Japanese Current Affairs

Asahi Shimbun is part of a "multimedia corporation of the new millennium". The on-line newspaper section has a number of current report about Japan and world events affecting Japan.
[Site reviewed: 1999-11-28]

The Chubu region is centred around Nagoya in Aichi prefecture. Their local newspaper has a good web site which gives a view of life a regional centre. The site seems to be limited to 1997, but there is an archive for the whole year. The articles are available in both HTML and PDF formats.
If, like me, you have trouble accessing the archives you can enter the URL directly like this. The list of issues can be obtained by viewing the source of the main page.
[Site reviewed: 1998-11-22]

This site contains a large set of short biographies of assorted famous Japanese people. There are several hundred entries group into categories, mostly from popular culture ( pop music and TV ) and sports but there are some politicians and writes. More are being added all the time.
[Site reviewed: 1999-01-24]

Japan Echo is "An interactive Journal for Informed Opinion". It is published once every two months and contains English traslations of a variety of, mainly political, Japanese articles.
Each issue contains about a dozen aricles which are available in both HTML and PDF formats.
[Site reviewed: 1999-11-28]

This is a good site with lots of up to date new reports and editorials updated daily together with weekly summaries and an archive covering the highlights over the past few of years. There are also special sections on computers and other special topics.
[Site reviewed: 1998-11-22]

This looks far more like a normal newspaper. It is an English version of a Japanese on-line newspaper. It covers all the nitty-gritty of daily life from corruption to weird cults.
[Site reviewed: 1999-11-28]