LINK PAGE

Academic Links

• http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html Hypertext links to Asian Studies WWW worldwide: Special reference to the Australian National University in Canberra where this file is maintained.
• http://www2.ice.usp.ac.jp/wklinger/wklinger.htm Enlightening links for the study of ESL in Japan, for Canadian media, cinema studies: the home page of Prof. Walter Klinger of the Univ.of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone.
• http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/　 Prof. Michael Watson of the UK (Oxford Univ.) teaches Japanese and Comparative Literature at Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama. Webmaster now of a site for Pre-modern Japanese Literature. Author of a CD-ROM from Fujitsu on the Tale of the Heike. This excellent site is best searched for sources for electronic texts in English and Japanese.
• http://www.sun.ac.jp Home page of Nagasaki Prefecture's new university, named in honour of Phillip Franz von Siebold, a doctor in the last days of the Dutch settlement on Dejima in the 1860's. The Siebold University of Nagasaki (SUN)  opened its doors in April of 1999. 県立長崎シーボルト大学
• http://jrecin.jst.go.jp/Career Information Service - Advertisements of Posts in Japanese Universities. Best guide to bilingual job listings (Japanese/English) for all major Mombusho (Ministry of Education) supported institutions in Japan. Search by most recent posting date, or by geographic region. National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS). 研究者公募情報
• http://www.aasianst.org/Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Professional organization. Largest North-American organization of Asianists, with a world-wide membership. Information on the AAS Annual Meeting schedules, employment, education, and links to other resources in Asian Studies.
• http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Japan.html Comprehensive resource links to every fact of Japanese Culture: Home page of Prof. Matsuoka Mitsuharu of Nagoya Univ. Particularly valuable for its section on literature.

Media Links

• http://www.asahi.com/main.html The Asahi Shimbun. Japan's leading daily, in English as well as Japanese
• http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index.html The Yomiuri Shimbun. One of Japan's leading dailies, in both English and Japanese
• http://www.japantimes.co.jp/ The Japan Times, a venerable English only daily in Japan
• http://home.kyodo.co.jp/ The Kyodo Tsushinsha, the Japanese version of Reuters

Other Links

• http://www.maruzen.co.jp/home-eng/index.html Maruzen Internet Shopping and On-line Bookstore, Japan's most venerable seller of books and journals in Western languages. Includes important links to major publisher's home pages world-wide. New in 1998.
• http://www.kinokuniya.co.jp/ Kinokuniya Books and Multimedia. Bi-lingual site with search and order capability for new publications in Japanese.

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