To get you started.....(some of these are Japanese or English language only sites)

JNTO listings

Dai Nippon Printing listings

National Museum of History (Rehihaku)

Japan Information Network/web-japan.org

Some interesting Japanese sites...these seem to be dead now, so I will look fro something new soon...

experimental "Common Index" of Japanese art
(uses shift-JIS code for Japanese fonts; on Netscape youmay have to change Document Encoding)

QTVR movies of Jomon pottery (and more...)
go to PhotoVR Studio - Introduction - samples

A hakubutsukan is a Japanese museum...but it isn't that easy!
So is a bijutsukan (museum of art),
a shiryokan (repository/archive - there are two kinds...),
a homotsukan (treasure hall),
and....I'll tell you the rest later; there are more than 30 of them!....

Anyway, although someone may say "museum" in English when discussing one of these institutions, there is more to it in Japanese than that. There are public and private museums, museums associated with just about every kind of thing you can imagine, religious treasure houses, and other kinds of institutions that sometimes get translated to "museum" with no further explanation...and so we miss out on a lot of the basic information.
There is also a big problem with saying "curator"...but as I do hope to publish my research in the real world, maybe you'll have to wait a little while for that one.
...6 years later...OK, never mind, here you go: Curators and Gakugeiin

Some other interesting links
Internet Museum - Japanese Museum Information
Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
Japanese Museum Association
Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs
Official Japanese policy reports dealing with Digital Museums (Japanese only - dead now?)
DOME ("Document of Museum Education") an "e-zine" (Japanese only)
network museum & magazine project an "e-zine"
The Institute of Exhibition Art and Technology - dead?
Report: IMAGE PROCESSING AND DATABASE SYSTEM IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR ART RESEARCH	(English only?)
Tanseisha
coming soon - links to Toppan Printing, and others...

An American collection of Japanese art...

WebMuseum:Japanese Art and Architecture

Daily Yomiuri On-Line (newspaper listings)

back to the listings...

how museums can deal with earthquakes

If you find a link that doesn't work, please e-mail me!

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JNTO listings

Dai Nippon Printing listings


National Museum of History (Rehihaku)
National Museum of History (Rehihaku)
Japan Information Network/web-japan.org