Japan, my Japan! -- A Guide to Japan

Mt. Fuji or Fujiyama. It is the highest mountain (3,776m or 12,285ft) in Japan and is world-famous for its superb conical form. This symbol of the beautiful land is located on the border of Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. Although it has been dormant, it is classified by geologists as an active volcano. To the Japanese mind, Fujisan is much more than a single volcano. It is regarded as a sacred object, and the climbing of Mt. Fuji has long been a religious practice. It has exerted a great influence upon Japanese culture. Throughout the history of Japanese art and literature, this holy mountain has been the subject of uncountable poems and pictures. The yearning for greatness and beauty symbolized by Fujisan led the ancients to name many local mountains and towns after this beautiful mountain. Some sumo wrestlers and popular stars also have ring names or stage names associated with Fujisan. (Bates Hoffer, An English Dictionary of Japanese Culture)

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General Search Culture & Society
Mass Media Travel Tokyo Literature Language Misc.

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Kabuki Actor, Ukiyo-e
"Yakko Edo-bei" by Toshusai Syaraku (1787-?)

General Resources

1. Bridge to Japan
2. Colonel Craig's Japan Links
3. CSJ
4. Famous Personages in Japan
5. Gail and Sherry's Japanese Links
6. Government
   [Prime Minister's Official Residence]
7. Internet Directory (Netscape JP)
8. Japan (CityNet)
9. Japan as I see it
10. Japan-America's Japan Links
11. Japan Etcetra
12. Japan Interface
13. Japan Links
14. Japan Photo Gallery (W. Dire Wolff)
15. Japannet.de: Links to Japan (Tobias Wittig)
16. Japan Window Home Page
17. Japan Zone, The - Everything you want to know about Japan.
18. Jim Breen's Japanese Page (Monash University, Melbourne)
19. jin.jcic.or.jp
20. mynippon
21. Regional Information (JIN)
22. Web Japan
23. WWW Servers in Japanese goverment
24. Yahoo / Japan

Search Engines and Directories

1. Achara Navi
2. CSJ Index (Cyber Space Japan)
3. EasySEARCH
4. Excite Japan
5. Flesh Eye
6. goo
7. google
8. Infoseek Japan
9. Japan Web Navigator
10. KENSAKU (JIS)
11. JOY Searcher (JOY)
12. NetCity
13. Moshix2
14. ODIN (Harada, Univ. of Tokyo)
15. PanaSearch
16. Yahoo Japan

Culture & Society

1. Animation [ANIME][The MIT Anime]
2. Fine Arts
   • SUMIE World - RITSUO SUGIYAMA
3. Japanese Event Archives
4. History
   • History of Japanese Railways
5. Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement)
6. Japanese Garden
7. Japanese Noh Mask
8. KABUKI for EVERYONE
9. Museum "Meiji-mura", The
10. Music
    • Kenji Sano (Lute)
11. Noh Mask
12. Origami (Paper folding) [Origami Yakata][Making of Crane]
13. Shogi (Japanese chess) [RICOH]
14. Ukiyo-E [Ukiyo-e - Pictures of the floating world][Jim Breen's Ukiyo-E Gallery][Shunsen Art Musuem]
15. Yubiya
16. Foods & Drinks
    • How to make a Japanese buckwheat noodles?
    • Sake (Rice Wine) [Sake Page][The Sake of Tosa]
    • Sushi [Sushi Vocabulary]
17. Key Aspects of Japan: Traditional Japanese Culture & Modern Japan
18. Ukiyo-e - Pictures of the floating world
19. Yubiya
20. Real Japan (Culture)
21. Religion
22. Sports
    • Judo [Judo Information Site]
    • Martial arts in Japan
    • Soccer
      [SumoWeb!]
    • Universities
      • Japan Colleges and Universities (International Universities)
      • Japanese Schools (Toyama University)
      • Departments Related to Japanese Studies
        • Chicago, University of - East Asian Languages and Culture
        • Colorodo at Boulder, University of - East Asian Languages and Literature
        • Columbia University - East Asian Languages and Culture
        • Duke University - Asian/Pacific Studies
        • Hawaii, University of - School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies
        • Iowa, University of - Asian Languages and Literature
        • London, University of - School of Oriental and African Studies
        • Oregon, University of - Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
        • Texas, University of - Asian Studies Network
        • UCLA - East Asian Languages and Culture

Mass Media

1. Newspapers [Asahi][Mainichi][Yomiuri]
2. Televisions [NHK][TV-Asahi][TBS][NTV][FIP][NTV]
3. Radios [[Nikkei Netnavi][Nikkei View][Softbank]
4. Publishers [ASCII Corporation][BNN]
5. Books [Cyber Book Store][Asian Rare Books][The JAPAN BOOKSTORE][LOOK JAPAN - the English-language monthly LOOK JAPAN][Internet Magazine][Neo-Tokyo Magazine][The Foreigner]

Travel and Sightseeing

1. Airline Companies [ANA][JAL]
2. Japan National Tourist Organization
3. Japan Traveling Companion
4. Japanese Railway-Related Information
5. Japanese Cities and Towns
   • Fukuoka [Kyushu Central: Fukuoka]
   • Hiroshima [City of Hiroshima][Hiroshima Information]
   • Kitakyushu [City of Kitakyushu]
   • Kyoto [Kyoto Media Station]
   • Nagoya
   • Osaka [Japan Window]
   • Sapporo [Sapporo Information Page for Foreigners][Web City Sapporo]
   • Sendai [Sendai City Guide]
   • Tokyo
   • Yokohama [City of Yokohama]
6. Travel Agencies [Kinki Nippon Tourist]

