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Search Engines : Japan

This pathfinder includes information about search engines in Japan.

Created and maintained by the
 Asian Division
Collections and Services Directorate


ASIACO, The Asia Search Engine  (http://search.asiaco.com/Japan/)
With 17 categories from Arts and Humanities to Travel, the Japan pages offer links to a wide variety of Japanese subjects.

Computing Japan Online - ISPs in Japan  (http://www.cjmag.co.jp/resources/providers/providers.html)
Lists internet service providers in Japan.

Discovering Japan through the Internet  (http://www.cybercypher.com/japan/)
This site assists with finding information about Japan on the web. Links to government, education, economy, radio, television, modern music, tourism, religion, food, language, and more.

Excite  (http://www.excite.co.jp/?a=a)
The Japanese version of Excite includes stock information, news, directories, shopping, maps, and more of the kinds of info. you expect on a search engine.

Gateway Japan  (http://www.gwjapan.com)
Gateway allows you to search information related to Japanese culture in its classified pages which are updated weekly.

Google Nihongo  (http://www.google.com/intl/ja/)
The google search engine in Japanese.

Index to Resources on Internet / インターネット学術情報インデックス  (http://resource.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/iri/url%5Fsearch.cgi)
Compiled at Tokyo University, (東京大学附属図書館・情報基盤センター), this internet guide divides sites by categories in Japanese. It lists the number of sites by category next to each category.

JIN - Japan Information Network  (http://www.jinjapan.org/navi/)
Includes links to current news, society, mass media, travel and leisure, education, foreign governments, government, nature, culture, science and technology, business and economy, and Japanese information resources in the world.

Japanese Search Engines  (http://www.atrium.com/cgi-bin/banner/display.pl?h=search)
A comprehensive guide for searching and nagivating using Japanese search engines. It includes both English and Japanese Search Engines.

Lycos Japan  (http://www.lycos.co.jp)
The Lycos Japan search engine allows you to search by topics, services, news, weather, and more.

Nikkei Goo  (http://nikkei.goo.ne.jp/)
"Nikkei Goo" uses the Goo search engine to display articles in Nikkei newspapers and articles in 26 magazines with coverage dating to 1990.

Super Genji (Murasaki Shikibu) / スーパー源氏 (紫式部)  (http://www.murasakishikibu.co.jp/oldbook/sgenji.html)
This site is a search engine for old and out-of-print Japanese books. Users can purchase books directly through the website.

Yahoo! - Japan  (http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Japan/)
A basic search engine for Japan.

goo  (http://www.goo.ne.jp/)
This is a Japanese search engine similar to Altavista in that web pages can be searched by keyword.

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  September 19, 2005
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