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JAPANESE INDEX SITES

• Tokyo HQ - Everything about Tokyo in Japan.
• Japan Zone - A guide to Japan and Japanese culture aimed at the rest of the world, with travel information, and sections for Japanese popular culture and Japanese etiquette. The site's a labor of love for Mark McBennett, a young Irishman who found himself working in Japan in the late 1980s, and then married a Japanese woman and settled there. It's nicely organized with lots of informational text supporting relevant links to sites about each topic.
• National Clearinghouse for US-Japan Studies - Indiana University's clearinghouse Internet guide to annotated lists of recommended Web sites about Japan arranged by topic.
• Annotated Directory of East and Southeast Asia Internet Resources - A well-compiled project of the University of Redlands Asian Studies Program.
• Asiaco - A search engine/index site for links to information about Asia presented country-by-country. Includes Philippines but not Australia/New Zealand or other Pacific Oceana countries.
• The Japan Reference Page - The Japan Reference Page, a private and non-commercial site, is an extensive and well-organized directory covering online resources related to Japan. In the years since I've been linking to Web sites about Japan, there has been such an explosion of online resources that it's great to have a site such as this to help sort it all out.
• Search Beat Japan Web & Internet Guide - Here's a new index of Japan-related Web sites and resources. At least, it's new to me.... It's divided into sections for highlights, arts and culture, regional and city guides, media, science and education and so on.
• Asia History and Cultural Guide... The History Beat - The History Beat is a cool and very complete site. The Asia section is equally rich with links and resouces. A great starting point for history reserarch about Japan and all of Asia.
• Keiko Schneider's Bookmarks - Keiko Schneider has a list of links about Japanese language and culture.
• Manjiro Society - One of the greatest experiences of my life was the 1995 Grassroots Summit in Kagoshima. I had a wonderful time, learned a lot and made great friends. I wrote an article about that year's trip. This year's Seminar (renamed and under new sponsorship), planned for Nov. 3-10, will take Americans to Shizuoka, Japan for a combination of sightseeing tour, educational trip and hotel- and homestay. I recommend the trip highly -- best of all, it's a great price.
• Rob's Japan Page -- The Japan FAQ Annex - A helpful site of manners and etiquette in Japan.
• The Japan Web Guide - Rob Murphy's compilation of tips on how to travel to and live in Japan, with handy hyperlinks from the tips to other sites.
• Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) - Japanese government office whose sole purpose is to help promote tourism by foreigners in Japan, including making their trips as pain-free as possible.
• J-Guide - A comprehensive site of links about Japan run by Stanford University's US-Asia Technology Management Center. It's a good starting place for Americans interested in finding out about Japan, Japanese cyber-culture and Japanese Web servers.
• Notable Japan Web Sites - From the University of Oregon East Asian Studies collection.
• Japan, My Japan! - I must admit, after a while most of these pages of hotlinks seem to feature overlapping sites (including mine). But this page has some different links -- mostly because it's incredibly exhaustive. Mistuharu Matsuoka, an associate professor of Language & Culture at Nagoya University, has compiled (and continues to maintain) a terrific collection of many links in a whole bunch of categories. "Japan, My Japan" is a *great* jumping-off point for exploration of all things Japanese -- just be sure you have plenty of time to surf!
• Japan Daruma - Sensibly divided between "Business" and "Pleasure" links. 
• Information About Japan - A site designed for Americans who are going to be visiting or living/working in Japan. JapanInfo serves as a good introduction to life in Nihon, including a section on JET, the popular program that sends Americans to Japan to teach English.
• Beyond ... The BlackStump - A Comprehensive Australian list that links to Web sites for every country in Asia.
• Quirky Japan - Not your typical tourist travelogue guide to Japan! It's a look at the unusual, out-of-the-way aspects of Japanese culture and travel.
• Gateway Japan - Gateway Japan features U.S.-Japan cultural information, information for Japanese living in the Washington DC metro area (in Japanese), job postings in Japan and links to other information for culture and community. There's also a research database for members.
• Japan Access - An informational site produed by the Ministry of Information.
• The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture - A bit scholarly, but that's because this is a Web site is hosted by Columbia University. Founded in 1986 at Columbia, the Center is named for Professor Keene, an internationally renowned scholar, Columbia University teacher, and interpreter of Japanese literature and culture to the West. The Center is dedicated to advancing the understanding of Japan and its culture in the United States through university instruction, research, and public education.
• The Spencers in Iwakuni, Japan - An incredible Web site. This is the home page of a family stationed at the Marine Corps Air Station in Iwakuni, Japan, which is near Hiroshima. My family lived there for a year and a half when I was 7-8 years old in the mid-'60s. It reminded me how much the U.S. military has served as a cultural bridge between America and Japan. This family loves and appreciates everything about being in Japan, and has extensive information for visitors and military who are or will be stationed there. There are lots of photos, and a nice links page for further exploration. Thanks to Donella Spencer, who maintains the site and is the likable voice and personality stamped all over it, this is the Internet being used as an awesome mass medium, on a grass-roots level. Bravo!
• Schauwecker's Guide to Japan - A handy online overview by a respected Japan hand and scholar Stefan Schauwecker, which includes broad categories with information and links to other sites (the History section is concise and complete). There's also a forum for communication, photo "galleries" including special historical exhibits of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake which destroyed Tokyo, and images from the 1937 invasion of Shanghai. A great place to start your research and education about Japan.
• Japanese Travel Links - An interesting list of links to sites that will come in handy if you're traveling to Japan.
  

  
  
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