Useful Web Sites for Japanese Studies
Portal sites for finding English Web sites on Japan
Asia Resources on the World Wide Web (Association for Asian Studies)
http://www.aasianst.org/asiawww.htm
A list of extensive online resources
compiled by Raymond Lum.
Useful for researchers in Asian Studies.
Japanese Studies Resources (Duke University East Asian Collection)
http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/japan/japanesestudies.html
An English-language site of extensive
reference resources
in academic Japanese studies. Includes
both online and
printed resources.
Online Resources for Japanese Studies (Harvard-Yenching Library Website)
http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/japanese/
Japanese Studies Network Forum (Japan Foundation)
http://www.jsnet.org/
Japan Information Network
http://jin.jcic.or.jp/
A useful portal site for information
about Japan. Statistics, maps,
directories and information on the latest
trends are available.
Portal sites for finding Japanese Web sites on Japan
Literary database compendium: Links to free searchable databases (Jissen
Women's University Library)
http://www.jissen.ac.jp/library/bjenglish.htm
Ariadne: resources for Arts and Humanities
http://ariadne.jp/
Links to Web sites for information
in humanities and the arts.
Dnavi (National Diet Library)
http://dnavi.ndl.go.jp/
Dnavi is a portal site operated by
the National Diet Library (NDL;
Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan) that records
a large amount of
information from Web sites in Japan. It
navigates users to a
variety of databases.
Academic Society HomeVillage (National Institute of Informatics)
http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/index-e.html
Links to academic societies in Japan.
Searchable by the English
name of the society, but most of the texts
are only in Japanese.
Useful Web sites for finding information on Japan by subject
Pressnet (The Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association)
http://www.pressnet.or.jp/english/index.htm
This Web site is operated by the Nihon
Shinbun Kyokai, which is an
independent organization representing some
150 daily newspapers,
news agencies and broadcasters in Japan.
Pressnet offers the latest
information on Japanese newspapers. An
online directory of the
member organizations is available.
The Japan Times Online (Japan Times)
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/
Kyodo News on the Web （共同通信）
http://home.kyodo.co.jp/
Mainichi Interactive （毎日新聞記事データベース）
http://www.mainichi-msn.co.jp/
Mainichi Photo Bank （毎日フォトバンク）
http://photobank.mainichi.co.jp/
Digital archive for more than 450,000
photographs, including 120,000
photographs taken in the pre-World War
II period. One can search by
keyword and browse the photographs, copies
of which can be purchased
through the Web page.
Prime Minister of Japan and His cabinet （首相官邸）
http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/index-e.html
e-Gov: search Japanese Government Websites （電子政府の総合窓口）
http://www.e-gov.go.jp/
A Web site for searching information
supplied by the Japanese
government.
Useful for finding press releases, white
papers, statistics, etc.
Kampo （官報）
http://kanpou.npb.go.jp/
E-text (PDF file) of Kampo is available
for one week after publication.
Proceedings of meetings of the National Diet （国会会議録検索システム）
http://kokkai.ndl.go.jp/
E-text of the proceedings of meetings
of the National Diet since 1947 is
available in Japanese. One can search
by keyword, name of the speaker,
position of the speaker or the name of
the group to which the speaker
belongs.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan （外務省）
http://www.mofa.go.jp/
The official Web site of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs(外務省), Japan.
Japan Defense Agency （防衛庁）
http://www.jda.go.jp/e/index_.htm
National Policy Agency （警察庁）
http://www.npa.go.jp/english/index.htm
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry （経済産業省）
http://www.meti.go.jp/english/index.html
Ministry of Finance （財務省）
http://www.mof.go.jp/english/index.htm
Bank of Japan （日本銀行）
http://www.boj.or.jp/en/index.htm
The official Web site of the Bank
of Japan.
Basic economic and financial statistics are
available.
