Recommended Links

Tokyo Journal - "Japan's oldest English-language magazine. Unbiased, unadulterated. Tokyo and Japan as seen through the eyes of those who know and live it. That's been the Tokyo Journal format for over 20 years."

"Resurgence magazine brings together leading writers and educationalists to present topics of vital importance to our world, including ecology, climate change, sustainable development, organic living, human-scale education and conflict resolution. Resurgence offers unique insights and presents a holistic philosophy infused with spirituality and creativity". (See interview with founding editor Satish Kumar, in KJ #43)

"Japan Focus is an electronic journal and archive chronicling Japan and the Asia-Pacific in global perspective, encompassing politics, economics, society, history, culture, international relations, war and peace, and historical memory. In addition to Japan Focus exclusives, it presents translations from Japanese and other languages as well as reprints of important texts."

The PEPY Ride is an education based cycle tour across Cambodia bringing 5 female teachers to rural schools and orphanages to teach about health and the environment. All of our riders have spent time in Japan, and most of us still live here. We are working now to raise $35,000 to build a school in rural Cambodia which we hope to complete before the start of the ride.

Ode is an independent magazine about the people and ideas that are changing the world.
"Sometimes it’s difficult to see beyond the war, poverty, exploitation and pollution that the mainstream media use to fill our view of the world. But there is more to life. There are other stories to report. Stories of countless initiatives being launched around the globe by people devoted to justice, respect and equality. Stories that bridge the gap between thinking and doing, between rage and hope, and the painful gap between the rich and poor – and thus build peace and sustainability. That is the news that Ode promises to deliver. By reading Ode you connect to a network of positive change and inspiration. Ode points the way to knowing better, doing better and feeling better."

Good Day Books is is the largest used English bookshop in Tokyo and in Japan. More than 35,000 different new, used, and hard-to-find English titles in stock. Located inside the Yamanote Line, a few minutes' walk from Ebisu Station on either the JR Yamanote Line or the Hibiya Line subway, Good Day Books also sponsors: BOOKNOTES, a bi-monthly lecture series by authors who are writing or who have written about Japanese, famous and obscure, or Japan, past and present; and BOOKCLUB, a monthly non-fiction book club and discussion series for politics/history/foreign policy junkies.

Avenues magazine is a local English magazine based in Aiichi, now in its 20th year. Good coverage of the Green Expo and other concerns of Central Japan.

Margin Notes: This excellent site by Winnie Shiraishi (originally from the US and now a permanent resident living in Shizuoka Prefecture) highlights print media originally written in Japanese and translated into English, and provides information on Japanese writers available in English, also on publishing news, book signings, and translation resources. Includes great links, and useful manga connections. A superb ongoing resource!

Asiana Press Agency (A new source, and opportunity for investigative reporters/photographers)

Common Dreams NewsCenter ("News & Views for the Progressive Community")

Massive Change (21st Century "Design for the Real World")

Big Pictures Small World (A new site by visionary Medard Gabel)

Worldometers (Part of an earlier / ongoing project by Medard Gabel at O.S.Earth.com)

Electric Sheep (Patrick Farley's brilliantly imaginative graphics-based storytelling ... see especially post-9/11 The Spiders, and The Jain's Death)

The Hunger Site (Donate food for free to hungry people every day!)

Ashoka (Social entrepreneurism across Asia)

Photovoice

Noy Thrupkaew's TAP columns (Formerly a senior writer at The American Prospect -- includes her review of Spirited Away)

Tale of Murasaki (Geisha author Liza Dalby's site accompanying her newest book, Tales of Murasaki)

Alex Kerr on Dogs & Demons (Atlantic Online, with James Fallows)

Disposable Planet (BBC site in response to Johannesburg conference)

Another Poster for Peace

The Great Story Home and Great Story Parables

MEDIA IN ASIA DIRECTORY (from KJ #46 - our first "virtual Bookzine")

Two Lines: A Journal of Translation

Dahr Jamail (unembedded reports from Iraq)

Pure Land Mountain (Robert Brady's blog, "an American in countryside Japan")

Don Kirk (very knowledgable author & journalist based in Seoul)

markuz wernli [interaction design] (Marcuz is a designer living in Kyoto, and contributing to KJ)

Marc Peter Keane's Japanese garden design pages

A Year in the Life of a Kyoto Neighbourhood  (KJ's home ground, in living B&W, by Albie Sharpe & Sally McLaren)

Exploring Kyoto (Excellent guidebook by Judith Clancy)

Group of 21 (Robert Kowalczyk and a dedicated network of local Kyoto peace activists, site maintained by Albie Sharpe)

Edo Photos  (highly developed pinhole photography by Edward Levinson)

Institute of East Asian Architecture and Urbanism [virtual home of designer & writer Guenter Nitschke])

