Japanese Heritage

•  Japan Reference

•  NOVA: Island of the Spirits - travel to Hokkaido, Japan and learn about the origins and legends of the Ainu, Japan's indigenous people.
•  Ainu Language - provides phonetic spelling and audio clips of basic phrases used in the language.

•  Yahoo! Japanese
•  Japanese Era Converters with animal zodiac in Java, Perl

•  Japanese Culture Worldwide@
•  History of Internment Camps@
•  Organizations (6)
•  International Nikkei Research Project - designed to increase and share knowledge of Nikkei cultures and foster understanding between the US, Japan and other nations with a Nikkei population.
•  Japanese American National Museum
•  Japanese American Network - partnership of organizations in Little Tokyo.
•  Japanese Cultural Arts Center - offering martial arts, music, dance, and other programs and classes.
•  National Japanese American Historical Society - Nikkei Heritage Online - historical and cultural organization driven by oral histories, exhibitions and publications.
•  Nikkei Home Page
•  NikkeiWest - Japanese-American bi-weekly publication for the Nisei, Sansei, and Yonsei of Northern California.
•  Shakunage Cultural Foundation - provides educational programs and facilitates cultural exchanges with Japan for the purpose of furthering the understanding of Japanese culture.
•  United States-Japan Foundation - private and independent grantmaking organization established to promote greater mutual knowledge and understanding between Americans and Japanese.

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last edited Monday, December 26, 2005