Statistics Bureau, Director-General for Policy Planning (Statistical
Standards) & Statistical Research and Training Institute (総務省統計局・政策統括官（統計基準担当）・統計研修所
http://www.stat.go.jp/english/index.htm
The official Web site of the Statistics
Bureau.
Basic information about statistics of the
Japanese government is available.
Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization
（日本貿易振興機構・アジア経済研究所）
http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Info/index.html
The index to journal articles and
catalogued books database available at the library
page is useful to search articles in Japanese
on Asia.
The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training （労働政策研究・研修機構）
http://db.jil.go.jp/jiltop1_e.htm
Databases for "labor policy,"
"articles on labor," "research papers," "research
and
survey institutes," "research
and survey results," "labor-issues specialists,"
"orders and judgments on unfair labor
practices" are available.
The Ministry of Justice (法務省)
http://www.moj.go.jp/ENGLISH/preface.html
Supreme Court of Japan （最高裁判所）
http://courtdomino2.courts.go.jp/home.nsf/ehome?OpenPage
Full text of cases and judgments of
the Supreme Court in Japanese and
a summary of cases and judgments of
the Supreme Court in English are
available.
The updating of English information is
slower than for Japanese.
Japan Federation of Bar Associations （日本弁護士連合会）
http://www.nichibenren.or.jp/en/index.html
National Women's Education Center, Japan （国立女性教育会館）
http://www.nwec.jp/English/
The official Web site of the National
Women's Education Center.
http://winet.nwec.jp/opac/expart-query-e?mode=0&key=
A database for bibliographic information
about women and education
appearing in Japanese journals, books
and local governmental materials
is available.
Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University （お茶の水女子大学ジェンダー研究センター）
http://www.igs.ocha.ac.jp/
A database for Japanese articles on
gender studies is available.
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology （文部科学省）
http://www.mext.go.jp/english/index.htm
National Institute for Educational Policy Research （国立教育政策研究所）
http://www.nier.go.jp/homepage/kyoutsuu/English/index.html
Japan Science and Technology Agency （科学技術振興機構）
http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/
Japan Patent Office Industrial Property Digital Library （工業所有権情報・研修館）
http://www.ipdl.ncipi.go.jp/homepg_e.ipdl
The Industrial Property Digital Library
(IPDL) offers broad public access
to the full text of the IP gazettes.
DNP Museum information in Japan : artscape
http://www.dnp.co.jp/artscape/index.html
A portal site for art exhibitions
and art museums.
Music Forest （音楽の森）
http://www.minc.gr.jp/
A portal site for music, including
information about CDs, artists, copyrights, etc.
Koizumi Fumio Memorial Library related links （小泉文夫記念資料館関連サイト）
http://www.geidai.ac.jp/labs/koizumi/site/index.html
A list of links to Web sites about
ethnomusicology including traditional
Japanese music.
Gakufu netto （楽譜ネット）
http://www.gakufu.ne.jp/GakufuNet/index.phtml
This Web site is operated by an online
shop for music scores. Bibliographic information
for scores including Japanese pop and traditional
music is available.
Tsutaya Online
http://www.tsutaya.co.jp/index.zhtml
Tsutaya 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.
The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University （早稲田大学坪内博士記念演劇博物館）
http://www.waseda.ac.jp/enpaku/index-e.html
Prints of Kabuki actors are exhibited
at the Ukiyo-e Gallery on the Web.
@pia （ぴあ）
http://www.pia.co.jp
Ticket information about music concerts,
the performing arts, films, and art exhibitions
is available.
National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo （東京国立近代美術館フィルムセンター）
http://www.momat.go.jp/fc.html
Kinejun Eiga DB （キネマ旬報全映画作品データベース）
http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun/index.cgi?identifier=hkine
A database for movies shown in Japan
since 1945. Searchable by keyword, title of the movie,
name of director and actors. Search
results show the date of release, name of distributor, list
of staff, list of actors, annotation
and abstract of the story.
