world of Edo through
the Owariya Edo Street Maps, is now available on the market. The
uniqueness of this CD-ROM is that one can compare places on the
old Edo map and the current Toky¯o map by combining old maps
an current scientific maps on a computer screen.
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Japanese Search Engines
Domoz
http://dmoz.org
This search engine is the large, comprehensive, human-edited directory
of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast community
of volunteer editors.
Google
http://www.google.co.jp/
MSN
Japan
http://www.msn.co.jp/home.htm
Yahoo! Japan
http://www.yahoo.co.jp
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Institutional Sites
Bookstores
Bunsei shoin
http://www.bunsei.co.jp/
Han-Shan Tang
http://www.hanshan.com/
Japan Book Publishers Association
http://www.books.or.jp/
This site contains 530,000 titles found in the 1997 Nihon shoseki
somokuroku. Searching is free, but you cannot order books through
this.
Japan Publications Trading
Company
(e-mail only: jpt@po.iijnet.or.jp)
Kinokuniya
http://www.kinokuniya.co.jp/
This site allows you to search their database of 1,200,000 Japanese
titles and 1,800,000 foreign titles and place an order. Fee based
service.
Maruzen
http://www.maruzen.co.jp/
Includes Japanese and foreign books. You need a Japanese operating
system and a password to search. For the present, orders are accepted
only from people in Japan.
Nichigai Associates' Bookplus
http://web.nichigai.co.jp/
The database includes 1,600,000 titles from the beginning of Showa.
Searching by keyword as well as author and title. Subscription
based service; annual fee = Yen 6960. Easy to use. Nichigai also
has other databases available for subscription (both individual
and corporate), including the Zasshi kiji sakuin and a journal
index to popular journals. Individual rates are reasonable.
Tokyo Kosho
Kumiai
http://kosho.ne.jp/
A guide to Tokyo's used bookstores.
TRC Server
http://www.trc.co.jp/index.asp
Includes all books published from 1995 on. Can be searched by
author, title, publisher, subject or ISBN. Needs a Japanese operating
system or Japanese extension. You can order books online.
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Consulates
and Embassies
Embassies
and Consulates of Japan in the U. S.
http://www.us.embjapan.go.jp/english/html/index.htmlForeign_Embassies_and_Consulates_in_the_United_States/Japan/
Foundations
Japan
Foundation
http://www.jpf.go.jp/
Institutes
in Japan
Asiatic Society
of Japan
http://www.asjapan.org/
Institute
of Oriental Culture (T¯oy¯o Bunka Kenky¯ujo),
University of T¯oky¯o
http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/front.shtml
Institute of Social Science,
T¯oky¯o University
http://www.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Includes information on the Institute of Social Science at the
University of T¯oky¯o as well as a link to their newsletter.
Japan International Cooperation
Agency (JICA)
http://www.jica.go.jp/li/j/
Japan Science and
Technology Corporation
http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/
Jinbun kagaku kenky¯ujo,
Ky¯oto University
http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
National Institute
of Informatics
http://www.nii.ac.jp/index.html
Naional Institute
of Informatics-Webcat
http://webcat.nii.ac.jp/webcat_eng.html
Nichibunken: The International
Research Center for Japanese Studies, Ky¯oto, Japan
http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/
Inter-University
Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, Japan
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/IUC/
Intensive Training in Advanced Spoken and Written Japanese
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Japan
Studies Centers in the United States and Europe
Asia/Pacific Research Center,Stanford
University
http://aparc.stanford.edu/
Asian Pacific Studies
Institute, Duke University
http://web.duke.edu/apsi/
Asian Studies ,University
of Texas at Austin
http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/index.html
Center for
Asian and Pacific Studies ,University of Iowa
http://international.uiowa.edu/
Center for Asian
and Pacific Studies ,University of Oregon
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Ecaps/
Center for East Asian Studies ,University Of Kansas
http://www.ku.edu/~ceas/
Center for
Japanese Studies, UCLA
http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/
Cornell East
Asia Program, Cornell University
http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/eastasia/
Digital
Asia Library, University of Wisconsin
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/PAIR/
East Asia Center ,University
of Virginia
http://www.virginia.edu/%7Eeastasia/
East
Asian Collection, Duke University
http://library.duke.edu/research/subject/guides/eas/index.html
East Asian Studies
Center,
Indiana University
http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/
European Institute of Japanese
Studies (EIJS)
http://www.hhs.se/eijs/
Graduate
School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
University of California at San Diego
http://irps.ucsd.edu/
Institute of Oriental
Culture, University of T¯oky¯o
http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Focuses largely on China, Korea, South and Southeast Asia. Also
includes materials on Japan.
Japan Policy Research Institute,
Chalmers Johnson's Institute
http://www.jpri.org/
North Carolina Japan
Center, North Carolina State University
http://www.ncsu.edu/ncjapancenter/
Online
Resources for Japanese Studies, University of Massachusetts'Amherst
http://guides.library.umass.edu/jpnst
Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Erijs/
School of Asian &
Pacific Studies ,University of Hawaii
http://www.hawaii.edu/shaps/
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Libraries
Academic Libraries
http://www.jla.or.jp/link/univ.html#13
Links to Web sites of academic libraries organized by the Japan
Library Association.
