Finding info on Internet 
Japan
- Army (US) Area Handbook for Japan gives fulltext information about the Japan, including its history, politics and government.
- CIA Factbook 1995 : Japan provides general information on Japan, including population, economic, trade conflict and politics.
- Cabinet Members names the current Japan cabinet members.
- Info Japanis the home page of Embassy of Japan in Singapore, it provides useful and intersting links to web sites related to Japan, On-line Inquiry Service also available.
- The Environment for International Investment and Japan : views on MAI Negotiations is the interim report by Commitment on International Industrial Cooperation, Keidanren (Japan Federation of Economic Organization) dated May 7, 1996.
- Inforum is maintained by the Center for Global Communication of the International University of Japan. It offers Social Sciences Resources which gives fulltext documents on topics ranging from economics to sociology. It also has links to interesting web sites for Japan.
- Japan's Role in APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) is the proposal for the 1995 APEC Osaka Meeting from Keidanren (Japan Federation of Economic Organization). Dated June 20, 1995.
- Japanese Information gives some information about Tokyo, Japanese culture, Japanese consumer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Also has some information about US-Japan and EU-Japan economic relations.
- Haiku for people is a comprehensive source for Haiku edited by Kei Greig Toyomasu in Norway. It includes :
- What is haiku?
- How to write Haiku poems
- Haiku poems written by famous poets (e.g. Basho, Buson & Issa etc.)
- Mingei : two centuries of Japanese folk art by the Mingeikan/USA Tour and Japan Folk Crafts Museum in Tokyo allows you to browse through some samples of Japanese craft, including textiles, lacquerware and pictures.
- Ukiyo-e : pictures of the floating world collected by Jim Breen with images by Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro and others.
Additional sources of information on Japan can also be found at the following sites:
- Japan J-Guide by the US-Japan Technology Management Center at Stanford University. It offers many interesting links ranging from business, history, politics to technology.
- Japan Web Guide is another long list of sites organised into categories. It is maintained by Forest Linton.
- Taki Naruto's Home Page has lots of links on Japan.
- Yahoo : Japan is one good place to start looking for information about Japan.
You can also explore other sources of information by using keywords on Internet Search from Netscape.
Maintained by Tham Wai Fong, NUS Library Web Team, June 1996.
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