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	The Confusion Era - http://educate.si.edu/migrations/sackler/salthome.html Describes postwar American involvement in remodeling Japanese society, along with pictures of several posters used for information and propaganda.
	Japan Center for Asian Historical Records - http://www.jacar.go.jp/english/index.html Provides electronic access to digital images of historical records about modern Japan-Asia relations held by Japanese national institutions. Includes records held by the National Archives of Japan, the Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the National Institute for Defense Studies of the National Defense Agency. Time period: early Meiji (1867-1912) era through World War II. In English and Japanese.
	The Currency Museum - http://www.imes.boj.or.jp/cm/english_htmls/index.htm Bank of Japan virtual museum exhibit of old currency in Japan, as well as money used during Japan's colonial empire.
	MIT Visualizing Cultures -- Japan - http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027j/menu/index.html Visual culture (art, photography, video, etc) of Japan since the mid-19th century. The aim of the collection, created by Pulitzer-Prize winner John Dower, is to gain new perspectives on "cultures" in the broadest sense. "Cultures" include Westernization, modernization, changing modes of technology and mass communication, imperialism, nationalism, militarism, racism, commercialization and consumerism. Begins with the black ships of Commodore Perry and ends with pictures by A-bomb survivors.
	Constitution of the Empire of Japan (1889) - http://history.hanover.edu/texts/1889con.htm Full text in English of Japan's former constitution, from Hanover University.

	Japanese History - http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e641.html History of Japan. Overview, and ancient to modern Japan
	Japanese Historical Text Initiative - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/JHTI/ Digitized, searchable database of important Japanese historical documents, with English translations. Includes ancient chronicles such as the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, medieval stories such as Okagami, and documents of the modern Japanese state such as Kokutai no Hongi (Principles of Nation-body).
	Imperial Japanese Navy Page - http://www.combinedfleet.com/ Contains pictures of former vessels in the wartime navy, as well as information on their guns, torpedoes, sensors, names, and officers.
	History of Japanese Railways - http://www.rtri.or.jp/japanrail/History1_E.html Chronological listing of railroads from 1872 to 1907 (the first line, redcap, women employed, and horsedrawn). A few illustrations, including a print of an 1870s train.
	The Imperial Family of Japan - http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/3953/ Provides biographical information, pictures, genealogical tables, and legal documents on the current status of the imperial family.

	Timeline of Japanese History - http://www.askasia.org/teachers/essays/essay.php?no=131/ Brief outline of historical periods from the Jomon Period to the present.
	Japanese History Documentation Project - http://www.openhistory.org/jhdp/ Includes an encyclopedia, introduction to Japanese history, and booklists.
	History of Cultural Relations Between Europe and Japan - http://www.flc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~michel/serv/eujap/ Sources, data, tables, texts related to the history of Euro-Japanese interchange, from Prof. Wolfgang Michel-Zaitsu.
	History Textbook Controversies in Japan - http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-1/japan.htm Provides full-text access to the ERIC Digest of this name which looks at Japanese textbooks and how they cover Japanese history from the early 20th Century.
	Japanese Militarism & Diaoyutai (Senkaku) Island - http://www.skycitygallery.com/japan/diaohist.html Essay by a Kyoto University professor attacking Japanese nationalism and asserting that the Diaoyutai islands are rightfully China's.

	Largest Cities in Japan: Population from 1890 - http://www.demographia.com/db-jp-city1940.htm Shows populations in major Japanese cities every decade from 1890.
	Dancing People are Happy People - http://www.uwosh.edu/home_pages/faculty_staff/earns/niblo.html Essay on the introduction of square dancing to the people of Nagasaki in 1946 and its increase of social mixing between sexes and cultures.
	Manifestations of Gender Distinction in the Japanese Language - http://www.coolest.com/jpfm.htm Explains historical development of the Japanese language and diversity of its gender specific constructs and their usage.
	Secret of Sakhalin Island (Karafuto) - http://www.karafuto.com/ Overview of history and discovery of Sakhalin Island (Karafuto), one of the territories still disputed between Japan and Russia.
	Association for the Advancement of Liberalist View of History - http://www.jiyuu-shikan.org/e/ Provides a revisionist view of topics on 20th century Japanese history and military, reparations, comfort women, and their movement to remove war crime references in textbooks.

	Evolution of Japanese Stamps - http://www.ambassadors.net/features.htm Chronicles the development of Japanese stamps from 1929.
	Whale Meat in the Traditional Japanese Diet - http://luna.pos.to/whale/jwa_trad.html From the Jomon period to 1987.
	Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan - http://www.jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op17.html Essay on Hirohito and the Japanese government coming to grips with Japan's decision to go to war and their post-war relationship with the United States.
	Emperor Hirohito in 20th Century History: The Debate Rekindles - http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp92.html Examines a new debate on Hirohito and his role in WWII and history, and as at once a product and an active agent of Japan's modern historical process.
	Business and Politics in Early 20th Century Japan - http://ideas.repec.org/p/cep/stijsp/429.html Seeks to clarify the contributions and limitations of Japanese business diplomacy. Argues that Japanese business diplomacy, was insufficiently influential to prevent political and military conflict.

	100 Years of Japanese Motoring - http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~iwat/ Provides little known history of the start of motorized transportation in Japan.
	Politics and the Economy in Pre-War Japan - http://ideas.repec.org/p/cep/stijsp/381.html Discusses the influences that led to the economic policies pursued in the interwar period.
	Aspects of Japanese Shipping History - http://ideas.repec.org/p/cep/stijsp/376.html Outlines trends in the development of Japan's commercial shipping prior to World War I. Argues that the promotion of the industry was undertaken primarily not for commercial, but for strategic imperialist reasons.
	Japan 1868 - http://membres.lycos.fr/japon1868/ Site on relations between France and Japan in 1867-1869.
	Fukuzawa Yukichi - http://www.zombiezodiac.com/rob/fukuzawa.htm Short college essay on Fukuzawa, who was one of the Meiji Era's most influential figures.

	Great Japanese Inventors in History - http://www.batfa.com/greatjapanese.html List and description of several Meiji Era Japanese inventors, with descriptions of in their creations and biographies.
	Japan Under American Occupation - http://www.empereur.com/DOC/Japan_occup.html Brief notes on the role played by the United States during the Allied occupation of Japan from September 1945 through 1952.
	Ao's Japan - http://www005.upp.so-net.ne.jp/aoh/ Overview and introduction to attractions, temples and shrines, brief guide of major cities, history, nuclear radiation and environmental issues.
	Nengo Dates - http://www.lioncoins.com/dates.htm Offers quick conversion from the traditional Japanese calendar system from 1868 to the Gregorian calendar.

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