Japanese Links

Art

Virtual Museum of Traditional Japanese Arts
An excellent comprehensive site by The Japanese Information Network

Hitoshi Doi's Anime Page

Joseph Wu's Origami Page

Vancouver-based, includes folding patterns

Computers & CALL

• Acces-J Japanese Webpage Viewer

  (allows non-Japanese-capable browsers to display)

• Nihongo
  Internet digest devoted to discussions of the Japanese language,
  computers and Japanese, and Japanese culture maintained by Jon Lacure
• Computing Japan Magazine
• Monash Nihongo Archive
  FTP archive of Japanese freeware
  indexed by operating system (here)
• Stephen Chung's JWP
  freeware excellent J-word processor for Windows
• Microsoft Global IME
  (Input Method Editor) allows Win 95/8 systems
  to browse in Oriental languages (works with IE 4.0 and Outlook)
• Excite Japan!
  Free Japanese e-mail (Registration in Japanese)
  
• Jim Breen Page

(creator of Japanese Dictionary JDIC project)

• Japanese Code Manipulation Tools
• Very Important Book to Read!
• The Monash Japanese Freeware ftp Site
• Reviews of Japanese CALL Software

Search Engines specifically for Japan

• Dragon Next
• GOO (Japanese)
• Hole-in-One (searching Japanese Web)
• Hole-in-One (searching Hole-in-One)
• Infoseek
• NikkeiNet
• Yahoo Japan

Culture

• Japanese Manners & Etiquette
• The Japan Web Guide's FAQ of Japan
• Rob's Japan Photo Gallery
• Japan National Tourist Organization
• Ukiyo-e: The Pictures of the Floating World
• Bilingual Haiku Scroll
• Kikkoman Soy Sauce - Japanese Food Glossary
• Popular Japanese Culture Resources at Duke University
• Images from Japan
  (Very interesting site with a plethora of information and pictures.)
• Teaching (and Learning) About Japanese Civilization and Culture

• TravLang Dictionary
• Kanji Networks. Etymologies of kanji, Chinese characters as used in Japan.

• Traveler's Japanese with Voice
• Conjugating Japanese Verbs
• Reviews of Japanese CALL Software
• The JLPT (Japanese Language Procifiency Test) Study Page

• Japanese Information Network If you're only ever going to visit one site
  about Japan, make it this one
• Stanford University's J-guide
• Jim Breen's Japanese Links
• U.S. - Japan Links
• Japanese-related Projects at Purdue University
• YAHOO! Japanese
• David Lam Centre Information
• Art Tower Mito
• Japanese Information Site with LOTS of information...
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
• NTT Homepage
• Lots of Interesting Links
• Online Language Translations
• Kotori Oriental World
  Books, CD-ROMs, dictionaries

• Kiosken : Newspapers all over the world
• Japan Times (English)
• MIT's Foreign Language News and Newspapers
• Kyoto Shimbun
• Yomiuri Shimbun
• Mainichi Shimbun*
• Computing Japan Magazine
• Asahi News in English
• Reuters Japan
• The Daily Yomiuri
• The Japan Times
• Kyodo News Agency Japan - English
• Kyodo News Agency Japan - Japanese

• CNN in Japanese
• TV NET - TV Station Links Around the World
• NHK
• Nikkei Net
• Radio Japan
• SCOLA Broadcast Information and Schedule

Maps and Atlases

• JIN's Atlas of Japan
• Yahoo! Japan's Map of Japanese Prefectures

Guides

• Price Check Tokyo!
• Internet Guide to Japan
• Kintetsu: Travel Finder
• Japan National Tourist Organization
• Yokohama Home Page
• InternetWork Kyoto
• Okinawa Home Page
• Tokyo's only mostly English FM Station