Web Sites for Japanese Studies

Computer Resources:

• Adobe Acrobat Reader - Asian Font Packs 
• Alan Wood's Unicode Resources
• Quick and Dirty Guide to Installing and Using East Asian Languages Under Windows 2000 and Windows XP
• Microsoft Global Input Method Editor



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Dictionaries:

• Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server
• Rikai
• Sanseido Web Dictionary
  
  
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Foundations

• Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership
• Japan Foundation, New York
• Japan-United States Friendship Commission
• United States-Japan Foundation



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General Sites

• Academic Society Home Village(学協会情報発信サービス)
• ARIADNE - Resources for Arts and Humanities
• Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo (東京大学社会科学研究所)
• International Research Center for Japanese Studies (国際日本文化研究センター)
• Japan Information Network
• Japan National Tourist Organization
• J-Guide: Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources
• National Institute of Informatics(国立情報研究所)
• Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University



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Libraries

• Ask an East Asian Studies Librarian
• Council on East Asian Libraries
• International House of Japan Library (国際文化会館図書室)
• Japanese Studies Resources, Duke University East Asian Collection
• Kyoto University Digital Library (京都大学電子図書館)
• National Diet Library（国立国会図書館）
• North American Coordinating Council for Japanese Library Resources
• Online Resources for Japanese Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst East Asian Collection
• University of Tokyo Digital Library Division (東京大学情報基盤センター図書館電子化部門)
• University of Tokyo Library System (東京大学附属図書館)



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News

• Kyodo News Service
• NHK



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Newspapers

• Asahi Shinbun (朝日新聞)
• The Japan Times
• Mainichi Shinbun (毎日新聞)
• Nihon Keizai Shinbun (日本経剤新聞)
• Sankei Shinbun (産経新聞)
• Yomiuri Shinbun (読売新聞)



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Photos

• Database of Early Photographs (International Research Center for Japanese Studies) - requires registration
• Early Photo Database (Historiographical Institute at University of Tokyo)
• Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period (University of Nagasaki)
• Mainichi Photo Bank
• Peace Database (Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation) - requires registration



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Search Engines

• Google Japan
• Yahoo! Japan



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Selected Sites By Subject

Anthropology

• Japan Anthropology Workshop
• Japanese Society of Ethnology (日本民族学会)
• National Museum of Ethnology (国立民族博物館)
• Society for East Asian Anthropology

Art History

• Kyoto National Museum （京都国立博物館）
• Museum Information Japan: artscape
• Tokyo National Museum (東京国立博物館)
• Viewing Japanese Prints
• Virtual Museum of Traditional Japanese Arts

Business and Economics

• Bank of Japan (日本銀行)
• Japan Center for Economic Research (日本経済研究センター)
• Japan External Trade Organization (日本貿易振興会)
• Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs (経済広報センター)
• Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry （経済産業省）
• Ministry of Finance (財務省)
• Mizuho Securities Research & Links - An English Language Resource on Japanese Finance
• Nippon Keidanren (日本経済団体連合会)
• Small and Medium Enterprise Information for Japan
• Statistics, Web Japan
• Tokyo Stock Exchange(東京証券取引所)

History

• Bibliography of Japanese History up to 1912, Cambridge Faculty of Oriental Studies
• Edo-Tokyo Museum (江戸東京博物館)
• Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo(東京大学史料編纂所)
• Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (アジア歴史資料センター)
• Japanese Historical Maps, East Asian Library - University of California, Berkeley
• Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
• National Archives of Japan(国立公文書館)
• National Museum of Japanese History (国立歴史民俗博物館)

Linguistics and Literature

• Association of Teachers of Japanese
• Blue Sky Collection (青空文庫)
• Denshi Tekisuto no Aru Basho Nihon Bungaku(電子テキストのある場所・日本文学)
• Japanese Text Initiative, University of Virginia
• National Institute for Japanese Language （国立国語研究所）
• National Institute of Japanese Literature (国文学研究資料館)

Political Science

• Cabinet Office (内閣団)
• e-Gov (電子政府の総合窓口)
• Government Publications (政府刊行物)
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外務省)
• National Diet of Japan, House of Councillors （参議院）
• National Diet of Japan, House of Representatives (衆議院)
• Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet (首相官邸)
• Proceedings of Meetings of the National Diet (国会会議録)
• Statistics, Web Japan
• Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Religious Studies

• Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library
• Society for the Study of Japanese Religions (日本宗教研究会)
• Resources for East Asian Language and Thought, Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University
• Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture (南山宗教文化研究所)

Sociology

• Gender Information Site (内閣団　男女共同参画局)
• Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Institute (部落解放・人権研究所)
• Institute for Free Time Design (自由時間デザイン協会)
• Japan Institute of Labor (日本労働研究機構)
• Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (文部科学省)
• Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (厚生労働省)
• National Institute for Educational Policy Research (国立教育政策研究所)
• National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (国立社会保険・人口問題研究所)
• National Women's Education Center (国立女性教育会館)
• Statistics, Web Japan
• Takazawa Collection, Japanese Social Movement Materials at the University of Hawaii

Statistics

• Statistics, Web Japan
• Statistics Bureau and Statistics Center (総務省・統計局、統計センター)

Theatre and Drama

• Japanese Society for Theatre Research （日本演劇学会)



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