East Asian Guides: Japan

Access to the national library catalog in both Japanese and English.

Current news in English from Asahi Shimbun.

Specializes in Japanese public policy information, providing current source materials in economics, commerce and industry, law, politics, the environment, and social conditions.

Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan; global Japan Studies events calendar; grants; etc.

Library of Congress Federal Research Division's detailed profile.

Monash University scholar's selected links.

Portal for information on environment, travel, IT, government, etc.; further links.

Japanese government Statistics Bureau.

Papers covering Japan in comparative perspective and international issues that affect Japan.

Collection of more than 2 million items of Japanese history, literature and reference books

Index to periodical articles published in Japanese, including those in former Japanese colonies, and including local periodicals not present in many other indexes. Coverage is from 1868 onwards.