enlarged map
from The World Factbook

Lonely Planet Map

from AsianInfo.org
~ Map Navigator
~ detailed map of Japan

Bear Legend

• UMD Library Catalogue
  • JSTORE
    
    
• Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR)
  
  
• country profiles
  • Ainu people -- Wikipedia
  • Japan -- CIA World Factbook
  • Japan -- U.S. Department of State
  • Japan -- CountryWatch
  • Japan -- Lonely Planet
  • Japan -- BBC News
  • Japan -- NationMaster.com
    
    
• Japan's U.S. Embassy
• U.S. Embassy in Japan
  
  
• U.S. International Information Programs: Europe and Eurasia -- U.S. policy and issues related to Europe and Eurasia

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• BBC News timeline
  
  
• CNT news timeline
  
  
• CountryReports.org
  
  
• economist.com
  
  
• GlobalEDGE: International Resource Desk
  
  
• The Library of Congress
  • Portals to the World
  • Country Studies > Japan > Ainu
    
    
• newspapers and networks
  • Ainu Times
  • BBC News headlines from Asia-Pacific
    • The Media in Japan
  • BBC World Service - Japanese language service
  • AllYouCanRead.com
  • The New York Times Knowledge Network
  • The Internet Public Library > Newspapers > Asia > Japan
  • OnlineNewspapers.com
  • topix.net » Front Page » World News» » Asia » Japan
    
    
• radio
  • 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 >
    • Asian
    • Japan
    • Japanese
  • Ainu cuisine -- Wikipedia
  • Japan’s unknown indigenous cuisine -- BBCtravel (11 August 2020)
    

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

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• Asian Historical Architecture
  
  
• other WebSites
  • Famous Ainu People
  • Japan Society
    • "Journey Through Japan"
    • sign up for free eNewsletters
  • 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
  • Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People -- The Field Book Project, Smthsonian National Museum of Natural History
  • Dream weavers: the indigenous Ainu people of Japan – in pictures -- The Guardian (30 April 2019)
    
  • Japan’s forgotten indigenous people -- BBCtravel (20 May 2020)
    
  • Japan’s unknown indigenous cuisine -- BBCtravel (11 August 2020)
    
    
• PowerPoint Slides
  
  
• Japanese Historical Maps from the East Asian Library at UC Berkeley