Center for Research Libraries,
University of Chicago
http://www.crl.edu/
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium
of colleges, universities
and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources
to users everywhere.
CRL is governed by the major research libraries of North America
and is funded by fees,
grants and contributions.
COPAC
http://copac.ac.uk/copac/
COPAC is the online public access catalogue(OPAC) for some of
the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland
(Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds and Oxford)
Councial on East Asian
Libraries (CEAL)
http://purl.oclc.org/net/ceal
C.V.
Library, Colubmia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/eastasian/
e-Asia , University
of Oregon
http://e-asia.uoregon.edu/ebooks.htm
This page is arranged by subject area for China, Japan, North
and South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. It has links to
the online catalogs for all the East Asian collections and to
the available web pages for East Asian collections.
East Asian Libraries
Cooperative WWW, Ohio-State University
http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/
Links to libraries which have received funding from the Japan
United States Friendship Commission and the Department of Education
to improve electronic access to materials in Chinese, Japanese
and Korean. Many of these sites have mounted scanned tables
of contents of Japanese journals.
It is also the site for the National Coordinating Committee's
electronic projects including
recon and a union catalog for Japananese serials.
International
House of Japan's Library
http://www.i-house.or.jp/en/library/top.htm
Jacross
http://www.jcross.com/
You may search OPACs of multiple libraries in Japan at once.
The Japan Documentation
Center (JDC) at Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/asian/jdc.html
Japanese
Libraries
http://ss.cc.affrc.go.jp/ric/opac/opaclist.html
Links to Japanese online catalogs.
Japan
Information Center, University of Pittburgh
http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/eal/services-jic.htm
Japan
Online Resources, Harvard-Yenching Library
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/harvard-yenching/collections/japanese.cfm
Library of
Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
Includes links to their legislative database, collections/online
catalog and reading rooms, including the Asian
Reading Room and the Japan
Documentation Center
Librarary of Congress Catalog
Online
http://catalog.loc.gov/
Lliterary Database Compedium,
Jissen Women's University Library
http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvard-yenching/japandatabase.html
Links to free searchable databases
National Archives of Japan
http://www.archives.go.jp/english/index.html
North AMerican
Coordinating Committee for Japanese Library Resources (NCC)
http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ncc/index.html
Public Libraries
http://www.jla.or.jp/pub-dir-e.html
Links to Web sites of public libraries organized by the Japan
Library Association.
Sank¯o Bunka
Kenky¯ujo Fuzoku Sank¯o Toshokan
http://www.f2.dion.ne.jp/~sanko/
This library succeeded to the collection of the ¯Ohashi
Toshokan, which was established in 1902 and had a good collection
of Japanese literature and children's books from the Meiji era
to the end of World War II. OPAC for books on education, literature
and periodicals is available.
Selected
List of Spcial Libraries in Japan Open to the Public
http://www6.ocn.ne.jp/~jslakant/jsl/jslframe.htm
http://www6.ocn.ne.jp/~jslakant/opac/index.htm
Zenkoku
Kanseki Database
http://www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kanseki/
A database of a union catalog for Chinese classic literature
in Japanese academin libraries.
Wason Collection,
Cornell University
http://wason.library.cornell.edu/
WWW
Serves in Japan Academic LIbraries
http://www.libra.titech.ac.jp/libraries_Japan.html
Links to Web sites of academic libraries organized by the Tokyo
Institute of Technology Libtrary.
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Selected
Libraries and Institutions in Japan
Agriculture
R¯uraldenshi Toshokan
ルーラル電子図書館
http://lib.ruralnet.or.jp/index.html
N¯obunky¯o Agricultural Library
N¯orin Suisansh¯o
Toshokan
農林水産省図書館
http://www.maff.go.jp/e/index.html
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Library
Art
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Economics
and Industries
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Energy
Kokudo
K¯otsush¯o Toshokan
国土交通省図書館
http://www.mlit.go.jp/library/main.htm
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Library
Nihon
Enerug¯i Keizai Kenky¯ujo S¯og¯o Kenky¯u
T¯okatsu Honbu Shiry¯oshitsu
日本エネルギー経済研究所総合研究統括本部資料室
http://eneken.ieej.or.jp/library/index.html
The Institute of Energy Economics Library
Nihon Kenchiku Gakkai
Toshokan
日本建築学会図書館
http://www.aij.or.jp/jpn/tosho/
Architectural Institute of Japan Library
- General
H¯osei
Daigaku Inob¯eshon manejimento kenky¯u
Sent¯a
法政大学イノベーション・マネジメント研究センター
http://www.hosei.ac.jp/fujimi/riim/index.html
Center of Business and Industrial Research (CBIR), H¯osei
Univ.
