Web Resources

Before you go on your trip to Japan I recommend the following web sites.  Use the information on these sites to get the most out of your trip to Japan:  virtual or real.  Have fun.  

Fulbright Memorial Fund Programs:  http://www.glocomnet.or.jp/fmf  

For an FMF application:  http://www.iie.org/pgms/fmf/  

Kyogen theater:  http://jin.jcic.or.jp/access/noh/kyogen_h.html

Kenny Ogawa Kyogen Players:  http://tokyoclassified.com/lifeinjapanarchive299/257/lifeinjapaninc.htm

Susumu Ishtani:  http://www.ojr.k12.pa.us/writings/japan/oct9.htm

Nagasaki:  http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/

Kabuki theater:  http://www.fix.co.jp/kabuki/kabuki.html

Shamisen musical instrument:  http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/KABUKI/SHAMISEN.HTM

Tsukiji Fish Market:  http://www.photo.net/japan/tsukiji-fish-market

Tokyo subway:  http://japan.co.jp/~pbw/tokyosub.htm

Japanese Government and National Diet Building:  http://www.sangiin.go.jp/eng/guide/

Asakusa Shrine:  http://www.city.taito.tokyo.jp/taito-co/english/meisyo/003_05f.html

Meiji Shrine:  http://www.meijijingu.or.jp/english/

Japanese food:  http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/cook.html

Japan’s bullet trains:  http://www.japanrail.com/

City of Kyoto:  http://www.pref.kyoto.jp/index_e.html

Tokyo National Museum:  http://www.tnm.go.jp/

Japanese Baseball:  http://www.inter.co.jp/Baseball/

Mt. Fuji:  http://www.mt-fuji.co.jp/index-e.html

Kagoshima:  http://chukakunet.pref.kagoshima.jp/home/pref/english/index.html

Kagoshima City:  http://www.kagoshima-con.or.jp/kagoshima_e.htm

Kagoshima University:  http://www.cc.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/index-e.html

The tea ceremony, chanoyu:  http://www.teahyakka.com/

Juku:  http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/japan/c/q1.html

Tatami mats:  http://east.portland.ne.jp/~k_tok/floor01.htm

Ikebana:  http://www1.biz.biglobe.ne.jp/~ikebana/

Etiquette in the Japanese house:  http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e622.html