Useful Links
Anthropology
SEAA Online Dictionary of Keywords in Anthropology
World Council of Anthropological Associations
Architecture
JAANUS – Terminology of Japanese Architecture and Art History
Archives in Japan
Art and Visual Cultures
Database of Japanese Photographs from the Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
Historical Photographs of China
Lafayette College East Asia Image Collection – A new open-access digital archive of colonial Taiwan and occupation Japan photographs, photo-negatives, slides and postcards, numbering thousands, with more to come.
Maruki Museum, The Hiroshima Panels
Post-1945 Japanese Art Discussion Group
Ukiyo’e Caricatures 1842-1905 Database
Visual Anthropology of Japan Blog
Asia
East Asia Related Blogs
井底之蛙 (China Studies Blog)
井の中の蛙 (Japan Studies Blog)
우물 안 개구리 (Korea Studies Blog)
Far Outliers (Asia-Pacific)
East Asian Studies Associations
American Assoc. for Chinese Studies (AACS)
Arts of China Consortium (ACC)
Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
European Association of Japanese Studies
Int’l Convention for Asia Scholars (ICAS)
International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
Japan Association for Queer Studies (JAQS)
Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA)
North American Taiwan Studies Association
East Asian Studies e-Resources
Asian Studies Centers & Programs
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
Bibliography of Japanese History Up to 1912
Center for Buddhist Studies Weblog
East Asian Integration Studies
East Asian Libraries and Archive Wiki
Encyclopedia of Shinto (current), earlier
Japan Focus: Asia-Pacific Journal – Long-form essays searchable by theme or pre-bundled by topic
Joseph Berry Keenan Digital Collection – Comprised of manuscript materials and photographs, this collection offers researchers invaluable insight into the Japanese War Crimes Trial
Korean History: A Bibliography
North Korea International Documentation Project
Nengo Calc – Calculates historical dates/eras by year, month and day back to 593
North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC) – A variety of rich Japanese online products available for licensing by libraries, universities, and
individual scholars. The resources range from full-text coverage of major
Japanese newspapers to journal indexes, dictionaries, company information,
and beyond.
Japanese Image Archives
Artize.net Provides digital images of collections from Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum, and cultural heritage institutions.
The Art of Asia (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
British Museum . Objects from Japan can be located through “Collection database search”.
Dai Nippon Printing Image Archives
Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948-1951 A personal and professional memoir by John W. Bennett.
The Floating World of Ukiyo-e, Shadows, dreams, and substance (Library of Congress)
Historical Agro-Environment Browsing System Includes nearly 900 map sheets of rapid survey maps, covering the Kanto Region surrounding Tokyo. Provides detailed land use information in the areas during 1880s.
Japanese Historical Maps (East Asian Library, University of California , Berkeley)
Lafayette College East Asia Image Collection (with emphasis on colonial Taiwan and occupied Japan)
Prange Collection from 1945-1949 Occupation-era Japan
P&P online catalog – fine prints: Japanese, pre-1915 (Library of Congress)
Religions of Japan – (Photo Archive of Japanese Religions)
Union catalog of the collections of the national art museums, Japan
Video clips and (English) interviews from rural Japan in 1998 and again in 2018, mainly Fukui-ken
Manga and Anime Resources
Online Bibliography of Anime and Manga Research
Research Guides
Career Advice: Art of the Conference Paper An essay on how to give effective conference papers, advice that is useful in many academic and non-academic settings.