A Tiny Page on or about Japan

Web pages on specific subjects have an odd way of being born by my hand: They almost always start life out as a simple scratch-pad of sorts for handy URLs that are of interest to me personally or relate to my computer habit...er, work. This page is no exception. Hopefully it will stay tiny....then again, maybe not!

Bookstores

• Sasuga Bookstore

Computing and language

• Jim Breen's Page, head of the EDICT project.
• A mirror of Jim Breen's nihongo archive is also available here. It contains all sorts of goodies like JWP, the Windows freeware program that allows you to type in Japanese, print vertically, etc. as well as EDICT, Jim Breen's Japanese-English dictionary.
• Jeffrey Friedl's excellent Japanese/English Dictionary - Gateway
• Ken Lunde's Home Page, author of O'Reilly's Understanding Japanese Information Processing which is the book to get if you want to know about processing CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean) data. It's successor, CJKV Information Processing, does even better.
• The sci.lang.japan FAQ.
• Ken Lunde's brand new CJK Character Set Server.
• The CJK.INF file, an on-line companion to Understanding Japanese Infomation Processing, also by Ken Lunde.
• Some Kana Sheets in postscript printer-ready format from the German-Japanese Association.
• MIT's Kanji (and Kana) Lessons which require you to use a Japanese-capable web browser for the full effect.
• Installing and running Japanese language programs on your Linux box! By the Tokyo Linux Users Group.
• Nihongo list archives.

Crafts

• VRML Origami - this site will help you create objects from paper using VRML. This very cool site requires a VRML-capable browser.

Entertainment

• Pioneer.
• Count Down TV which is the top 100 countdown of current popular music in Japan.
• Tokyo FM was Tokyo's first commercial radio station, established in 1970. Complete with music charts.
• Mid Japan, is a radio station broadcasting news in English and Japanese over Real Audio. Click on "News" to get to the RealAudio interface.
• FM Yokohama 84.7 broadcasts some of their programming via RealAudio as well.
• Impress Radio has a bunch of stations on RealAudio.

Food

• Bob and Angie's Kitchen, courtesy Osaka Gas Company, Ltd.
• The Tokyo Food Page
• Wade's Virtual Sushi Parlor

Fun Stuff

• Liliko's Junkyard
• Japanese Engrish

Gadgets of All Sorts

• All about PHS, yes, those cute little phones that everyone in Japan seems to have.

Government

• The Prime Minister of Japan's Home Page.
• The Embassy of Japan in Canada.

Idol Pages

• Many links to idol pages
• Hitoshi Doi's pages

Language

• History of Japanese Print

Literature and Poetry

• The The Shiki Internet Haiku Salon, for all those interested in learning about and writing Haiku poetry.
• For people interested in reading Japanese literature, you'll find Akira Kitauchi's archive a valuable resource (Japanese only!).
• Nihon-no-kotowaza, a page devoted to Japanese idioms and proverbs.

Live!!

• Mount Fuji Server. See what the weather's like around the mountain!
• Another Mt. Fuji View, from a southerly direction and much closer. By Shizuoka Internet
• A View of Kyoto, courtesy Taiyodo.
• A Live View of Otsu City courtesy of Hirano-Elementary School in Shiga Prefecture.
• Tomigaya's Camera into their office.
• Latera's cam page
• Outdoor cams in Japan, by TANAKA Masaki
• Find out what's new with KIWI, as well as Asahikawa, Hokkaido.
• From NTT Learning Systems, a view of tokyo and Tokyo Tower.
• Tokyo-Tower Around The Clock.
• Light on the Net project

Miscellaneous

• Experimental Yellow Pages by NTT
• Andromoo, an experiment in Media Space in Japan's Shonan Fujisawa Campus of Keio University.
• The innovative Home Page of yass_.
• Yamaken's Japanese Agriculture Home Page, which along with some other projects, has the Net Farmers Society and NAPASS, which is the experimental Nationwide Agricultural products Price Analysis Support System.
• Japan Station, an incomplete and slightly out-dated listing by subject of some URL's about Japan. Available in Frames or Non-frames version.
• Japan Open Yellowpage - some cool Home Pages in Japan.
• Nippon Telephone and Telegraph, a great resource for Japanese resources, which also makes for a good guinea pig for testing Japanese-capable browsers.

News and Information

• Radio Japan, an NHK service transmitted via shortwave radio.
• Yomiuri Shinbun
• Asahi News
• Nikkei News
• The Sapporo Journal, a quarterly newspaper in English giving very valuable information on modern Japan. Too bad it's only a quarterly publication.
• Computing Japan, a magazine (in English) focused on modern computing in Japan. Great resource!
• Last Week in Japan, a wry look at news in Japan.

Sport

• Sumo Wrestling!!

Travel

• All about Akihabara, the place to go in Tokyo for anything electronic.
• Take a virtual tour of Tokyo!!
• Ever been curious about the Tokyo Metro (Subway)? Try here!

Want to help make this page bigger? Send me a URL on something about Japan!!

Special thanks to the Prime Minister of Japan's Residence Home Page for the original background.

Last HTML revision: 7 November, 1999.