The Japanese historical text initiative offered by the University of California Berkeley. A great digital datasource, that offers mostly free insight into many historical texts, which are very important for the development of a national and cultural(ist) consciousness of this nation.
A blog by a student, who until now has spent some years living in Japan. Its definitely not a "scientific" one, but you may find many interesting articles about different aspects of Japanese society, like a quite interesting one about the "tatemae" and "honne" phenomena. But most of the blog is witnessed to the life experience the author is making in Japan every day. So it becomes quite clear, that the author tries to give his experiences some kind of structure. With many photos ...