Exchange student experiences in Japan include YFU (scholarships), AFS and through 4-H.

School life in Japanese high school & photo essay winners

Learn Japanese language with sensei-l bookmarks, nihongoweb.com, the TJF newsletter features, or Mangajin

Overview to Japan subjects from the Encyclopedia of Japan (30 day free trial) or try the search engine www.goo.ne.jp

Newspapers (in English) include Asahi, Daily Yomiuri, Mainichi, and The Japan Times. More generally, Japanese News in English. Topical photo essays. Japanese video (world) news essays.

Journals (in English) include Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (quarterly), Japan Echo (bimonthly), Japanese Journal Info (table-of-contents of current Japanese journals), Social Science Japan (Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo Tokyo). Japan Focus is a weekly email digest with topical features. Nipponia is a quarterly about culture and society.

Arts & Crafts:
Kite Museum (Tokyo's nihonbashi neighborhood).
Origami Museum (in Japanese, Ishikawa Prefecture)
Wajima - The most famous Japanese traditional lacquerware.

History & Life:
A-Bomb Museum - (Hiroshima) Take the virtual tour.
Ainu Life and Culture Museum (in Japanese). See also Ainu exhibition at Minpaku (National Museum of Ethnology).
Japan shown at the National Museum of Ethnology near Osaka.
Kyoto National Museum - (Kyoto) contains over 10,000 images from its collection.
Meiji-mura - open-air museum of buildings of the Meiji period (1868-1912).
Nagasaki oldentimes in image & map.
National Museum of Japanese History (Kokuritsu Rekishi Minzoku Hakubutsukan or rekihaku)
Tottori Prefectural Museum (in Japanese)

Culture:
Tokugawa Art Museum - (Nagoya) The collection of this private museum includes armor, ceramics, and paintings from the 17th-19th centuries.
Oni Exchange Museum - (Kyoto Prefecture) dedicated to the Japanese Oni (demon figure).
Woodblock Prints - (Matsumoto city), this museum has an online collection of Ukiyo-e woodblockprints.

Online Museums - outside of Japan

Asian Art at the Smithsonian Institution - (Washington, D.C.) Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian.

Morikami Museum - (Delray Beach, Florida) Japanese style gardens, nature trails, sparkling lakes and ponds teeming with koi carp and turtles, waterfalls, and a collection of rare bonsai miniature trees.

Language Programs offered through the CIC

The Committee for Institutional Cooperation (CIC) offers programs for students and faculty members in the 12 cooperating universities.

General Information on Japan

National Resource Centers with Japan-related events, resources, and expertise (Title VI federally funded).

Cornell University, East Asia Program
Duke University, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
Harvard University, Asia Center
Michigan State University, Asian Studies Center
Ohio State University, East Asian Studies Center
Stanford University, East Asia National Resource Center
University of California-Berkeley, Center for Japanese Studies
University of California, San Diego, Council on East Asian Studies
University of Chicago, Center for East Asian Studies
University of Hawaii, East Asia Council - Japan
University of Iowa, Center for Asian Pacific Studies
University of Kansas, Center for East Asian Studies
University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies
University of Pennsylvania, Center of East Asian Studies
University of Pittsburgh, Asian Studies Program - Japan
University of Southern California + UCLA E. Asian Studies
University of California, Los Angeles - jointly (above)

Chinese and Japanese Art History WWW Virtual Library - This site provides information on symposia, conferences, grants and other items of interest to graduate students ofChinese and Japanese art history.

CJN Online - Japanese link page in English, including links to government agencies, entertainment websites, and various online museums.

Digital Asia Library - The Digital Asia Library provides a searchable catalog through which researchers, educators, and students have quick and easy access to high quality Web resources originating in Asia selected and cataloged by area library specialists. The catalog includes freely available Web resources for research and study of modern East, South, and Southeast Asia on a broad range of topics in the social sciences.

East Asian History Sourcebook - A comprehensive collection of links and documents to aid scholars interested in East Asian (most of the resources relate to Japan or China).

Foreign Press Center Japan - A private, non-profit foundation that supports the foreign press in Japan.

Industrial Bank of Japan Research and Links - Research on and links to English language resources on Japanese finance, economy, politics and law. Be aware this is a corporate site.

International University of Japan - This site offers general advice of interest for travel in Japan.

Japan Business Center - A business-related source with a number of features including a newsletter, advice column, and all sorts of information on setting up a business in Japan.

Japan Center for Asian Historical Records - The Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR), an institution of the National Archives of Japan, has the mission of providing people all over the world with the access through the Internet to materials from collections kept by various ministries and agencies of the Japanese Government on the modern history of relations between Japan and various other countries, primarily neighboring Asian countries

Japanese Information on Books - This service allows you to search for Japanese books in print using romaji (Latin alphabet) as input. The search results are displayed with image files, so you do not need a Japanese font installed on your computer.

Japan Financials - Administered by Eagle Enterprises, Ltd. supplies translations & originals of official financial statements for all Tokyo Stock Exchange and major OTC firms. This information can, they claim be downloaded directly into Excel.

Japan Information Network - This site provides a multitude of information on Japan, including trends, history, geography, and much more.

JapanMap - This site provides maps of Japan and some of the train lines (mostly in Japanese).

Japan National Tourist Organization - All about Japan, the Japanese, travel, Tokyo, Kyoto, holidays, hotels and much more.

Japanese Studies Research Resources - A collection of research tools and bibliography at Duke University.

The Japanese Text Initiative - Part of the online library of the Electronic Text Center Library, University of Virginia. Has as its goal to put online all texts in Thomas Rimer's Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature, as well as other important titles from classical Japanese literature. Currently includes the Kokinshu, Ise Monogatari, Hojoki Noh plays, Sarashin Nikki, the Manyoushu, works by Saikaku, Basho and many others. Can be searched in Japanese or English.

J-Guide to Japan - The J-Guide to Japan is a topically arranged directory of Internet-based Japan information resources. History, culture, education, health and medicine, and other topics are featured.

JPOLL - The Japan Public Opinion Location Library. Contains a searchable archive of public opinion data from Japan.

Kinema Club - A resource on Japanese film.

Okinawa Prefecture Homepage - Homepage of Okinawa Prefecture.

Online Bibliography of Asian Studies - Referencing western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia. Only those with a U of M network connection are granted access to use this resource