WWW-VL History Index

WWW-VL: HISTORY: JAPAN (This sit is looking for a new editor, 5 November 2004)

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Research Tools

Geography
- Maps
- Gazetteers, etc.
  - Regions and Cities
  - Cities and Towns
  - Japanese Place-Names on Old Western Maps, by Wolfgang Michel
Language
Reference
- Japan - A Country Study, from the Library of Congress
- Japanese Government Ministries
- Statistics
- Japanese Art
Bibliography
- Comprehensive Gateways
  - Japan WWW VL [Asian Studies]
  - National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies
    [an exceptional site with a great deal of material]
  - Stanford Guide to Japan Information Sources
  - Schauwecker's Guide to Japan
  - Japan Information
  - Japan Information Network
  - Japan Web Navigator
  - Japanese Search Engines
    [offers access to a number of search engines]
- General
  - English-Language Japanese Newspapers
  - Adminet
  - Catalogue des bibliothèques des Instituts d'Extrême-Orient - Collège de France
  - Japan in Europe (A Chronological Bibliography
  - Japan Studies: Digital Library
  - The Medical History of Japan
  - Writings of Wolfgang Michel (articles, abstracts, book selections; German, Rnglish, Japanese
  - Newsgroups and Discussion Lists Relating the Japan
Archives and Libraries
- Samurai Archives
Materials
- Texts
- Journals
  - WWW-VL Historical Journals Guide
  - Bulletin of Portuguese-Japanese Studies
- Images
  - Images from Japan
- Sound
- Research Centers
  - Ohara Institute for Social Research, Hosei University
- Associations
- Museums
  - Museums in Japan [a complete listing]
  - History/Museums
  - Japanese American National Museum
  - A-Bomb WWW Museum
- Booksellers
  - Ridgeback Press [site also contains materials on Meiji restoration, etc.]
Demography, Biography and Genealogy
Instruction
- Asia for Educators. [Click on "Teaching Aids" and then on Contemporary Japan: A Teaching Workbook]
timelines

History

General
- An Overview
- History of Japan [Leiden University]
- Guide to Japanese History
- A Premodern History of Odowara Through the Ages
Prehistoric
- Ancient Japan, and Introduction.
- Jomon Japan ca. 10,000 B.C.
- Jomon (5000-300 BC)
Ancient Japan, to 710 A.D.
Yayoi 300 BC-250 AD
- Yayoi Japan
Yamato 300-710
- The Yamato State
- Shinto
Nara 710-784

Heian 794-1185

Nara and Heian Periods 710-1185
The Heian Period
Buddhism: Kukai and Shingon
Social Classes in Feudal Japan 1100
Heroes of the Heian Period
Heian Art
Noh Drama
Picture Scroll Illustrating The Tale of Genji: Index and
Annotation [superior presentation]
Picture Scroll Illustrating The Tale of Genji
Summary of The Tale of Genji
The Rise of the Warrior Class
- Exploring Japanese Feudalism (Real Video)
- Founding Myth: Of Feudal Development
- Feudal Japan

Kamakura 1185-1333

Muromachi 1335-1573

Azuchi-Momoyama

Tokogawa Shogunate 1573-1867

Edo Period 1603-1667

Edo Period
Edo World
Exploring Virtual Edo
Art of the Edo Period
Rise of Kabuki Theater
History of Kabuki
Kabuki. Frozen Figures in a Floating World
History of Euro-Japanese Cultural Contacts, 17th century
Reisen der Niederländischen Ostindischen Kompanie im japanischen Archipel, by Wolfgang Michel
Nihon ni kansuru kansatsu - 1669nen kan no bunken to sono haikei nitsuite [Ernst van Hogenhoek and his "Observations Concerning Iapan" (1669)]

Later Tokugawa Shogunate

History of Euro-Japanese Cultural Contacts: 19th Century
[several articles in various languages]
History of Euro-Japanese Cultural Contacts
Old Western Texts on Japan
Johann Konrad Rîtzel (1672- 1754) Erste Spuren eines Ostindienfahrers und Raritîtensammlers - , by Wolfgagng Michel
Engelbert Kaempfers Besch�ftigung mit der japanischen Sprache.by Wolfgabg Michel
Ein Ostindianisches Sendschreiben - Andreas Cleyers Brief an Sebastian Scheffer vom 20. Dezember 1683 -, by Wolfgang Michel
Engelbert Kaempfer und die Medizin in Japan, by Wolfgang Michel
Engelbert Kaempfer Forum, by Wolfgang Michel On the Reception of Western Medicine in Seventeenth Century Japan, by Wolfgang Michel
Commodore Matthew Perry: When We Landed in Japan, 1854
Townsend Harris: The President's Letter
Francis Ottiwell Adams: The Schools of Japan

Meiji 1867-1912

Taisho 1912-1926

Showa 1926-1989
The Great War 1937-1945
Post-War 1945-1952
- General
  - Post-War History Since 1945
- Allied Occupation 1945-1952
- Economic Growth 1952-1989
Heisei 1989-
- 14 May 1997. Revelations in Newly-Released Documents About U.S. Nuclear Weapons and Okinawa Fuel NHK Documentary [from The National Security Archive]
- 13 December 1999. U.S. Nuclear Weapons on Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima [from The National Security Archive]

Topical

Religion
Unsorted
- Noto, an unexplored corner of Japan, by Percival Lowell

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