Sarah Brayer's Studio (Kyoto artist 22 years in Japan - fine prints  paperworks)

Michael Hoffman, Nanga Painter (sumie and paintings by an old Kyoto friend & occasional illustrator of KJ)

The Sloth Club ("Slow is Beautiful" - Keibo Oiwa. See KJ #47)

Nancho Resurgence (David Kubiak's virtual media empire archive including KJ articles on ki & the body politic)

Sidney Atkins Photographs (currently showing images of Korea, with informative notes)

Monty Levinson Tai Hei Shakuhachi (fine bamboo flutes - made in Willits, CA)s

Tao Shiatsu and Ryokyu Endo (remarkable Kyoto-based shiatsu teacher/aikido practitioner/musician)

Echoes of Incense (a great site, actually a book documenting Don Weiss' pilgrimage around Shikoku, with info & advice - see KJ# 30)

A Different Kind of Luxury (Articles by Andy Couturier, originally published in The Japan Times)

Seyed Alavi (Sublime installations and public art -- Sayed provided digital calligraphy to accompany David Loy's article in #51)

Leza Lowitz (contributing poet, translator, reviewer, novelist...)

brushink.com (Jim Hathaway's sumie site)

The Institute for Reverential Ecology

The Breakaway Japanese Kitchen (Eric Gower's cyberkitchen)

Ken Chen

Rimi Yang (KJ illustrator)

JAPAN AND ASIA

• The Association of Foreign Wives of Japanese (Friendship, support, mutual help in adjusting)
• Dharma-Japan
• Keiko Uehara (a young woman photographer of Kyoto gardens etc)
• Japanese Guest Houses  (Make a Reservation at a Ryokan (Traditional Japanese Inn) anywhere inJapan)
• Esprit Travel: Sample Itineraries
• NewsonJapan.com (Leading daily news compilation on Japan)
• Images of Japan News, photographs and information on Japan
• Keiko Uehara [an excellent young photographer working mostly with nature & gardens in & around Kyoto]
• Teaching (and Learning) About Japan (Cleveland State University: one of the best hyperlinked resources for cultural overviews)
• Japan Atlas: Festivals (great resource)
• KENBOKO-Hereditary Treasures of Kyoto Festivals (fascinating research)
• Mountain Spirits (David Mason's site on Korean Mountain Spirits and Dr. Zo Zayong)
• Chinese Art.com  (Superb traditional and up-to-the-minute contemporary works, essays, exhibition info)
• The Play of Light (David Culton's breathtaking photographs of Kyoto by night)
• Kisetsuga (photography by John Wells)
• Gallery Point One (photography by Stepjen Hryncewicz)
• Astronomy in Japan (informative essays & graphics, superb photos, astro-info too)
• Kochi University, Weather  (Japan's weather on-line)
• The Information Centre in Kyoto (British Council, Kyoto)
• The Japanese Garden Database(informative, well-illustrated)
• Institute of East Asian Architecture
• Internet East Asian History Sourcebook (fascinating early documents on-line)
• Kyoto International School (K-8th grade)
• Kyoto Seika University  (founded in the radical '60's)
• Buddhist Resources  (ARIS)
• Shinto Website (from the Institute for Medieval Japan Studies)
• INEB Think Sangha (International Network of Engaged Buddhists)
• Cyber-Sangha(archive & library)
• The Golden Elixir Home Page (Taoism & Chinese alchemy)
• Tao Te Ching (translation by jh mcdonald)
• Lake Biwa Museum (The real museum is way way way better than the website...)
• Miho Museum (Superb building, exquisite collection)
• Eggi's Village (an indigenous Minangkabau village in Indonesia)
• Brother Anthony / An Sonjae (and more fine translations of Korean poetry)
• BlackStump Oriental Page (diverse links for 25 Asian countries)
• Corporate Watch Japan
• Kansai Digital Archives Project & Rekishi Kaido
• Giant Trees of Japan
• Kaede & Momiji (the world of maples)
• JCA-NET English

• Kansai International Media Forum (foreign press club centered on Osaka)
• KYOTO VISITOR'S GUIDE  (monthly free publication, good archives)
• Kansai Time Out (local monthly guide)
• Tokyo Q
• NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
• The Kyoto Shimbun  (local newspaper)
• Pacific Friend (magazine providing different views of Japan)
• Daruma (Japanese arts & antiques quarterly)
• The Anime Turnpike (the biggest anime site in English, with excellent reviews)
• PRISMS ("The Ultimate Manga guide")

