Manga Research Source

A collection of essays on Death Note, including: -Gothic Elements in Death Note -All for Love: Women in Death Note -The Makings of a Murderer

A series of links to various sets of manga analysis. Including: -What Makes A Professional Manga -Visual Flow -Aging Characters

The National Institute for Informatics' academic content portal, providing services related to provision of academic paper information, book information, etc.

Japan Knowledge is an collection of Japanese encyclopedias, dictionaries, and databases. The site includes electronic resources such as Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, 日本人名大辞典 (Nihon jinmei dai jiten), 大辞泉 (Dai jisen), 現代用語の基礎知識 (Gendai yogo no kiso chishiki), and JK Who's Who (current database of well-known individuals in Japan). *Subscription is required

A online (university recommended) Japanese dictionary that not only provides users with a Japanese/English - English/Japanese function, but also translates from Japanese to 7 other languages.

Rikai is an excellent Japanese online dictionary. *Site is available in English to Japanese as well *For Firefox users, there is an extremely useful add-on. Simply google "rikai-chan" and install.

Committed to directing users to Asian area content in the humanities and social sciences, the Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) is supported by an impressive complement of area studies scholars, bibliographers and subject selectors based at the libraries of the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota and the Ohio State University. PAIR offers scholars, students and the interested public more than six thousand professionally selected, cataloged and annotated online resources within 25 different subtopic areas.

JILPT publishes a booklet containing selected labor statistics to present a profile of Japanese workers from various perspectives. It covers basic statistical data to give a whole picture of Japanese labor situation, such as indices for economic environment, employment situation, working conditions, family life and social security policy. Also, it provides statistics on some hot topics dealing with current labor issues in Japan, including employment of elderly workers, increasing non-regular workers, foreign workers / labor migration, various working patterns, changing labor management relations, and so on. *PDF contains information in both English and Japanese *Information available as early as 2004

The Center for the Advancement of Working Women's website provides researchers with statistics concerning women in the workforce in Japan. Among the information included on the site is statistics on: attitudes towards working women, reasons why women work/do not work, trends of female employees, and percentage of female managerial-level staff.