Keizai Dantai
Reng¯okai Refarensu Raiburar¯i
経済団体連合会レファレンスライブラリー
http://www.keidanren.or.jp/indexj.html
Library, Japan Federation of Economic Organizations/KEIDANREN
Library
Keizai Sangy¯osh¯o
Toshokan
経済産業研究所
http://www.rieti.go.jp/jp/index.html
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Library (METI)
K¯osei Torihiki Iinkai
Toshokan
公正取引委員会図書館
http://www.jftc.go.jp/
Fair Trade Commission Library
Nihon
B¯oeki Shink¯o kik¯o Ajia Keizai Kenky¯ujo
日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所
http://www.ide.go.jp/Japanese/
Institute of Developing Economics, Japan External Trade Organization
Nihon B¯oeki
Shink¯o kik¯o JETRO
Bijinesu Raiburar¯I
日本貿易振興機構ジェトロビジネスライブラリー
http://www.jetro.go.jp/library/
JETRO Business Library
T¯oky¯o
Sh¯ok¯o Kaigish¯o Keizai Shiry¯o Sent¯a
東京商工会議所経済資料センター
http://www.tokyo-cci.or.jp/library/index.html
Business and Economic Library, T¯oky¯o Chamber of
Commerce and Industry (TCCI)
- Labor
H¯osei Daigaku
¯Ohara Shakai Mondai Kenky¯ujo
法政大学大原社会問題研究所
http://oohara.mt.tama.hosei.ac.jp/
¯Ohara Institute for Social Research, H¯osei Univ.
K¯osei R¯od¯osh¯o
Toshokan
厚生労働省図書館
http://library.mhlw.go.jp/
Ministry of Labor Library
Nihon R¯od¯o Kenky¯u
Kik¯o
日本労働研究機構
http://www.jil.go.jp/lib/
Japan Institute of Labor
- Land and Construction
Kokudo K¯otsush¯o
Toshokan
国土交通省図書館
http://www.mlit.go.jp/library/main.htm
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Library
Nihon Kenchiku Gakkai
Toshokan
日本建築学会図書館
http://www.aij.or.jp/jpn/tosho/
Architectural Institute of Japan Library
- Money and Finance
Sh¯oken K¯oh¯o
Sent¯a Sh¯oken J¯oh¯oshitsu
証券教育広報センター証券情報室
http://www.skkc.jp/room/
Securities Information Office, Japan Institute or Securities
Information & Public Relations
T¯oky¯o
Gink¯o Ky¯okai Gink¯o Toshokan
東京銀行協会銀行図書館
http://www.zenginkyo.or.jp/library/index.html
The Bankers Library, T¯oky¯o Banker’s Association,
Inc.
Zaimush¯o Toshokan
財務省図書館
http://www.mof.go.jp/
Ministry of Finance Library
- Statistics
Hitotsubshi Daigaku Keizai
Kenky¯ujo Fuzoku Shakai Kagaku
T¯okei J¯oh¯o Kenky¯u Sent¯a
一橋大学経済研究所附属社会科学統計情報研究センター
http://rcisss.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/
Research Center for Information and Statistics of Social Science,
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi Univ.
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Education
Kokuritsu
Kyoiku Seisaku Kenky¯ujo Ky¯oiku Kenky¯u, J¯oh¯o
Sent¯a Ky¯oiku Toshokan
http://www.nier.go.jp/library/index.html
Library of Education, Center or Educational Resource, National
Institute for
Educational Policy Research (NIER)
Kokuritsu
Tokushu Ky¯oiku S¯og¯o Kenky¯ujo
http://www.nise.go.jp/
National Institute of Special Education
Monbu Kagakush¯o Toshokan
http://www.mext.go.jp/
Ministry of Education, Sports, Science and Technology Library
Kokuritsu
Ky¯oiku Seisaku Kenky¯ujo
http://www.nier.go.jp/
National Institute for Educational Policy Research
General
¯Oya Soichi
Bunko
大宅壮一文庫
http://www.oya-bunko.or.jp/
¯Oya Soichi Library
Kokuritsu Kokkai
Toshokan
国立国会図書館
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/index.html
The National Diet Library
T¯oky¯o
Daigaku H¯ogakubu Fuzoku Kindai Nihon H¯osei Shiry¯o
Sent¯a Meiji
東京大学大学院法学政治学研究科附属近代日本法政史料センター
http://www.j.u-tokyo.ac.jp/lib/meiji/
The Center of Modern Japanese Legal and Political Documents,
Faculty of Law, Univ. of T¯oky¯o
Toritsu Ch¯uo
Toshokan
都立中央図書館
http://www.library.metro.tokyo.jp/12/index.html
The T¯oky¯o Metropolitan Central
History
Ajia
Rekishi Shiy¯o Sent¯a
アジア歴史資料センター
http://www.jacar.go.jp/
Japan Center for Asian Historical Records
A digital archive of digitalized images of historical records
related to Asia dating from the early Meiji era to the end of
the Pacific War held in the National Archives of Japan, the
Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
and the Library of the National Institute for Defense Studies
of the National Defense Agency and database of cataloged information
accessible through the Internet.
