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JAPANESE MEDIA
- Look Japan- The Web site of an elegantly-designed magazine that covers all aspects of life in Japan, with monthly articles -- by Japanese and foreign specialists in the field -- now covering anything from the latest Cabinet reshuffle to traditional arts and crafts. The online version offers some of the articles of each month's dead-tree version.
- Metropolis - Tokyo-based feature/lifestyle magazine with news from Japan Today and English-language articles covering travel, health and beauty, technology and dining.
- Asia Pacific Media Network - Asianmedia is a UCLA-sponsored site that faetures news feeds from all of the Asia-Pacific region countries.
- Gate 39 - Original Features, Commentary, and Information about Japan -- in English. The site is divided ito sections including business, technology, culture, media, news, etc.
- Wai Wai from Mainichi Shimbun - Although I already link to the Mainichi below, the giant newspaper's "Wai Wai" section is worth pointing out separately. It's a hilarious rundown of the seamier, more lurid, and often just plain silly side of news in Japan. Stories about fallen celebrities and tarnished idols, sex crimes and the pulse of "middle Japan." I might even call it... "yellow trash."
- Kansai Time Out - A 25-year-old English language arts and entertainment magazine with an online archive section, JapanFile, that bills itself as an "information bridge between Japan and the world."
- Asian-American Village - Part of the expansive IMDiversity.com Web site which addresses all US minority groups, Asian-American Village is a thoughtful site that covers issues that affect Asian Americans of all stripes with articles and commentary. The site's goal is to be an online community gathering place for Asian Americans, and it succeeds. The site's editor, Stewart David Ikeda, has been kind enough to reprint some of my columns.
- Japan Today - A new daily news site that covers Japanese news (including business news), culture, arts and trends using both journalistic sources and user polls, commentary, feature stories and a sampling of interesting stories from the "Shukan Post" (Weekly Post). It's a friendly way to keep up with what's going on in Japan.
- AsianWeek - The online site for the San Fracisco-based US weekly newspaper that covers all Asian issues.
- Asahi Shimbun - No-nonsense English-language online version of one of Japan's huge national dailies. The quickest, best survey of top stories.
- Mainichi Shimbun/Mainichi Interactive - This giant daily newspaper's Web site evolved from an oddly laid-out graphical interface to one that's refreshingly designed like a newspaper. The English version of the site was down for a while, and it's re-emerged with a new URL and the better navigation.
- Japan Times - Domestic headline news, technology coverage and comprehensive entertaiment and cultural features from the long-running, respected English-language weekly. An added bonus: The Japan Times has for years featured book reviews by the great expatriate writer Donald Richie. Plus, great Western-style editorial cartoons including Roger Dahl's "Zero Gravity."
- Weekly Post - English-language online newsmagazine published by Japan's largest weekly magazine, "Shogakukan." A tad garish presentation, and heavy on "Editorial" and "Opinion."
- Daily Yomiuri - The Yomiuri Shimbun's English-language Web site. Straightforward presentation, but features more news (and more arts and entertainment news) than the others.
- Kyodo News Service - The Home Page of the Japanese news wire service, which includes news from throughout Asia in English, along with links to its member newspapers (many are Japanese-only).
- J-Stream - The Japanese Real-Audio site. There aren't a lot of Real Audio or Real Video sites in Japan yet -- no fun radio stations, though a few J-Pop groups -- but they're bound to develop more. For now, I've found daily Mainichi Shimbun newscasts, baseball, documentaries of street festivals, and an introduction to Kabuki site with a documentary and two complete performances.
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NikkeiNet Interactive - The English-language Web site of indexes, analysis and news of Japan's stock market, the Nikkei.
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