Japan-related WWW-pages and FTP-sites
This page is eternally under construction.
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Many of the pages are in Japanese (but will often lead you to
an English page). To display Japanese characters correctly you
need a Japanese patch on your browser and a Japanese Front
End Processor on your computer.
Japan-related WWW-pages
- Yahoo
- Regional Information: Countries: Japan
- The mother of all indices
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- Japanese Information
(NTT Japan)
- Clickable map with many of the Web-sites in Japan; go
back up one level for more
general information
- University
of Arizona JapanCS Project
- Japanese scientific and technical information related to
computing and computer science. Connections to sites in
Japan and a full archive of the Kahaner reports on
scientific happenings in Japan
- THE
FOREST
- The Information Access
Center
- Several on-line magazines and links to government
information services and Japanese business societies
- JPNews
- Calling themselves the "Asian Web Site
Journal," they promise to list "All news that's
fit to link" but right now they are still
constructing their page, so the locations are only
listed, not yet linked
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- Computing Japan
- Home page of Computing Japan, Japan's only English
magazine on information technology and computer markets
- Impress WWW Server
(in Japanese)
- Home page of the publishers of the Japanese Internet
Magazine
- Japan
Window
- By Stanford University, covers technology, government,
business, travel & living, and "Just for
Kids"
- Shima
Media Network
- A project started by the former president of NHK (a
Japanese TV station): news about Japan and links to other
information-oriented sites
- sci.lang.japan
Frequently Asked Questions - Software for Japanese
Information Processing
- Reference and starting point for search of text
processing materials on the Web; good place for material
on localizing and programming for the Japanese market
- The Japan Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) Home Page
- Information about current academic projects and links to
technical projects at other institutions; downloading of
papers via WAIS is available
- Japan Technology
Program
- United States Department of Commerce, Technology
Administration
- Japanese Scientific and
Technical Information
- United States Department of Commerce, National Technical
Information Service (NTIS); the agency of the U.S.
Department of Commerce that gathers and markets
scientific, technical, and business-related information (ftp-site
is listed below)
- Japanese Technology
Evaluation Center
- International Technology Research Institute, publishes
the JTEC and WTEC reports (ftp-site is listed
below)
- Japan Information
Access Project
- Independent, nonprofit U.S. research center that supplies
practical information to executives, scientists,
engineers, educators, policymakers, journalists, etc.;
check out their index page one level above this
link
- AsahiNET
- Maintained by the Asahi Shimbun; includes a searchable
database of fj ("from Japan") UseNet news,
pages with haiku, and a number of links
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- Cabinet
- Supreme Court
- Board of Audit
- Prime Minister's
Office
- Economic Planning
Agency (EPA)
- Science and
Technology Agency (STA)
- Fair Trade Commission
- National Public Safety Commission
- National Police Agency
- Environmental Disputes Coordination Commission
- Imperial Household Agency
- Management and Coordination Agency
- Hokkaido Development Agency
- Okinawa Development Agency
- Defense Agency
- Defense Facilities Administration Agency
- Environment Agency
- National Land Agency
- Ministry of Posts and
Telecommunications
- The MPT is responsible for setting Japan's
telecommunications policy; contains the MPT Newsletter in
English
- Ministry
of Foreign Affairs
-
- Ministry of Finance
- National Tax Administration Agency
- Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
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- Ministry of Construction
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- Ministry of Education
- Agency for Cultural Affairs
- Ministry of Justice
- Ministry of Labor
- Ministry of Transport
- Ministry of Health and Welfare
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- Ministry of Home Affairs
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More listings are under Science & Technology below.
