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Japan & Tokyo Directory : Society and Culture
| Keyhole Tombs http://www.ozlab.osakac.ac.jp/KOFUN_E/ |
| Description: Article on the kofun, or ancient burial mounds in Japan, with background information, history, timeline, types and characteristics. |
| Journey to Japan http://www.rgetter.com/japan/ |
| Description: Ric Getter's personal memoir of a two-week trip to Japan, his wife's homeland. |
| Piedmont Choirs - Osaka Japan 2001 http://www.piedmontchoirs.org/tour_jpn/journal1.html |
| Description: Piedmont Choirs represent California at the 2001 International Junior Chorus Festival. |
| Complicit Exoticism: Japan and its Other http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/8.2/Iwabuchi.html |
| Description: Examines how Japanese view eachother and how westerners have viewed Japan through the 20th century. |
| The Folktales in Fukushima http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/list_e/minwa_le.html |
| Description: Three folktales from Fukushima Prefecture in Japan. |
| Discerning Cultural Questions http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/alumni/dm7/discern_txt.html |
| Description: Article on Duke anthropologist who did research on women's roles in Japan. |
| The Japanese Tea Ceremony (Chaji) http://www.holymtn.com/tea/Japanesetea.htm |
| Description: Detailed information. |
| Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) http://www.adrc.or.jp/ |
| Description: Facilitates exchange of disaster reduction experts from each country and concerned bodies, accumulates and provides disaster reduction information, and carries out research into multinational disaster reduction cooperation. |
| Architecture http://web-japan.org/webjapan/search/Culture_Architecture_00.html |
| Description: Examines architecture in Japan influenced by foreign cultures as well as climate; landscape and examples of both traditional and modern architecture including temples, shrines, castles and bridges. |
| Owning a Car in Japan http://en.esllab.jp/owing/ |
| Description: Detailed procedures on how to register a car in Japan. |
| The Sushi Chronicles http://www.international-gourmet.net/sushi/ |
| Description: History, etiquette, and types of sushi. |
| Advice on Learning Zen in Japan http://www.zenki.com/AboutlearningZeninJapan.htm |
| Description: Lists some monasteries open to Westerners, and universities for academic study. |
| My Sushi Chef http://www.my-sushi-chef.com/ |
| Description: Explanation of terminology and ingredients. |
| Yamato Calvary Chapel http://210.157.13.53/ |
| Description: Located in Yamato-city, Kanagawa. With live internet broadcasts, and guide to services. |
| Jews and Pre-war Japan http://www.jiyuu-shikan.org/e/frontlines2.html |
| Description: Konoe Fumimaro administration's policy declaration towards Jews issued December 6th, 1938. Includes text of policy translated to English, and photograph of original Japanese text. |
| Trinity http://www.kilroywashere.org/004-Pages/Trinity/Trinity.html |
| Description: What it looks like today, what it looked like in 1945, the history of the Manhattan Project and the theory and reasons behind the bomb. |
| Kanji Names Project http://www2.gol.com/users/billp/students/kanjiname/ |
| Description: Descriptions of Japanese names in English with kanji image files, and information on kanji books |
| Scholars Devise Method to Confirm Date of Stone Tools http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010606a6.htm |
| Description: From the Japan Times, Nagatomo said he hopes the method will help verify the authenticity of controversial Paleolithic stone tools discovered in northeastern Japan. |
| BPeoples-Japan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BPeoples-Japan/ |
| Description: Prayer and praise network for Buddhists in Japan. |
| Traditional Industry (Kyo Yuzen and Kyo Komon (Silk Dyeing Methods)) http://www.pref.kyoto.jp/intro/trad/kougei/yuzen_e.html |
| Description: Brief, illustrated description of the two methods. |
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