A View With No Slant

On-line Resources

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The following web sites are helpful for your research.

General Topics on Japanese History

Japan's First Encounter with the U.S.

Japan's Conflicts with the U.S.

Japan-U.S. Relations Now and Future

Student Recommended Sites

General Topics on Japanese History

http://trisun.rekihaku.ac.jp/rekihaku/information/about.html

A virtual tour of the museum. In English and Japanese.

• http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/jptoc.html

An online study of the history, people, geography and government of Japan.

 

Japan's First Encounter with the U.S.

• http://www.strelec.com/vicky/index.htm

An Independent Study of US/Japanese trade relations
starting with Commodore Matthew Perry's appearance in
Kurihama Bay and ending in the present day To be
presented by Vicky Fales.

• http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/orient/japan.htm

The opening of Japan to the West by Commodore Matthew C. Perry, U.S.N., profoundly affected the American imagination.

• http://www.jetro.org/inside/io9705.html

Commodore Matthew Perry meets Yoshida Shoin.

Japan's Conflicts with the U.S.

• http://www.balen.net/clark/rosmer/p172.htm

Clark Air Base 1899-1986 / The Calm Before the Storm P-40s
assigned to the 20th Pursuit Squadron were lined up at Clark
and awaiting fuel at 1215 on 8 December 1941. Fifteen
minutes later, the Japanese ...

• http://www.dannen.com/decision/index.html

Original documents, mostly from U.S. archives, about the decision to use the atomic bomb the cities of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

• http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/

This Web project aims to provide all readers with accurate information concerning the impact the first atomic
bomb had on Hiroshima.

• http://www.he.net/~douglong/

Excerpts from diaries and private papers, Web links, and the article on the bombing.

• http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/menu.html

The city of Hiroshima's page contains an archive of information on the bomb droppings, a call to stop nuclear
bomb usage, and information on the city.

• http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist8/tanforan2.html

San Francisco Japanese are to be taken to Tanforan Race
Track for internment. Gen. DeWitt is expected to speed
evacuation of Japanese from strategic areas of California

 

Japan-U.S. Relations Now and Future

• http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Economics/Japan/JapanNo

THE JAPAN THAT CAN SAY NO The New U.S.-Japan Relations Card by Akio Morita and Shintaro Ishihara Published in Japan by Kobunsha Publishing Ltd. Kappa-Holmes ...

• http://www.japantimes.co.jp/

Domestic news, editorial and special features and an easy to use news archive. Also news overviews and background information.

• http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm

Bilingual Japanese paper offering news, special features and an FAQ.

 

Student Recommended Sties (This is up-dated weekly.)