The University of Kansas Libraries

Internet Resources--Japan Studies: History
East Asian Library, University of Kansas

General Sites

• Exhibition of Prewar Japanese Political Posters, H¯osei University, ¯Ohara Institute
  http://oohara.mt.tama.hosei.ac.jp/poster/english.html
  
  
• History: An Index of Resources for Historians -- Univ. of Kansas
  http://kuhttp.cc.ku.edu/history/WWW_history_main.html
  Rather Eurocentric in its bias, but good for general information.
  


• History of Japan (Schauwecker's Guide to Japan)
  http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e641main.html
  It features an overview and descriptions of the different periods of Japanese history.
  
  
• Hiroshima Archive
  http://www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/
  Hiroshima Archive has a photographic gallery and a directory of internet links.
  
  
• Historiographical Institute , University of T¯oky¯o
  http://www.hi.u-tokyo.ac.jp/shipso/
  
  
• H-JAPAN Home Page
  http://h-net.msu.edu/~japan/
  The page has logs of the discussions of the H-Japan mailing list and will have
  additional resources.
  
  
• The International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) Kyoto, Japan
  http://www.nichibun.ac.jp



• Japan Center for Asian Historical Records
  http://www.jacar.go.jp/
  JACAR was established to provide throught the Internet indexes to and digital images of historical records about modern Japan-Asia relations held by Japanese national institutions. Materials included cover from early Meiji times through World War II.
  
  
• Japanese Historical Text Initiative, University of California
  http://www.ecai.org/shinto/textinitiative/
  
  
• The Japan War Responsibility Center
  http://www.jca.apc.org/JWRC/center/english/index-english.htm
  The Japan War Responsibility Center is a volunteer organization dedicated to gathering information relevant to Japan's war responsibility.
  
  
• Mainichi Photo Bank

http://photobank.mainichi.co.jp/
Digital archibe for more than 200,000 photographs including 120,000 photographs taken in the pre-World War II period. You may purchase a copy of any photograph through the Web page.


• National Museum of Japanese History
  http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/
  Kokuritsu Rekishi Minzoku Hakubutsukan has links to information about other Japanese art and history museums.
  
  
• Rekishigaku Kankei Web Saito Ch¯o
  http://www.h-web.org/
  Provides an indexed and searchiable series of links intended for scholars of Japanese history. Also includes a searchable index to the back number of criticism on history.
  


• Shiry¯ohensanjo (Historiographical Institute)
  http://www.hi.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
  University of T¯oky¯o
  
  
• T¯oky¯o National Research Institute of Cultural Properties
  http://www.tobunken.go.jp/

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Databases of Teaching Materials

• Ask ERIC's Virtual Library Database http://ericir.syr.edu/Eric/
  
  
• Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiabook.html
  Sourcebooks are collections of texts in the public domain that are available for copying for educational purpose. Compiled by Paul Halsall at Fordham. Particulary useful for WW II. Pearl Harbor attack documents are also part of the broader Modern History Sourcebook.
  
  
• National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies http://www.indiana.edu/~japan/
  
  
• PIER [Program In International Educational Resources] Teaching Resource Collection
  materials (Yale Univ.) http://www.cis.yale.edu/pieris/p_res.html
  PIER Teaching Resource Collection materials can be used by representatives of educational institutions (K-12, college), businesses, the media, and organizations for educational and training purposes. Materials can be reserved by e-mail or phone and shipped or picked up in person during open hours.

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• Teacher Dialogue: Connect to the CTA listserv
  http://www.indiana.edu/~japan/cta.html
  E-mail network on teaching about Asia . Get information on curriculum materials, workshops and summer institutes, and travel programs for educators; ask for information about: video and CD-ROM for class use, recommended resources on specific topics, teaching strategies, course outlines, and much more. To join, send email to listproc@lists.yale.edu.

Digital Image Archives

• AccuNet/AP Photo Archive
  http://ap.accuweather.com/apphoto/index.htm
  This archive is the largest comprehensive archive for photographs available online. It contains approximately 700,000 photos from 1840 through the present. The majority are post-1995, but older ones are being scanned into the database on a regular basis, while up-to-the-minute images by newspaper companies and photojournalists from around the world.
  
• AP Photo Archive
  http://photoarchive.ap.org
  This archive offers a pay-per-view photograph redistribution service aimed at registered corporate clients.
  
• Bakumatsu and Meiji Old Photo Archives , Nagasaki University
  http://oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp
  This archive contains approximately 5,400 valuable historical photographs, which shows how Japan was transforming from the late Edo period into the Meiji.
  
• Database of Early Photographs , International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/graphicversion/dbase/oldpe.htm
  It offers historical photographs made during the late Edo period through early Meiji. You can enjoy experiencing the Meiji period through historical records captured in such photographs, which were the cutting edge medium back them.
  
• Early Photo Database , Historiographical Institute at University of Toky¯o
  http://www.hi.u-tokyo.ac.jp/gazo/gazo.html
  It contains many portraits from notable figures in the late Edo through the Meiji era and is the only database that includes a photograph of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th sh¯ogun. It also includes photographs of the Western peoples and materials obtains on the Iwakura Mission.
  
• Peace Database , Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation
  http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesite/Japanese/database/database.html
  It is a multimedia database consisting of various types of information in text, image and audio to reflect an entreaty for the abolition of nuclear weapons. The database exhibits over the Internet 12,000 items housed at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
  

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