7. Misc.
   • NASPA New Otani Resort, Yuzawa, Niigata Prefecture

Tokyo

1. Down and Out in Tokyo
2. Information Access Center, The -- Tokyo Journal
3. Media Library Inc
4. Prime Minister's Official Residence, The
5. Seeing in Tokyo - Gaijin Net
6. Tokyo (CityNet)
7. Tokyo Food Page
8. Tokyo Journey
9. Tokyo Leisure Page
10. Tokyo Off Time! - Directory (ftp)
11. Tokyo Online
12. Tokyo Meltdown
13. Tokyo Teleport

Literature

1. Akira Kitauchi's collection of Japanese Literature
2. Donald Keene Center Of Japanese Culture, The
3. Haiku (Japanese three-part poems of usu. 17 syllables)
   [aha.d][alt.tv.newsradio haikus][Angelic Beat Haiku Machine][Art of Haiku Poetry, The][Beverly Hills 90210 Haiku][Buson's Haiku and Paintings][Chaba][Children's Haiku Garden][Dogwood Blossoms][English Language Haiku by Brooks Books][Essays on Haiku][Gangsta Haiku][Grumpy Dog][Haiku Garden][Haiku in Low Places][Haiku.nl][Interactive Haiku][Kids in the Hall Haikus][Quake Haiku][Rose Mallow Haiku Class][SciFaiku.com][still: a journal of short verse][Toast Point Haiku Contest][TV Haiku]
4. Jan Moens's Japanese Literature Page
5. Japanese Classical Literature on the World Wide Web
6. Japanese Literature Archive
7. Japanese Poetry
8. Japanese Text Initiative (University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center) -- literature & language.
9. Japanese Writers (Yahoo Japan)
10. Kokubungaku Kenkyu Shiryokan
11. Literary Monuments in Japan (Akio Sakaguchi)
12. Manyoshu
13. National Institute of Japanese Literature
14. Tanka, American - a Japanese genre older than haiku.

15. Natsume, Soseki (1867-1916)
    • Ango.net
16. Basho, Matsuo
    • Oku no Hosomichi
    • Basho's Haiku
    • History of Haiku: Basho Matsuo
17. Dazai, Osamu (1909-1948)
    • Osamu Dazai
18. Genji Monogatari
    • Tale of Genji
    • Brief Genji Character List and Glossary
    • Dolls in the Tale of Genji
19. Issa Kobayashi
20. Kan, Kukuchi (1888-1948)
    • The Kukuchi Web
    • The Kikuchi Kan Archive
21. Kawabata, Yasunari (1899-1972)
    • Yasunari Kawabata Winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Encyclopedia.com
    • Kuusankosken kaupunginkirjasto
22. Koizumi, Yakumo (Lafcadio Hearn) (1850-1904)
23. Komatsu, Sakyo
24. Mishima, Yukio
    • Yukio Mishima Page, A
25. Miyazawa, Kenji
    • Wonderland
26. Oe, Kenzaburo (1935- )
    • Oe Kenzaburo Unofficial Fan Club
27. Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (100 Poems by 100 Poets)
28. Tanizaki, Junchiro (1886-1965)
    • Tanizaki Junichiro Memorial Museum of Literature, Ashiya (Japanese)
    • Books and Writers
    • encyclopedia.com
29. Yoshimoto, Banana
    • Kitchen
    • Mo's Bananamania Page

Language

1. Dialects
   • Dialect List in Japan (tutkie.tut.ac.jp)
   • Kansai-ben
2. Dictionaries
   • Jeffrey's Kanji Lookup
   • Kanji of the Day
3. Institutes
   • European Institute of Japanese Studies
   • Griffith University
   • Japanese-English Bilingual Home Page
   • Japanese Language and Information Page
   • Japanese Online
   • Japanese Page (Appalachian State Univ.)
   • Japanese Tutor
   • JP NET (MIT)
   • National Language Research Institute, The
   • Study of Japanese Language and Culture (Nagoya University, Japan)
4. InterCommunications
5. Japan Electronic Dictionary Research Institute
6. Japanese Accents
7. Japanese Language (Naohiro Takizawa, Nagoya University)
8. Japanese Language, The (MIT)
9. Japanese-Online
10. Japanese Text Initiative (University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library)
11. Jim Breen's Japanese Page
12. KanjiDrill program for X11R5 (Java Version)
13. Ken Butler's Japanese Language Learning Web
14. Learn to read Japanese...
15. Linguistics and Language-Related WWW Home Pages in Japan
16. National Language Research Institute, The
17. Nihongo (ALC)
18. Textcheck
19. Usenet--sci.lang.japan

Miscellany

1. British Council, The
2. City Net Japan
3. eol-japan: The latest job market in Japan for International Professionals.
4. Guide to Japanese Computing
5. Japan for Dummies - a humorous description of everyday life in Japan.
6. Japan United States Friendship Commission and Duke
7. Japanese Fonts
8. Japanese Prime Minister's Official Residence, The
9. Japanese Gifts and Souvenirs
10. Lonely Planet, Japan
11. My Japan - a series of episodes by an Australian living in Japan.
12. 1998 Guide to Jobs in Japan (James C. Gibbs)
13. O-Hayo Sensei, The Newsletter of English Teaching Jobs in Japan
14. Peter's Japan Page (postcards from 1900 - 1950)
15. Rob's Japan FAQ: Know Before You Go
16. SOBRE JAPON... (Spanish)
17. Splendors of Meiji - Treasures of Imperial Japan
18. Welcome to JET AA UK