National Institute of Japanese Literature Digital Library (国文学研究資料館)
http://www.nijl.ac.jp/databases/databases.htm
Blue Sky Collection （青空文庫）
http://www.aozora.gr.jp/
E-text collections of copyright-free
Japanese texts.
Denshi tekisuto no aru basho, Nihon bungaku （電子テキストのある場所・日本文学）
http://www.aozora.gr.jp/denshitext/denshitext.html
Links to e-texts related to Japanese
literature.
Nihon bungaku kankei tekisuto fairu to （日本文学関係テキストファイル等）
http://www.konan-wu.ac.jp/~kikuchi/link/
Links to e-texts related to Japanese
literature by titles.
Annual bibliography of Oriental studies （東洋学文献類目）
http://www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/db/CHINA3/index.html.ja
The database for the Toyogaku Bunken
Ruimoku (Bibliography of Asian Studies) of the
Documentation and Information Center for
Chinese Studies, Institute for Research in
Humanities, Kyoto University. This is a
good bibliography for books and periodical articles
on oriental studies published in Japan.
The Toyo Bunko （東洋文庫）
http://www.toyo-bunko.or.jp/ToyoBunko-E/index-e.html
Useful databases on Asian studies
in Japanese are available at this Web site.
The Institute of Oriental Culture, Tokyo University （東京大学東洋文化研究所）
http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index-ENG.html
Useful databases on Asian studies
in Japanese are available at this Web site.
Japan Center for Asian Historical Records, National Archives of Japan
(国立公文書館アジア歴史資料センター)
http://www.jacar.go.jp/asia_en/index_en.html
A digital archive of 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. One can search in
English and digital images of the full text in Japanese
are available.
Archives in NIJL （国文学研究資料館）
http://history.nijl.ac.jp/dhdidx-e.htm
The Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo （東京大学史料編纂所）
http://www.hi.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
International Research Center for Japanese Studies （国際日本文化研究センター）
http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/welcome_e.htm
Internet access to a library's catalog of holdings
National Institute of Informatics-Webcat （国立情報学研究所）
http://webcat.nii.ac.jp/webcat_eng.html
Webcat is the database of a union
catalog for books and journals held in Japanese
academic libraries.
National Diet Library （国立国会図書館）
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/index.html
Online catalog of holdings of the
National Diet Library.
http://asiaopac.ndl.go.jp/index_e.html
An online catalog of Korean and Chinese
materials held in the National Diet Library is
also available.
Zenkoku Kanseki Database （全国漢籍データベース：日本所藏中文古籍數據庫）
http://www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kanseki/
The database of a union catalog for
Chinese classic literature in Japanese academic libraries.
Tokyo Metropolitan Library （東京都立図書館）
http://www.library.metro.tokyo.jp/12/
Public Libraries （公共図書館）
http://www.jla.or.jp/link/public.html
Links to Web sites of public libraries
organized by the Japan Library Association.
Selected List of Special Libraries in Japan Open to the Public （専門図書館OPAC）
http://www6.ocn.ne.jp/~jslakant/jsl/jslframe.htm
The Library of Congress (U. S.) Catalog Online
http://catalog.loc.gov/
Tokyo National Museum （東京国立博物館）
http://www.tnm.go.jp/en/servlet/Con?pageId=X00&processId=00
Nara National Museum （奈良国立博物館所蔵）
http://www.narahaku.go.jp/index_e.html
Kyoto National Museum （京都国立博物館）
http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/index_top.html
National Museum of Japanese History （国立歴史民俗博物館）
http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/index_ne.html
A graphic database of the holdings
of the National Museum of Japanese History is available.
National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan （国立民族学博物館）
http://www.minpaku.ac.jp/database/
A database for Japanese books and
articles about costume is available.
Yahoo!Japan
http://www.yahoo.co.jp/
Google
http://www.google.co.jp/
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http://dmoz.org/
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