• Beat & Counterculture site (by Larry Keenan; site started by Mary Sands /Jackmagazine)
• The Houseboat Summit (SF Oracle: Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsburg, Gary Snyder)
• Deoxyribonucleic Yippie!
• Nancho Resurgence (David Kubiak on changing the world)
• OneWorld (major umbrella site for social concern)
• IGC(PeaceNet, Econet, WomensNet)
• Planet Drum Foundation (Peter Berg's bio-regional headquarters)
• Multinational Monitor On-Line
• Union of Concerned Scientists (Environment, and formidable arms control experts)
• World Transformation
• EDGE (serious questions, notable answers)
• Overview of World Religions Project
• Jay Kinney's Homepage (Editor of Gnosis, formerly with Whole Earth Review)
• The Noam Chomsky Archive
• The Flag-Burning Page
• Earth Day Energy Fast
• DAILY BLEED: Recollections' "Anarchist Calendar of Eclectic Events, Public Secrets etc"
• The Hydrogen Bomb Homepage (from the"total index zone containing lists of everything")
• The Internet Infidels (more total nihilists living on hope)
• The history of social inventions (ideas that changed the world)
• Closeminded science (skeptics convinced of the importance of skepticism...)
• Center for World Indigenous Studies
• THE NONVIOLENCE WEB
• Horology - The Index ("Science of Timekeeping, Clocks and Watches...")
• The James Dean Parameters  (Robert Brady in Eclectica Magazine)
• Corporate Watch: Facts/Comparative Demographics (the human race - who's winning, who's losing...)
• Medieval Sourcebook (illuminating documents)
• Mircea Eliade: From Primitives To Zen
• ARUNDHATI ROY: THE GREATER COMMON GOOD (A brilliant & angry essay challenging the political status quo)
• International Rivers Network
• d|i|s|i|n|f|o|r|m|a|t|i|o|n
• Creating Learning Communities
• La Vie Boheme (Larry Harvey on the Burning Man festival & more)
• Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung
• Evacuation and Internment of San Francisco Japanese -
• Fear Itself: Tanforan and Public Memory
• {fray} tell your stories
• Global Response (letter campaigns)

• Stone Bridge Press (excellent Japan-related books & other media)
• Shambhala Publications(reprinted KJ#25 Sacred Mountains of Asia as a book)
• Paradigm Publications (home of A Brief History of Qi, featured in KJ#51)
• Manoa (Booklike magazine with special theme issues -- University of Hawa'i series on Asia & the Pacific)
• The World of KENJI MIYAZAWA (Beloved Japanese social critic & storyteller)
• Quotes of the Day - archive
• Project Bartleby Archive (Classic books on-line)
• The On-Line Books Page
• A Loren Eiseley Reader
• Italo Calvino (Tribute page, stories, extracts, reviews, associated material)
• Recollection Used Books (Great Links: Books, Authors,  Radicals, Anarchism, etc)
• Blue Ear - Global Writing Worth Reading
• The Rejection Collection (Real-life rejection slips...)

Ode ("an independent magazine about people and ideas that are changing the world")

Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate (introductions to diverse excellent sites)

blogdex - the weblog diffusion index (A valuable meme tracker, in between the geek items)

AlterNet.org (Non-mainstream analysis)

CounterPunch (Hard-hitting, seriously alternative)

Working For Change

truthout

BuzzFlash

Ad-Busters(media models deconstructed)

SciTech Daily Review - science, technology, future developments, innovations, implications

International Progressive Publications Network Mainstream Media Watch, and Alternative Media Watch...

MediaChannel (watching the media)

This Modern World - by Tom Tomorrow (A must-read every Monday! Plus archive, blog, & TAP archive)

Paper Tiger Television

Whole Earth Review (still co-evolving after all these years)

Resurgence Magazine On-line (one of our favorite magazines & sanity restorers)

The MoJo Wire (Mother Jones)

Utne Reader(Utne Reader, home of the annual Alternative Press Awards)

Earth Island Journal (hard-hitting environmental coverage)

ZNet - Z Magazine's community of social concern

COLORS MAGAZINE (unlike any other publication, period.)

Jinn Magazine (Pacific News Service)

Inside China Today (very comprehensive resources)

i-Contact Video Network (video for Positive Change: record - reflect - represent)

Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

Aril / CrossCurrents (excellent source on world religions)

Web Del Sol, New Poetry and Fiction

The Hoot (Indian media watch site "The more the media matters, the more we must track what it does")

The American Prospect Online (see KJ contributor Noy Thrupkaew's work here!)

 EarthLight Magazine

New Renaissance a magazine for social & spiritual awakening

 

Yahoo! JAPAN (useful for searches, but need Japanese browser for full effectiveness)

Personal Currency Assistant (currency converter)

Metric Converter

VirtualTourist.com: Timezones

Japan Calendar

Japan Statistics

PriceCheckTokyo

Furu's Japanese Era Converter

Sun, moon, stars, time

CNN.com - Weather- Kyoto , Japan