Selected websites

Book information

• NACSIS-Webcat union catalogue database from university libraries
• Webcat Plus Japanese book information, contents etc.
• Books.or.jp search engine for Japanese books
• Kinokuniya Shoten bookshop
• Maruzen bookshop
• Junkudo bookshop
• BK1 online bookshop
• Amazon.co.jp online bookshop

Online journals, theses, books etc

• CiNii citation information by NII
• Doctoral dissertation database (by The University of Tokyo)
• Japanese doctoral dissertation database (collected by Nagoya University)
• Koseisha database journals, who’s who in Japan
• Dnavi database navigation service by National Diet Library, Japan
• ARIADNE resources for Arts and Humanities
• Web database collection Academic Resource Guide
• Aozora collection electronic library

Newspapers and television

• Asahi shinbun
• Nihon keizai shinbun
• Mainichi shinbun
• Yomiuri shinbun
• Sankei shinbun
• The Japan Times
• The Japan news.net
• Japan Links directory of useful websites
• NHK

for library holdings of newspapers, see Japan

Libraries, archives, directories etc

• NDL National Diet Library, Japan
• JCROSS Japanese libraries multi-search
• National Archives of Japan
• National Institutes of Japanese Literature (Kokubunken)
• National Museum of Japanese History (Rekihaku)
• Institute of Developing Economics
• United Nations Information Center, Tokyo
• ReaD directory database of research and development activities

Dictionaries

• Eijiro on the web English-Japanese, Japanese-English dictionary
• Goo dictionary English-Japanese, Japanese-English, Japanese-Japanese, new word dictionary
• Yahoo! Dictionary Synonyms, Japanese-Japanese, English-Japanese, Japanese-English dictionary
• Wikipedia

Search engines

• Yahoo
• Google
• Goo
• MSN Japan

Teaching Japanese

• Zenyoukyou
• The Japan Foundation Japanese language institute, Urawa
• Japan Seminar House
• Japanese language teachers association in Victoria

Travelling in Japan

• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
• Japan Tourism Association
• 5 City Harbour
• WebJapan gateway for all Japanese information
• Yubin Homepage Japanese post code search
• Mapion Japanese maps
• Yahoo Japan weather
• Accommodation, Ryokan information
• Japanese special local foods
• Japanese Train lunch

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