Kokubungaku Kenky¯u
Shiry¯okan
国文学研究資料館
http://history.nijl.ac.jp/
Dept. of Historical Documents in the National Institute of Japanese
Literature
Kokuritsu K¯obunshokan
国立公文書館
http://www.archives.go.jp/
Cabinet Library, National Archives of Japan
Kokuritsu
Rekishi Minzoku Hakubutsukan Toshoshitsu
国立歴史民俗博物館
http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/index.html
National Museum of Japanese History Library
Kokuritsu
Rekishi Minzoku Hakubutsukan Database Rekihaku
国立歴史民俗博物館「データベースれきはく」
http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/doc/t-db-index.html
National Museum of Japanese History Database Rekihaku
Graphic database of the holdings of the National Museum of Japanese
History is available.
Kunaicho Shory¯obu
宮内庁
http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/
Archives and Mausoleum Dept., Imperial Household Agency
Seikad¯o
Bunko
静嘉堂文庫美術館
http://www.seikado.or.jp/menu.htm
The Seikad¯o Bunko Library
Toky¯o
Daigaku Shiry¯o Hensanjo Toshoshitsu
東京大学史料編纂所図書室
http://www.hi.u-tokyo.ac.jp/hilib.html
The Historiographical Institute Library, Univ. of T¯oky¯o
T¯oy¯o Bunko
東洋文庫
http://www.toyo-bunko.or.jp/
The T¯oy¯o Bunko/Oriental Library
Yokohama Kaik¯o
Shiry¯okan
横浜開港資料館
http://www.kaikou.city.yokohama.jp/
Yokohama Archives of History
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Japanese
Studies in Foreign Languages
Doitsu-Nihon
Kenky¯ujo Toshoshitsu
ドイツ-日本研究所図書室
http://www.dijtokyo.org/?page=library.php&menu=6&lang=ja
German Institute for Japanese Studies
Kokusai
Bunka Kaikan Toshoshitsu
国際文化会館図書室
http://www.i-house.or.jp/jp/library/top.htm
The International House of Japan Library
Kokusai
K¯ory¯u Kikin Toshokan
国際交流基金図書館
http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/urawa/e_j_library/e_lry_01.html
The Japan Foundation Library
Kokusai
Nihon Bunka Kenky¯u Sent¯a (Nichibunken)
国際日本文化研究センター
http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/lib/library_e.html
Library, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Nichi-Futsu Kaikan
Toshoshitsu
日仏会館図書室
http://www.mfj.gr.jp/jp/bibl-j.html
Library of the France-Japan House
Journalism
Shinbun Hakubutsukan
日本新聞博物館
http://www.pressnet.or.jp/newspark/index.html
Japan Newspaper Museum Newspaper Library
T¯oky¯o
Daigaku Shakai J¯oh¯o Kenky¯ujo J¯oh¯o
Media Kenky¯u Shiry¯o Sent¯a
東京大学 情報学環 附属社会情報研究資料センター
http://www.isics.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~center/
The Newspaper and Multimedia Library, Institute of Socio-Information
and Communication Studies, Univ. of T¯oky¯o
T¯oky¯o
Daigaku Shakai J¯oh¯o Kenky¯ujo Toshoshitsu
東京大学社会情報研究所図書室
http://www.lib.isics.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kiyo.html
Institute of Socio-Information and Communication Studies, Univ.
of T¯oky¯o
Language
Kokusai
K¯ory¯u Kikin Nihongo Kokusai Sen¯ta Toshokan
国際交流基金日本語国際センター図書館
http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/urawa/e_j_library/e_lry_01.html
The Japan Foundation Japanese Language Institute Library
Literature
Haiku Bungakukan
俳句文学会
http://www2.famille.ne.jp/~haiku/
Museum of Haiku Literature
Kenritsu Kanagawa Kindai
Bungakukan
県立神奈川近代文学館
http://www.kanabun.or.jp/
Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature
Kokubungaku Kenky¯u Shiry¯okan
国文学研究資料館
http://www.nijl.ac.jp/
The National Institute of Japanese Literature
Kokubungaku
Kenky¯u Shiry¯okan Shiry¯okan
http://archives.nijl.ac.jp/ArcSrvIdx.htm
The National Institute of Japanese Literature Dept. of Historical
Documents
http://www.history.nijl.ac.jp/dhdidx-e.htm
National Institute
of Japanese Literature · Nihon Kindai Bungakukan
日本近代文学館
http://www.bungakukan.or.jp/
National Institute of Japanese Literature
Philosophy
and Religion
Komazawa
Daigaku Toshokan
駒澤大学図書館
http://www.komazawa-u.ac.jp/~toshokan/
Library, Komazawa Univ.
Kokugakuin
Daigaku Nihon Bunka Kenky¯ujo
國學院大學日本文化研究所
http://www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/index.html
Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin Univ.