- Economic Planning Agency
(EPA)
- Science and Technology
Agency (STA)
- Japan External Trade
Organization (JETRO)
- Information on Japan's international trade: procurement
postings, statistics on Japanese trade, articles on
Japanese business practices
- The Institute of
Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)
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- National Space
Development Agency of Japan (NASDA)
- Japan Marine Science
and Technology Center (JAMSTEC)
- National
Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS)
- Japan Oceanographic Data
Center (JODC)
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- National Laboratory for High
Energy Physics (KEK)
- The Institute
of Statistical Mathematics
- National
Museum of Japanese History (REKIHAKU)
- Japan Atomic
Energy Research Institute (JAERI)
- National Research
Institute for Metals (NRIM)
- National Cancer Center
-
- Animal Genome
Database Center
- ICOT Project
(Institute for New Computer Technology)
- World Computing Project
- Radiation Effects
Research Foundation (RERF)
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- Tokyo Teleport
- CITY
of YOKOHAMA
- Wakayama
Industrial Technology Center
- Kumamoto
Prefecture
- Industrial Research
Center of Shiga Prefecture
- Technology Center
of Nagasaki
- Nagasaki
Prefecture
- The Peace Wave '95 -- in commemoration of the dropping of
the atomic bomb 1945
- Radiation Effects
Research Foundation
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- Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology, Hokuriku
- Aizu University
- Chiba
University
- Fujioka Junior
College of Technology
- Fukuoka Institute of
Technology
- Gunma University
- Hachinohe Institute
of Technology
- Hiroshima
Denki Institute of Technology
- Hiroshima
Institute of Technology
- Hokkaido University
- Hyogo
University
- Japan Women's University
- Keio University
- Keio University
Science and Technology
- Kobe University
- Kochi University
- Kogakuin University
- Koka Women's College
- Kumamoto
University
- Kurume Institute of
Technology
- Kyoto Sangyo
University
- Kyoto Institute of
Technology
- Kyoto University
- Kyushu Institute of
Technology
- Kyushu Sangyo
University
- Kyushu Tokai
University
- Kyushu University
- Matsuyama
University
- Meiji University
- Meisei University
- Mie University
- Miyazaki
University
- Nagano University
- Nagoya Institute of
Technology
- Nagoya University
- Nara Institute of
Science and Technology (NAIST)
- National
University of Information and Library Sciences
- Oita University
of Art (Oita PJC)
- Okayama Prefectural
University
- Osaka Medical
College
- Osaka University
- Osaka
University of Education
- Saga University
- Saitama
University
- Science University of
Tokyo
- Shiga
Polytechnic College
- Soka University
- Tohoku University
- Tokai University
Computing Center
- Tokushima University
- Tokyo Institute of
Technology
- Toyohashi University of
Technology
- Tokyo University
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- University of
Electro-Communications
- Utsunomiya
University
- Wakayama
University
- Inter-University Research Institutes
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- Japan External Trade
Organization (JETRO)
- Information on Japan's international trade: procurement
postings, statistics on Japanese trade, articles on
Japanese business practices
- Index
of /~felsing/jstuff/
- Information in English on various markets and Japanese
business in "biz.html";
also links to organizations and academic papers
- American
Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan
- British
Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan
- Canadian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan
- Nomura Research Institute
- Nikkei Business
Publications
- Mitsui Real
Estate
- Nikko Securities
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- InfoAsia
- A subsidiary of Urban Connections, Inc. in Tokyo: Market
entry, business information, translation, public
relations, publishing, consulting services and much more
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- The Japan
Information Center of Science and Technology
- The JICST is a quasi-governmental organization under the
Science and Technology Agency; information on individual
researchers, outlines of R&D activities in government
labs, translations of major S&T-related reports from
Japanese government advisory councils; home page leads to
online directories of information on Japan
- Agency of Industrial Science and Technology
- Information about research in laboratories of the AIST of
the Ministry of International Trade and Industry
- Communications
Research Laboratory, MPT
- Inter-Ministry
Research Information Network
- The IMNet of the Science and Technology Agency (STA)
interconnects 80 organizations, including national
research laboratories and semi-government research
organizations under the supervision of 11 ministries and
agencies
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- The
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. FTP Archive
- Good site for Japanese text processing, latest versions
of dictionaries and Japanese text processing tools for
Amiga, Mac, DOS, OS/2, Unix, VMS, Windows
- Monash
University
- Text editing software, Japanese font files, Tale of Genji
(in Japanese), Japanese constitution (in Japanese)
- Japanese
Fonts
- Japanese fonts for X-WINDOWS. Read the README file first.
- University
of Washington Technical Japanese Program
- Japan-related software and information; every
subdirectory under /pub/Japanese has a README file,
making it a good starting point to find Japan-related
material like software for handling Japanese, articles
about US-Japan relations, Japanese language study aids
- University of
Tokyo
- Japanese software, often with English documentation
- FTP
Archives of The Consortium for Lexical Research
- Several dictionaries and editors and also good selection
of Japanese fonts, the latter in
/CLR/multiling/japanese/fonts
- Tohoku University
- up-to-date versions of Japanese software
- Japanese Scientific and
Technical Information
- A site of the United States Department of Commerce,
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
- Japanese Technology Evaluation
Center
- by the International Technology Research Institute; JTEC
and WTEC reports are available in the subdirectory
/JTEC_WTEC
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