Japanese

Resources in this category:

About.com: Japanese Cuisine
http://japanesefood.about.com/

An Internet guide for the food of the people of Japan, with feature articles, Website links, and discussion forums. Topics covered include drinks, tofu, rice, seafood, egg dishes, cookware, and sushi.

About.com: Japanese Culture
http://japanese.about.com/od/japaneseculture/Japanese_Cultur...

An Internet guide to the culture of the people of Japan, with feature articles, Website links, and discussion forums. Topics covered include architecture, art, food, folk arts, games, history, religion, folk tales, women, and martial arts.

Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
http://www.densho.org/

A site that preserves personal testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II.

A History of Kimono
http://web.mit.edu/jpnet/kimono/

"The kimono is the traditional clothing of Japan. Kimono styles have changed significantly from one period of Japan's history to another, and today there are many different types of kimono worn by men, women, and children. The cut, color, fabric, and decorations of a kimono may vary according to the sex, age, and marital status of the wearer, the season of the year, and the occasion for which the kimono is worn." This site has excellent pictures of kimono and is interactive. It is a joint project between the Japanese and Culture Network and MIT.

Japan of Today
http://web-jpn.org/index.html

Includes substantial Website resources related to Japan.

Japan Reference Page
http://www.japanreference.com/

A directory of websites from or about Japan.

Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/

"The Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project is a multifaceted project to create a permanent Web site which provides enhanced access to the UW Libraries holdings on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Included in the project is a virtual exhibit focusing on the Puyallup assembly center, Camp Harmony, and enhanced access to archival guides and inventories of the UW Libraries Manuscripts and University Archives Division." "Camp Harmony Exhibit: Most of the material for the exhibit is available in the University of Washington Libraries: Manuscripts and University Archives Division, Special Collections and Preservation Division and Microforms and Newspapers Collection. Additional material came from the Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, Washington and the Hoover Institution Archives. The University of Washington Press gave permission to provide the chapter from Nisei Daughter."

Manga FAQ
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/manga/

FAQ for the rec.arts.manga Usenet newsgroup, dealing with the world of Japanese comic books.

Rolling Your Own Sushi
http://www.rain.org/~hutch/sushi.html

Learn to roll your own sushi at home with help from recipes and diagrams at this site.

The Storys: Anything-Goes Links
http://www.storyjapan.com/

"Take a virtual trip to Japan!" Directory of links on culture, history, food, traditional arts, folklore and other topics.

Suffering Under a Great Injustice : Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/

"In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's best-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. In "Suffering under a Great Injustice": Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar, the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress presents for the first time side-by-side digital scans of both Adams's 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints, allowing viewers to see his darkroom technique and in particular how he cropped his prints."

Tokyo Food Page
http://www.bento.com/tokyofood.html

For the lover of Japanese food, this site offers information on a variety of Japanese specialty cuisines, a listing of restaurants in Tokyo, articles on Japanese food beautifully illustrated with photographs, and Japanese recipes.