Japanese

Resources in this category:

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/

A site dedicated to University of Washington Libraries holdings on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. It also features virtual exhibits of the Puyallup assembly center and Camp Harmony.

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.