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  • OneWorld Radio
    
    
• Library of Congress "Portals to the World"

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• AsianInfo.org -- Japan
  
  
• Adminet -- Japan
  
  
• Japan -- NationMaster.com
  
  
• language
  • Ainu language -- Wikipedia
  • Ainu Dictionaries
  • Ainu-English Word List -- RaccoonBend.com
  • Literatures and Materials of Ainu Language: For Learners -- Suzuko Tamura
    
    
• food
  • eLook.org > Asian >
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    • Japanese
  • Ainu cuisine -- Wikipedia

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• religion
  • Internet Sacred Text Archive
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• holidays
  • Public Holidays in Japan -- Wikipedia
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• national anthem
  • national-anthems.net / with lyrics
  • thenationalanthems.com
    
    
• cities
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  • Asian Historical Architecture -- Japan
  • Vernacular Architecture of the World: Great Buildings Online > Architecture of Asia -- Kevin Matthews and Artifice, Inc.
    
    

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• other WebSites
  • Famous Ainu People
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  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Observer -- Japan
  • UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences
  • Global Voices Online -- Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School
  • Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) -- United Nations
  • H-Net Discussion Networks -- Humanities and Social Sciences ONLINE
    • H-Gender-MidEast -- Gender in the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Western Asia, Iran, and the Mediterranean.
  • UNESCO WebWorld Portals >> Observatory Portal on the Information Society >> Regions >> [International] >> Asia and Pacific >> Japan
  • Migration Information Source -- Migration Policy Institute
    • Japan
  • The Ainu Museum
  • AINU -- Spirit of a Northern People -- Smithsonain Natural Museum of History
  • Traditional Ainu Fishing Techniques -- Native Planet
  • Ainu Articles -- Alaska Native Knowledge Network
  • Articles about Ainu people from NATIVE-L on NativeNet
  • Ainu -- Zenegata
  • Island of the Spirits -- NOVA
    • Origins of the Ainu
    • Ainu Legends
    • Find Your Way
    • Resources
  • Collection from the Ainu and the Amur area -- Benedek Baráthosi Balogh (1870-1945)
  • Sister Marie Inez Hilger
    
    
• PowerPoint Slides
  
  
• Japanese Historical Maps from the East Asian Library at UC Berkeley