Political
Science
H¯orei
Gikai Shiry¯o Shitsu at National Diet Library
国立国会図書館 議会官庁資料室
http://www.ndl.go.jp/horei_jp/index.htm
Government and Public Administration
Jinjiin Toshokan
人事院図書館
http://www.jinji.go.jp/top.htm
National Personnel Authority Library (NPA)
Kensei
Kinenkan
憲政記念館
http://www.shugiin.go.jp/itdb_annai.nsf/html/statics/kensei/kensei.htm?OpenDocument
Parliamentary Museum
Seifu Shiry¯o-t¯o
Fuky¯u Ch¯osakai, Shiry¯o Sent¯a/Seifu Shiry¯o
Ch¯osakai
政府資料等普及調査会、資料センター/政府資料調査会
http://www.gioss.or.jp/info/index.html
Government Data Research Center of Japan
- Local Government
Somush¯o Toshokan
総務省図書館
http://www.soumu.go.jp/
Ministry of Public management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications
Library
T¯oky¯o Shisei Ch¯osakai
Shisei Senmon Toshokan
東京市政調査会市政専門図書館
http://www.timr.or.jp/
Municipal Reference Library, T¯oky¯o Institute for
Municipal Research
- Iternational Relation
Gaimush¯o Daijin
Kanb¯o S¯omuka
外務省大臣官房総務課情報公開室
http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/annai/index.html
General Affairs Division, Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs
Gaimush¯o
Gaik¯o Shiry¯okan
外務省外交資料館
http://www.mofa.go.jp/about/hq/record/index.html
The Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Defense
B¯oeich¯o Boei Kenky¯ujo
Shiry¯o Etsuranshitsu
防衛庁防衛研究所資料閲覧室
http://www.nids.go.jp
The National Institute for Defense Studies Library, Defense Agency
- Law
H¯omu Toshokan
法務図書館
http://www.moj.go.jp/
Ministry of Justice Library
Saik¯o Saibansho
Toshokan
最高裁判所図書館
http://www.courts.go.jp/saikosai/tosyokan/
The Supreme Court Library
Dull text of cases and judgments of the Supreme Court in Japanese
and a summary of cases and judgments of Supreme Court in English
are available.
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Public
Health and Welfare
K¯osei
R¯od¯osh¯o Toshokan
厚生労働省図書館
http://library.mhlw.go.jp/
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Library
Nihon Shakai
Jigy¯o Daigaku Fuzoku Toshokan
日本社会事業大学付属図書館
http://www.jcsw.ac.jp/library/index.html
Japan College of Social Work library Philosophy and Religion
Science
and Technology
Kagaku
Gijutsu Shink¯o Jigy¯odan kagaku Gijutsu J¯oh¯o
Jigy¯o Honbu J¯oh¯o Shiry¯okan
科学技術振興事業団科学技術情報事業本部情報資料館
http://www.jst.go.jp/
JICST Library, JST Information Center for Science and Technology,
Japan Science and Technology Corp.
Society
Ajinomoto
Shoku no Bunka Raiburar¯i
味の素 食の文化ライブラリー
http://www.syokubunka.or.jp/reference/search/index.asp
Ajinomoto Foundation for Dietary Culture (AFDIC)
Kanky¯osh¯o Toshokan
環境省図書館
http://www.env.go.jp/
Ministry of the Environment Library
Kokumin Seikatsu
Sent¯a S¯omu Kikakubu Kikaku K¯oh¯oka J¯oh¯o
Shiry¯oshitsu
国民生活センター総務企画部企画公報課情報資料室
http://opac.kokusen.go.jp/opac/index.html
Library and Resource Room, The National Consumer Affairs Center
of Japan
Kokuritsu Shakai Hosh¯o,
Jink¯o Mondai Kenky¯ujo
J¯oh¯o Ch¯osa Bunsekibu Toshogakari
国立社会保障、人口問題研究所情報調査分析部図書係
http://www.ipss.go.jp/
Development of Information Collection and Analysis,
National Institute of Population and Social Security Research
T¯oky¯o-to
Kanky¯o Kagaku Kenky¯ujo Kikaku Kanrika Shiry¯oshitsu
東京都環境科学研究所企画管理課資料室
http://www2.kankyo.metro.tokyo.jp/kankyoken/
Tokyo Metropolitan Research Institute for Environmental Protection
Transportation
and Communication
Nihon Minkan H¯os¯o
Renmei (Minp¯oren)
日本民間放送連盟(民放連)
http://www.nab.or.jp/
The National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan
Un’yu
Seisaku Kenky¯u Kik¯o J¯oh¯o Shiry¯oshitsu
運輸政策研究機構情報資料室
http://www.jterc.or.jp/inforlib/inforlib.htm
Institution for Transport Policy Studies Library
Teishin S¯og¯o
Hakubutsukan
逓信総合博物館
http://www.teipark.jp/
Communications Museum
Women
Ichikawa
Fusae Kinenkai Toshoshitsu
石川房枝記念会図書室
http://www.ichikawa-fusae.or.jp
The Fusae Ichikawa Memorial Association Library
Kokuritsu
Josei Ky¯oiku Kaikan Josei Ky¯oiku J¯oh¯o
Sent¯a
国立女性教育会館女性教育情報センター
http://www.nwec.jp/English/guidance/index.html
Information Center for Women’s Education, National Woman’s
Education Center
Ochanomizu Joshi Daigaku
Jend¯a Kenky¯u Sent¯a
御茶ノ水女子大学ジェンダー研究センター
http://www.igs.ocha.ac.jp/
Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu Univ.
