In this session, we will sample some of the most useful web resources for Japanese Studies from a more comprehensive list of related webpages Beth Katzoff has compiled, including the website of the National Diet Library and its digital resources. Some themes we will highlight are e-texts and full text databases, Japanese government-supported websites, maps and GIS data, museums and image databases, newspapers, statistical data, online dictionaries, and portals to web resources.

*** For the entire list of the recommended websites for the Japanese Studies Beth has put together, please click here.

• Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html
  
• Rikai: http://www.rikai.com
• National Diet Library: http://www.ndl.go.jp
  • Useful Thematic Links - Newspapers: http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/data/theme/theme_bunrui_13.html
  • Digital Projects #1 - Kindai Dijitaru Library: http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/index.html
  • Digital Projects #2 - Rare Books Image Database: http://www3.ndl.go.jp/rm/index.html
  • Proceedings of Meetings of the National Diet: http://kokkai.ndl.go.jp/
  • NDL Gallery http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/gallery/index.html (This link will get you to Incunabula Exhibition, Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures, Japanese Ex-Libris Stamps, Birth of the Constitution of Japan, the Japanese Calendar, Rare Books Image Database and more)
• Japan Studies Resources - Duke University East Asian Collection, K. Troost http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/japanesestudies.html/
• Japan Portals to the World, The Library of Congress, Asian Division http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/asian/japan/japan.html
• Guides to Japanese Databases at Ask an East Asian Studies Librarian http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/easian/askeasl/askEASLguides.html
• Japanese Text Initiative http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/
• The National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) http://www.nijl.ac.jp/databases/databases.htm
• Blue Sky (Aozora) http://www.aozora.gr.jp/
• Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR) http://www.jacar.go.jp/index_e.htm
• E-gov http://www.e-gov.go.jp/
• Geographical Survey Institute http://www.gsi.go.jp/ENGLISH/index.html
• MapFan Web http://www.mapfan.com/mfwtop.html
• Portal Site of Statistical Data in Japan http://portal.stat.go.jp/PubStat/topE.html