Japan-Related Links

Government: Cabinet

• Cabinet Office
  http://www.cao.go.jp/index-e.html
• Ministry of Finance
  http://www.mof.go.jp/english/index.htm
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  http://www.mofa.go.jp/
• Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
  http://www.meti.go.jp/english/index.html
• Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT)
  http://www.mext.go.jp/english/
• Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications
  http://www.soumu.go.jp/english/
• Ministry of Justice
  http://www.moj.go.jp/ENGLISH/preface.html

Government: Diet

• House of Representatives
  http://www.shugiin.go.jp/itdb_main.nsf/html/index_e.htm
• House of Councillors
  http://www.sangiin.go.jp/eng/index.htm
• National Diet Library
  http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/

National Newspapers

• Asahi Shimbun
  http://www.asahi.com/english/english.html
• Mainichi Daily News
  http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/
• Yomiuri Shimbun
  http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index.htm
• Nihon Keizai Shimbun
  http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/
• Sankei Shimbun
  http://www.sankei.jp.msn.com/
• The Japan Times
  http://www.japantimes.co.jp/

Television/Radio

• Nihon Hoso Kyokai (NHK)
  http://www.nhk.or.jp/index-e.html
• TBS
  http://www.tbs.co.jp/index.html

Selected Research/Educational Sites

• UC Education Abroad Program: Japan
  http://eap.ucop.edu/OurPrograms/japan/Pages/default.aspx
• Asian Studies Virtual WWW Library
  http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
• The Association of Teachers of Japanese
  http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj/
• Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
  http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs/
• Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
  http://ieas.berkeley.edu/
• International and Area Studies, UC Berkeley
  http://ias.berkeley.edu/
• Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University
  http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CEAS/
• Center for the Pacific Rim, University of San Francisco
  http://www.pacificrim.usfca.edu/
• Japanese Public Opinion Location Library (Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut)
  http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/JPOLL/home.html (Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut)
• The Japan Society of Northern California
  http://www.usajapan.org/
• Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources
  http://jguide.stanford.edu/
• The Foreign Press Center/Japan
  http://fpcj.jp/?ml_lang=en
• The Foreign Press Center/Japan - Brief site
  http://fpcj.jp/modules/news8/index.php?storytopic=1
• The Foreign Press Center/Japan - Facts and Figures of Japan
  http://fpcj.jp:80/modules/news5/index.php?page=article&storyid=3
• Asia Society
  http://www.asiasociety.org/
• Japan Foundation Language Center in LA
  http://www.jflalc.org
• Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
  http://www.stanford.edu/dept/IUC/
• The Pan Pacific Foundation
  http://www.ppf.gr.jp/eg/

Funding Organizations

• International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/welcome_e.htm
• The Japan Foundation
  http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/index.html
• The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership
  http://www.cgp.org/
• Embassy of Japan
  http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/index.htm
• Japan-US Friendship Commission
  http://www.jusfc.gov/commissn/commissn.html
• United States-Japan Foundation
  http://www.us-jf.org/
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (San Francisco Office)
  http://www.jspsusa-sf.org/

General Interest

• Culture For Kids: Guide To Japanese Traditions
  http://www.card1616.com/culture-for-kids-guide-to-japanese-traditions.html
• Japanese New Year
  http://www.gopromocodes.com/new-years-traditions