T¯oky¯o
Uimenzu Puraza Tosho Shiry¯oshitsu
東京ウィメンズプラザ図書資料室
http://www.tokyo-womens-plaza.metro.tokyo.jp/contents/library.html
T¯oky¯o Women’s Plaza Library
Publishers
Asian
Rare Books
http://users.erols.com/arbs/
Iwanami shoten
http://www.iwanami.co.jp/
Has its current booklist as well as lists of its shinsho, bunko,
tankobon and children's books.
Japanese Magazine Publishers
Association
http://www.j-magazine.or.jp/FIPP/
Pan Asian Publications
http://www.panap.com/
Seifu Kank¯obutsu (Zenkanp¯o)
http://www.gov-book.or.jp/
Publishes Japanese government publications such as hakusho and kanpo
Universities
and Colleges in Japan
Alphabetical Index of Japanese Universities
http://camp.ff.tku.ac.jp/TOOL-BOX/JapanUNIV/JUindexABC.html
Provides basic information (location, telephone number, URL, etc.)
of all colleges and universities in Japan, including official and
unofficial anglicized names.
Usenet/Newsgroup
Soc.culture.japan:
Everything Japanese, except the Japanese language.
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/tanaka/SCJ.html
Japan
Usenet List: The Yamada Center, University of Oregon
http://babel.uoregon.edu/
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Subject Specific Sites
Art
East
Asian Art History
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/html/chinese/index.html
Nixi Cura's Personal Web Page provides information on symposia,
conferences, grants and other items of interest to graduate students
of Chinese and Japanese art history. Includes a directory of graduate
students interested in East Asian art history.
Japanese Museums
(Duke Univ.)
http://library.duke.edu/research/subject/guides/japan/research/museums.html
Information about Japanese art museums, history museums and science
and natural history museums.
Ky¯oto National Museum
http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/
This On-Line Catalogue currently includes about 2,000 of the over
5,000 works owned by the Ky¯oto National Museum.
Nara National
Museum
http://www.narahaku.go.jp/gallery/index.html
Photographs and information for art objects in the Nara National
Museum collection.
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Buddhism
Business and Economics
Business
Resources on Japan
http://www.ibrc.bschool.ku.edu/country/asia/Japan/japan.htmCenter
for International Business School of Business University of Kansas
Global Window
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/research/japan/ The Guide to Business
Success, UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management
Japan Economic Foundation
(JEF)
http://www.jef.or.jp/en/index.html
JETRO (Japan
External Trade Organization)
http://www.jetro.go.jp/index.html
Japan government related organization promotes trade and economic
relations between Japan and other nations. Many useful information
are included.
Keidanren (Japan Federation
of Economic Organizations)
http://www.keidanren.or.jp/
Japanese Business
Directory: Companies, Information
http://www.keidanren.or.jp/A2J/index-m.html
Nikkei Business Publications
http://www.nikkeibp.co.jp/
Keizai Koho Center
http://www.kkc.or.jp/english/Japan
Institute for Social and Economic Affairs Nikkei Business Publications
offers the table of contents of 28 magazines' titles including Nikkei
Business and Nikkei Personal Computing.
Nikkei Net
Business Browser
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/enews/announce.html
The Japan Research Institute Limited
http://www.jri.co.jp/
Business services include: Research, Pacific Business Studies, Project
Development, Corporate Strategy and Business Development Consulting
and the Institute's research reports.
Wright Investors' Service: Wright
International Financial Center
http://www.wisi.com/
Profiles on over 14,000 firms from around the world (including over
2,000 in Japan): profiles include stock charts, descriptions of
the companies, names of the management, and 10 years of financial
data. There is no charge to access any of the profiles. The URL
is http://profiles.wisi.com, and you can either type in a company
name or ticker, or select by country or industry.
- Japanese
Business Directory: Companies, Information http://www.keidanren.or.jp/A2J/index-m.html
- JOY lite --- Japanese Open Yellowpage
J.O.Y. - Japanese Open Yellowpage
http://www.joyjoy.com/
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Cinema
Internet
Movie Database Search for Japan
http://us.imdb.com/M/list?countries=Japan
Entries for thousands of Japanese movies.
Japanese
Moving Image Culture on the Net / Kinema Club
http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html
Kinema Club is an informal group of scholars studying Japanese cinema
and other moving image media (our name comes from famous Taisho
era movie theaters in Tokyo and Kobe). We formed out of the shared
need for bibliographic information. Indexes and bibliographies of
Japanese language film resources are slim at best.
