NOTE TO THE STUDENT:  This page is still under construction and will periodically change as new links are brought to our attention.  If you happen to find a site that may be of interest to your classmates, please submit them to your instructor.

General Links
Bibliography of Japan
http://library.kcc.hawaii.edu/asdp/biblio/history/japan/biblijap.htm

Japan Information Network
http://www.jinjapan.org/

Japanese Resources
http://www.ncal.verio.com/~manabu/jrp/

Japanese Links
http://www.mangajin.com/ezine/links.html

Asian Studies Links
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html

View Japanese (News, Sports, Music, Shopping, Enterntainment, E-Mail) on the
internet without special browsers
http://www.shodouka.com/

Japan Web Guide
http://thejapanfaq.cjb.net

Subject Guides
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~felsing/jstuff/jshelf.html
http://www.multilinguals.com.au/linksjpn.html#hist_n_culture
http://www.makura.com/paul/jbooks/history.html
http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/famous/index.html
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/jap.html
 
 

Geography
Virtual Tour of Japan
http://www.jinjapan.org/region/index.html
 
 

History
Japanese Premodern History
http://www.variable.net/hidden/japan/introduction.html

Japanese Myths (an exhaustive glossary/encyclopedia of terms and kami)
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/areas/japanese/

Ancient Japan
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/CONTENTS.HTM

Links to Japanese History from Kagoshima
http://civil.kagoshima-ct.ac.jp/civil/rekishiE.html

The Opening of Japan
http://www.nicom.com/~georgef/japan/history_japan.html

National Museum of Japanese History
http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/index_ne.html

Chronology of Japanese History
http://www.math.uic.edu/~dturk/showahistory.html

Japanese History Links on the Web
http://www.okanagan.bc.ca/arts/mola/jp/links-history.htm

History of Samurai
http://www.northnet.org/americankangdukwon/samurai.html

http://www.judoinfo.com/samurai.htm

http://www.techjapanese.com/~samurai/

Samurai Tour
http://www.kiku.com/electric_samurai/cobweb_castle/samurai_tour.html

Samurai Gallery
http://www.kiku.com/electric_samurai/cobweb_castle/samurai_gallery.html

Japanese History
http://www.nmc.csulb.edu/users/tfairchild/history_page.html

Edo Tour
http://www.us-japan.org/edomatsu/

Miyamoto Musashi
http://newdream.net/~yojimbo/musashi/mmHist.html
 
 

Literature & Art
Japanese Literature
http://www.kanzaki.com/jinfo/jliterature.html

Japanese Art
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~arth362/home.html
(compliments of Scott Smemo.  Note: when the username & password box comes up, type in ARTH362 in both; keep in mind it's case-sensitive.)

Kojiki
http://www.iacnet.ne.jp/~tomeji/kojiki.htm

Genji Homepage (Japanese)
http://www.mahoroba.or.jp/~genjiito/

Genji Monogatari (Japanese)
http://www.sainet.or.jp/~eshibuya/index.html

http://quartet.nijl.ac.jp/Genji/genji.html

Tale of Genji Scrolls
http://www.museum.cornell.edu/hfj/z_pastex/genji/genji_pp.html

http://real.irc.uci.edu/eee/98p/10013/genjiill.htm

Crafts
http://www.primenet.com/~bec/crafts.html
 
 

Performing Arts
Theater
http://www.primenet.com/~bec/theater.html

http://www.iijnet.or.jp/NOH-KYOGEN/english/english.html

Traditional Asian Music
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Music/ereserves/anderson103/103syl98.htm

Taiko
http://www.nichibeitimes.com/news/taiko.html
http://www.taiko.com/rollingthunder.html
http://www.taiko.com/resource/drummers.html
 
 

Philosophy & Religion
Resources on East Asian Philosophy (includes an online Buddhist dictionary)
http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/

Chinese Astrology
http://cat.nyu.edu/liaos/horoscope_old.html
 
 

Japanese Architecture
Architecture
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ealac/V3613/index.html

Castles
http://www.primenet.com/~bec/castles.html

Castles of Japan
http://www.magi.com/~ttoyooka/oshiro/index.html

Temples & Shrines
http://www.primenet.com/~bec/temples.html
 

Contemporary Society

A site with important information for students who will "homestay"  in Japan:

http://www.nime.ac.jp/athome/index.html
 
 

Language
Japanese Language Resources - The Mining Company
http://japanese.miningco.com/mbody.htm?terms=japanese&COB=home

Nihongo Journal
http://www.alc.co.jp/nihongoji/nj/nj00home.html

Kanji Learning Page
http://www.globalserve.net/~fylypchuk/

Another Kanji Page
http://members.aol.com/Joyo96/

Jim Breen's Translation Dictionary
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/wwwjdic/
 
 

Contemporary Media
Asahi News in English
http://www.asahi.com/english/english.html/

