EAST ASIA LINKS

A categorized selection of English-language East Asia websites:

Japan

METASITES:

Japan Reference
Japanese Statistics Bureau
National Diet Library Gallery
Web Japan

EMBASSIES/GOVERNMENT:

Japanese Embassy, Washington DC
Consulate-General of Japan in New York
Consulate General of Japan in Boston
Consulate General of Japan in Boston School Visit Program
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan) 

BY & FOR KIDS:

Kids Web Japan

READ ONLINE:

Asahi Newspaper
Daily Yomiuri Online
Japan Focus: An Asia Pacific E-Journal
Japan Times
Mainichi Daily News
Nippon
Nipponia

TRAVEL:

Japan Atlas (Japan Information Network)
Japan National Tourist Organization
Tokyo Food Page

ARTS & CULTURE:

Ainu Museum
At Home in Japan - what no one tells you
Digital Gallery of World Picture Books
Edo Castle
Heiji Scroll
Hiroshima Archive
Japan Artists Information Directory (JAID)
Japan Costume Museum
Japan Thru Young Eyes
Japan for the Uninvited
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Woodblock Prints in the Ukiyo-e style
Nagoya TV Ukiyo-e Museum
National Museum of Japanese History
Otogi Zoshi (medieval Japanese literature)
Sumo
Tokyo in Photographs (Meiji and Taisho Era Photographs)

CURRICULUM & INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT:

Cross Currents
Recommended Resources on Japan (Columbia University)
Japan Foundation
Asia Policy Point
Japan Society (Boston)
Japan Society (NY)
About Japan: A Teacher's Resource
Keizai Koho Center
Life in the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints and the Rise of the Merchant Class in Edo Period Japan (NEH's EDSITEment!)
Program for Teaching East Asia (University of Colorado Boulder)
Teachnology--Japan Lesson Plans
Texts and Contexts: Teaching Japan through Children's Literature (University of Colorado Boulder)
United States-Japan Foundation 
Web Japan