Kinejun
Movie Database
http://www.walkerplus.com/tokyo/movie/index.html
A database for mobies shown in Japan since 1945.
Matsuda
film production
http://www.matsudafilm.com/index_e.html : Japanese Index
of Movies
Matsuda provides a monthly update of information that will be of
interest to anyone who enjoys silent movies.
Tsutaya Online
http://www.tsutaya.co.jp/
Ttsutaya is a large chain of stores which sell and rent videos,
DVDs, and CDs in Japan. This site includes information about rental
videos, so you may find information regarding out-of-print videos.
Bibliographic information on movies and TV programs in Video, DVD
and CD, an annotation for each work, a commodity number and the
name of the distributor are available from this site.
Culture
(click
for Pop Culture)
Directories
NTT (Nippon Telegraph
and Telephone) Directory
http://english.itp.ne.jp/index.html
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Government : Japanese Government Sites
E-Gov: Search Japanese Government
Websites
http://www.e-gov.go.jp/
GIOSS-Net at Government Data Research
Center of Japan
http://www.gioss.or.jp/
J
Guide: Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources - Japanese
Government and Politics Information
http://jguide.stanford.edu/site/government_politics_16.html
Presented by the Stanford University US-Japan Technology Management
Center Now the WWW Virtual Library Site for Japan. This site provides
Japanese government and politics related links.
The Japan Documentation Center
http://memory.loc.gov/frd/jdcquery.html
The Japan Documentation Center (JDC) was established in 1992 as
a joint project between the Library of Congress and the Center for
Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation. The Center collects
"grey literature," which is unpublished and difficult
to obtain and this makes the Center's resources and services unique.
Japanese
Government
http://www.fedu.uec.ac.jp/FEDU/Info/government.html
JETRO (Japan External
Trade Organization)
http://www.jetro.go.jp/top/index.html
JETRO is a nonprofit, Japanese government related organization dedicated
to promoting mutually beneficial trade and economic relations between
Japan and other nations. This server provides useful information
relating business and trade.
Proceedings of Meetings of National
Diet
http://kokkai.ndl.go.jp/
E-text of the proceedings of meetings of the National Diet since
1947 is available in Japanese.
The Official Residence of the
Prime Minister
http://www.kantei.go.jp/
This server is located in the Prime Minister's official residence
in Tokyo, Japan. It provides a wide variety of governmental documents
including PDF files, firsthand reports on Japanese approaches, and
white papers.
Organizational
Chart of the Japanese Government
http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/cyuo-syocho/aratana.html
- The Organization
of Japanese Central Government
http://www.kantei.go.jp/index.html
- Kankocho Web
Server (Japanese)
http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/server-j.html
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History
Law
J
Guide: Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources -Law and Regulation
Information
http://jguide.stanford.edu/site/law_regulation_19.html
Presented by the Stanford University US-Japan Technology Management
Center Now the WWW Virtual Library Site for Japan. This site provides
law and regulation related links about Japan.
Japanese
Law Links
http://www.birdenlaw.com/favorite.htm
Over 50 web sites containing material related to Japanese law, particularly
business law. They are taken largely from Part II.i of a recently
published book, Japanese Business Law in Western Languages: An Annotated
Selective Bibliography (1998, Littleton Co, USA: Fred B Rothman
& Co), co-authored by Harald Baum and Luke Nottage. Page includes:
Introductory section; Japanese law related web sites (governmental
and quasi-governmental, organizations, academic institutions, associations,
law firms and individuals); Japanese case law and other development.
International
Military Tribunal for the Far East, Yale University Law School
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imtfem.htm
Searchable, full-text database.
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Language Learning
Learning Language Library
http://www.languagelearninglibrary.org/japanese/index
Resources on learning Japanese
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Literature
and Electronic Texts for Classical Literature
Aozora
Bunko
http://www.aozora.gr.jp/
Blue Sky Collection
E-text collections of copyright-free texts.
Ariadne E-script O
sagasu
http://www.ariadne.jp/e-script.html
http://www.ariadne.jp/e-text.html
Links to e-script and e-text.
Denshi
Tekisuto No Aru Basho, Nihon Bungaku
http://www.aozora.gr.jp/denshitext/denshitext.html
Links to e-text related to Japanese literature.
Denshi
Shiry¯o o teiky¯o shiteiru s¯ab¯a, University
of Ry¯uky¯u
http://sg3jk3se8d.search.serialssolutions.com/
Links to e-text supplied by academic universities in Japan
Japan Patent Office
Industrial Property Digital Library
http://www.ipdl.inpit.go.jp/homepg_e.ipdl
The Industrial Property Digital Library (IPDL) offers the public
broad access to the full text of the IP gazettes.
JLIT-L a Japanese lit listservice
Japanese literature related information workshop, conference, exhibit
is announced, together with any other literature related topics.
If you want to subscribe, send to listserv@vm.cc.purdue.edu a short
message: sub JLIT-L xyxy (Put your name in place of xyxy). Post
a messages to JLIT-L@vm.cc.purdue.edu.