Japanese Bookstores (Japanese)
http://www.asahiya.com/

http://www.kinokuniya.com/omake/index.html

http://www.cityfujisawa.ne.jp/~books/top-e.html

Newspapers in Asia (49 Japanese newspapers!)
http://www.dds.nl/~kidon/media-link/aspapers.shtml

NHK in English (Japanese News and TV)
http://www.nhk.or.jp/index-e.html
 
 

Contemporary Issues

Human Rights
http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1999_hrp_report/japan.html
 

Japanese Government Policies in Education
http://www.monbu.go.jp/hakusyo/eng/contents.html

Education
http://www.primenet.com/~bec/schools.html
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/JapanCaseStudy/chapter1a.html

Ijime
http://jin.jcic.or.jp/insight/html/focus07/being_young/Bullying_or_ijime.html
http://www.childresearch.net/CYBRARY/MABM/MEMBER3.HTM
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Research5/Japan/secondary_j3.html
http://www.nttls.co.jp/fpc/e/shiryo/jc/jc.html
 

Teen Violence
http://fatherfamilylink.gse.upenn.edu/research/recent/9804jpn.htm
http://www.nttls.co.jp/fpc/e/shiryo/jc/jc.html
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9803/14/japan.teen.violence/
(and see related story on this website)
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n670.a11.html
http://www.schooladministrator.net/previous-news-may14-00.html
(scroll down for article on Japan)
http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/0520.htm
http://dangermedia.org/aufschrei/kidssubcultures.html

Enjo Kosai (Compensated dating)
http://www.belmont.edu/Humanities/Philosophy/courses/PHI152F98/JapaneseMC/EnjoKosai.html
http://www.weekender.co.jp/LatestEdition/980904/oped.html
http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/sex/sexenjo.html
http://www.ishipress.com/enjoko-2.htm
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/9840/features-whitehead.shtml

Women in Japan
http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/women.html
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/jap.html
http://web.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/sociology/level2/Gender.html
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~felsing/jstuff/gender.html
http://cweb.middlebury.edu/f00/ja350a/references/index.htm
Annual report on Gender Equality: http://www8.cao.go.jp/danjyo/english/plan2000/2000/index.html
 

Sexuality
http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue3/mclelland2.html
http://www.westernbuddhistreview.com/vol3/homosexuality.html

Burakumin
http://jbe.la.psu.edu/7/alldritt001.html
http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/Politics/nakagami.html
http://www.nancho.net/kyoto/nadamoto.html
http://www.culturalbridge.com/jpa.htm
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/~scs1sp/3.4/7.html

Koreans in Japan
http://www.han.org/

Koseki (Family Registry)
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Garage/4464/koseki1.html
http://www.japanorama.com/koseki.html
http://www.miburo.com/info/koseki.jpg
http://www.egroups.co.jp/message/not_honyaku/195
http://www.ufj.gol.com/newsletter/koseki.html

Crime
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/9151/dark.htm

Yakuza
http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~northrup/dylan/yakuza.html
http://members.tripod.com/orgcrime
http://www.alternatives.com/crime/menu.html#japan
http://w1.313.telia.com/~u31302275/yakuza.htm
http://organizedcrime.about.com/newsissues/organizedcrime/cs/yakuza/

Popular Culture
Japanese Animation and Manga
http://cweb.middlebury.edu/wt00/id085a/manga/biblio.html
http://web.mit.edu/rei/www/Anime.html
http://www.anipike.com
http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~sk226/nerd.html
http://www.sirius.com/~cowpunk/Libguide.html
http://matt-thorn.com

Advertising
http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue3/holden_paper1.html

Sports & Pastimes
Sumo for Beginners
http://www.wnn.or.jp/wnn-t/nyumon/beginner/nyumon.html

Sumo World Magazine
http://iac.co.jp/~sumowrld/

More Sumo
http://www.scgroup.com/sumo
http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/dojo/7039/akeinter1JT.htm
http://www.stonebridge.com/SUMO/sumo.html

Kendo
http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~t94011aa/kendo.html
 
 

Food
Asian Food
http://www.orientalfood.com/

Sushi
http://www.digitalsushi.net/
http://www.sushi101.com/
http://international-gourmet.net/sushi/
 

Miscellaneous Interests
Japanese Sword Construction
http://www.ii.uib.no/~kjartan/swordfaq/section09.html

Japanese Sword Index
http://www.gemlink.com/~rstein/nihonto.htm

Japanese Currency Museum
http://imes.boj.or.jp/cm/english_htmls/index.htm
 

Japan and the United States

A comprehensive site for information on the Internment of Japanese-Americans
during WWII.  Links to information on the 100th Battalion of the 442nd RCT known as the
"Purple Heart Battalion;" links to personal memoirs; links to photographs; links to historical timelines

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/main.html