Here, for your convenience, are some J-Links for further exploring the mysteries of Japan - mysteries big as an omiyage-shop and small as a bonsai tree, mysteries old as the emperor's lineage and recent as the gangoro fad, mysteries solved and unsolved.

Information and News:

• Facts about Japan, from the guys with the shades
• Japan Times: News in English
• Mainichi Daily News: Alliterated allegations
• Topographical map of Japan
• Wanna be a JET?
• Communal JET info

Tools for survival:

• Jim Breen's Japanese-English Dictionary
• The JWPce waapuro - uses Jim Breen's dictionary, runs on gaijin pasocon
• Tokyo weather - without the weather channel's BGM
• Order a taste from home!
• SATW scholarship for Japan-bound Swiss engineers
• SJCC scholarship for young Swiss residents in Japan

Travel:

• Online guide to Japan
• Japan Youth Hostels
• Chiba Tourism
• Ishikawa Prefecture
• JR East - the money extorters
• JR West - partners in crime
• Searchable Japanese travel connections

Homepages and Curios:

• The Japanese Engrish Page
• More Engrish from J.A.S.P.E.R.
• The quirky Japan homepage
• The Japan Ring
• Been in Japan too long?
• Japanese Pop
• Japanese Enka
• Japanese Pizza
• Japanese oddities
• GOJIRA

J-Friends and their pages:

• Safety first: Stef of the Sea of Lights