Ky¯oto
University Library Electronic Library
http://edb.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/minds-eu.html
Includes full texts of many important literary texts (Kokin Wakash¯u,
Konjaku Monogatari, Genji Monogatari) as well as a searchable database
of original materials from the Meiji restoration which can be enlarged
and read on the web and some Buddhist sutras.
Nihon
Bungaku Kankei Tekisuto Fairu
http://www.konan-wu.ac.jp/~kikuchi/link/linkd.html
Links to e-text related to Japanese literature by titles.
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Newspapers
on the Web
T¯oky¯o
Kaleidoscope: A weekly news source
http://www.smn.co.jp/
Asahi Shinbun (J)
http://www.asahi.com/english/english.html
Asahi News Paper
(E)
http://www.asahi.com/english/english.html
Japan Times
(E)
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/
Japan Today
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=home
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=home
Mainichi Shimbun
(J)
http://www.mainichi.co.jp/
Mainichi News
(E)
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/
Metropolie
http://metropolis.co.jp/default.asp
Nihon Keizai Shimbun (J)
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/
Nikkei Net
(E)
http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/
Kyodo News
(J)
http://www.kyodo.co.jp/
Ky¯od¯o News (E)
http://home.kyodo.co.jp/
Ky¯oto Shimbun (E)
http://www.kyoto-np.co.jp/kp/index_e.html
Okinawa
Times (J)
http://www.okinawatimes.co.jp/
¯Osaka
Shimbun (J)
http://www.osakanews.com/
Sankei
Shimbun (J)
http://www.sankei.co.jp/main.html
T¯oky¯o Shimbun (J)
http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/
Yomiuri Shimbun (J)
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/
Daily Yomiuri
(E)
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm
Nihon Zasshi K¯okoku
Ky¯okai
http://www.zakko.or.jp/jpn/index.html
Online Japanese Magazines (Duke Univ.)
http://library.duke.edu/research/subject/guides/japan/starting/periodicals/online.html
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Popular
Culture (click for Culture)
Science and Technology
Center
for Global Communications (GLOCOM),
International University of Japan
http://www.glocom.ac.jp/
IPA Information-Technology
Promotion Agency
http://www.ipa.go.jp/about/toolcatalog/index.html
Japan Information Access Project
http://www.jiaponline.org/
The Project is a Washington, DC-based, independent, nonprofit research
center to strengthen international understanding of Japanese science,
technology, industry, security, and policy.
Japan Network Information
Center (JPNIC)
http://www.nic.ad.jp/en/
Japanese Software Digest
http://www.gy.com/www/ja.htm
National Center for Science Information
System (NACSIS)
http://www.nii.ac.jp/index.php?action=pages_view_main&page_id=47&lang=english
The National Institute of Informatics (NII) seeks to advance integrated research and development activities in information-related fields, including networking, software, and content.
Scientists and
Engineers in Japan: 1990
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/ebaut96b.html
Japan has a higher concentration of scientists and engineers among
its work force than do other.
Science and
Technology related sites from Japan Information Access Project
http://www.nmjc.org/jiap/other/sites.html#S&T
U.S.- Japan Technology Management
Center
http://fuji.stanford.edu/ provides analysis, information, and consulting
services such as: Technology developments in Japan; Best practices
in technology management ; Technical Japanese language; Japanese business
culture; Related services to build up the capabilities of U.S. firms
to work with Japanese counterparts.
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Sports
Nihon Sumo Kyokai
http://www.sumo.or.jp/
Sumo is a Japanese national sport. This official Sumo site introduces
a history of Sumo, rules, results of grand sumo tournaments and
individual data of sumo wrestlers.
Japan Karate Association
http://www.karatedo.co.jp/
The current Karate world world is comprised of about 300 (Kaiha)
groups from huge-sized groups holding a few thousands of members
to various small groups. These groups belong to Japan Karatedo Federation
under direct control of the Ministry of Education with the core
of four major kaiha groups.(Shotokan-Ryu, Goju-Ryu, Shito-Ryu and
Wado-Ryu)
The Kodokan Judo Institute
http://www.kodokan.org/
Judo, which is now exercised in many countries of the world, is
the very Kodokan Judo, created in 1882 by Prof. Jigoro Kano. This
site includes schedules and results of events and competitions,
explanation of figures and techniques, and general information of
Judo.
Japan Aikido
Association Official Homepage
http://www.dokidoki.ne.jp/home2/unoaiki/
This is an official homepage of Aikido Association. It consists
of schedules of events, results of tournaments held in USA, and
explanation of techniques.
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Statistical
Information
Stanford Japan Guide > Business & Economics > Statistics
http://jguide.stanford.edu/site/statistics_231.html
JGuide is the WWW Virtual Library for Japan and Japanese Related Topics
Statistics Bureau
& Statistics Center - Japan
http://www.stat.go.jp/english/info/guide/index.htm
An up-to-date statistics on Japan about unemployment rates, census,
manufacturing figures, trade statistics, etc.
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