Buddhist &related Art

Other World History Teaching and Learning Resources: "Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art contains nearly 300,000 slides and photos of Asian art and architecture. Materials are predominantly Buddhist but include Hindu, Jain, Islamic, and other works (dating back to 2500... (Ohio State University, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities)"

online encyclopedia of Shinto launched

http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/
Questions should be directed to Inoue Nobutaka, Kokugakuin University
Telephone: +81 (0)3-5466-0205, n-inoue@kt.rim.or[dot jp]

sources of images

A couple of sources of pictures that come to mind are www.flickr.com (the ones in the public section are tagged with keywords like
temple, japan, chio-in, and so forth); many of these are labelled with the Creative Commons limited copyright conditions, such as
freely use with photographer attribution.

Association for Asian Studies, www.aasianst.org, is providing a place for sharing photos, too, although it is not fully functioning
yet.

Other places I've found rich viewing is the photogalleries at www.japansociety.org and www.tjf.or.jp/deai (as well as their photo essay
area, "photo cafe" I think they call it)

I have some very basic comparisions of Japan/Korea at www.umich.edu/~wittevee/korea/andjapan which can be used for educational
purposes, as well.

chapters on foodways

FOOD AND FOODWAYS IN ASIA: RESOURCE, TRADITION AND COOKING. Edited by Sidney C.H. CHEUNG
and TAN Chee-Beng, published by Routledge in 2007.
[Japan chapters]
2. Namako and Iriko: Historical overview on holothurian (sea cucumber) exploitation, utilization and trade in Japan. Akamine Jun
9. Indigenous Food and Foodways: Mapping the production of Ainu food in Tokyo. Mark K. Watson
14. Asia' s Contributions to World Cuisine: a beginning inquiry. Sidney W. Mintz

Japan schools to teach patriotism

Japan's lower house of parliament approves a new law requiring schools to
teach children to be patriotic.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/6669061.stm

assessing Japan's shifting population pyramid

from www.japanfocus.org [using searchbox or topics list]
Vaclav Smil, The Unprecedented Shift in Japan's Population: Numbers, Age,
and Prospects

The National Institute of Population and Social Security Research latest
long-range forecast of the country's population showed, once again, a
faster decline than previously anticipated: the medium variant projects
the total population of only about 90 million (89.93) people by 2055, the
igure that both Asahi Shimbun and Mainichi Shimbun found "shocking". This
was followed by a population projection to 2050 by the United Nations
Population Division and Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and
Communications latest nationwide estimate of Japan's population. Japan's
population (including foreign residents) peaked in December 2004 at
127,838,000 people and only a tunning, not just surprising, turn of
demographic fortunes can prevent the combination of relatively rapid
population decline and of unprecedented aging of the country's population.
This article assesses the projections.

archive of 80 Japan photos 1945-1952 (occupation)

cross-posting from H-Japan (www.h-net.msu.edu)
The Center for Japanese Studies, the University of Hawaii at Mnoa, is
pleased to announce the Walter Pennino Photo Collection is available on
the Internet. The collection presents eighty photos during the occupation
of Japan. Many of them show every-day life of people in Japan at that time.

http://www.hawaii.edu/cjs/pennino_entrance.html