Understanding Global Cultures

Maps

cultures

Ainu

UMD Library Catalogue

JSTORE

Duluth Sister City: Isumi City

Isumi City (formerly Ohara)
Sister Cities International

The Library of Congress

Global Gateway > Portals to the World > Japan

(Digital) Asia Library -- Portal to Asian Internet Research (PAIR)

country profiles

Japan -- CIA World Factbook
Japan -- U.S. Department of State
Japan -- Lonely Planet
Japan -- BBC News
Japan -- NationMaster.com
Japan -- Library of Congress Country Studies
Japan -- Wikipedia
Japan -- CountryReports.org

Region > Asia > Northeast Asia > Japan -- Council on Foreign Relations

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general information
- Adminet > World > Asia > Japan
- JGuide -- Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources
timelines
- BBC News timelines > Japan
- World News Atlas > Europe> East Asia > Japan
holidays
- Public Holidays in Japan -- Wikipedia
- Japan -- Q++ Studio
travel
- Japan National Tourist Organization
- Japan Travel Guide

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national anthem
- Wikipedia > National anthem > List of national anthem > Japan > Kimi Ga Yo ("May 1,000 Years of Happy Reign Be Yours")
- national-anthems.net > Asia > Japan
newspapers / newsnetworks specific to Japan and its environs
- BBC News headlines from Asia-Pacific
  - The Media in Japan
- BBC World Service - Japanese language service
- AllYouCanRead.com > Newspapers > Asia > Japan
- The Internet Public Library > Newspapers > Asia > Japan
- OnlineNewspapers.com > Japan
- economist.com > countries > Japan
- GlobalEDGE: International Resource Desk > Country Insights > Asia/Middle East > Japan
- topix.net » Front Page » World News » Asia » Japan

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newspapers / newsnetworks of regional and Asian scope
radio
- OneWorld Radio
- The World -- BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH Boston

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government resources

The Embassy of Japan in the United States

The Embassy of the United States in Tokyo, Japan
U.S. International Information Programs: East Asia and the Pacific -- U.S. policy and issues focusing on the East Asia-Pacific region

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AsianInfo.org -- Japan
language
- Your Name in Japanese (Hiragana/Katakana) -- David Harris
- Romantization of Japanese -- Wikipedia
- Your Name in Japanese -- Philip Ronan
food
- eLook.org > Asian >
  - Asian
  - Japan
  - Japanese
- Japanese cuisine -- Wikipedia
  - Cookbook:Cuisine of Japan
- Saveur: Savor a World of Authentic Cuisine > Japanese
- World Food Habits: Bibliography -- Robert Dirks
- Japan -- Anthropology of Food-Food Science
- World Hearth Circle of International Cooking > Japanese
- "Putter Fish" -- National Geographic
- Japan -- Noamichi Ishige, Cambridge World HIstory of Food
- Japan -- Epicurious.com

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religion
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
  - Shinto
- Sacred Destinations > Japan -- Holly Hayes
the arts

architecture

Asian Historical Architecture > Japan
Vernacular Architecture of the World: Great Buildings Online > Architecture of Asia > Japan -- Kevin Matthews and Artifice, Inc.
Kyoto
- Tokyo

cities and towns

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video
books
- Benedict, Ruth. 1946. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. NY: Houghton Mifflin

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WebSites
- Famous Japanese People
- Lists of Japanese people -- Wikipedia
- Global Performing Arts Consortium
- Japan Society
  - "Journey Through Japan"
  - sign up for free eNewsletters
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Observer -- Japan
- Kanji Alive [beginning and intermediate-level Japanese language] -- The University of Chicago
- UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences
- World Myths & Legends in Art: Japan -- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- 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
- Nature of the Beast: Animals in Japanese Paintings & Prints -- The Pacific Asia Museum
- Migration Information Source -- Migration Policy Institute
  - Japan
- Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar -- Library of Congress: AMERICAN MEMORY
- Japan's Pop Power -- American RadioWorks
- culture-bound syndromes
  - shinkeishitsu
- Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia
- Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures -- National Diet Library of Japan
- Perry Visits Japan -- Susan Smulyan

Images
- Japanese Old Photographs of the Bakumatsu-Meiji Periods -- Nagasaki University Library Collection
- PowerPoint Slides

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