Useful Digital Archives
Japan
Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948-1951: A Personal and Professional Memoir
Bennett, John W.
http://library.osu.edu/projects/bennett-in-japan/about.html
Hiroshima Archive [In English and Japanese]
Description: "'Hiroshima Archive' is a pluralistic digital archive using the digital virtual globe 'Google Earth' to display on it in a multilayered way all the materials gained from such sources as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, the Hiroshima Jogakuin Gaines Association, and the Hachioji Hibakusha (A-bomb Survivors) Association. Beyond time and space, the user can get a panoramic view over Hiroshima to browse survivors’ accounts, photos, maps, and other materials as of 1945, together with aerial photos, 3D topographical data, and building models as of 2010. The archive aims to promote multifaceted and comprehensive understanding of the reality of atomic bombing." (Description from http://hiroshima.mapping.jp/concept.html; A video demonstration can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-q00isamvs)
FNN News, The Great East Japan Earthquake Archive (Remembering 3/11)
http://www.fnn-news.com/en/311/articles/201103110059.html
Description (Taken from their YouTube channel athttp://www.youtube.com/user/FNN311)
"This is an official channel of Fuji Television's 28 affiliated stations collectively known as the Fuji News Network, or FNN. It comprises video relating to the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. Our aim is to preserve the memory of the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011 for future generations and provide valuable data that can be used toward subsequent relief efforts, the promotion of disaster prevention and emergency preparedness."
Great Kanto Earthquake Japan - photo collections
University of Hawai'i, Manoa
http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/earthquake/index.php?s=
The Great Kanto Earthquake 関東大震災写真集 site contains 199 images, which were scanned from black & white still photos matted on a black background. With a magnitude of 7.9 on the Richter scale it was the deadliest earthquake in Japanese history, and at the time was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the region.
Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era
University of British Columbia
http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/cdm4/index_tokugawa.php?CISOROOT=/tokugawa
Lafayette College Library East Asia Image Collections
The collection contains postcards from the Russo-Japanese War (see above), the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, the Michael Lewis Collection (colonial Taiwan), and many more places and times related to Imperial Japan.
"The East Asia Image Collection is an open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, and slides of imperial Japan (1868-1945), its Asian empire (1895-1945) and occupied Japan (1947-52). Images of Taiwan 台湾, Japan 日本, China 中国, Korea 朝鮮, Manchuria 満洲国, andIndonesia are included."
http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/eastasia
Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photograph Collection
University of Utah
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/az_details.php?id=89
The Modern Japanese Political History Materials Room of the National Diet Library "has striven to collect, organize and display primary historical sources (letters, diaries, documents, manuscripts, etc. that belonged to politicians, bureaucrats, et al.) related to the political history of modern and contemporary Japan."
http://www.ndl.go.jp/modern/e/index.html
Research & Information Center for Asian Studies: "Japanese Politics and International Relations"
The University of Tokyo
http://ricas.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/database/index.html
Tsubokura Collection, Russo-Japanese War Postcards (Lafayette College Library)
"These 105 picture postcards were purchased as an album that appears to be
correspondence"from the battleground " by one Tsubokura Monnosuke to Tsubokura
Jirò both of whom resided in Yotsuya Ward, Tokyo.
http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/eastasia#pa-tsubokura
"The World and Japan" Database Project
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
"'The World and Japan' database project consists of four under construction databases funded by grants-in-aid from Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (Monbukagakusho) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(Nihongakujutsushinkoukai)."
http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~worldjpn/front-ENG.shtml
Visualizing Cultures [1849-1945]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html
The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: A Digital Exhibition
University of Virginia Law Library
http://lib.law.virginia.edu/imtfe/
Alfred Hussey Collection: Japan's Constitution Slides:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hussey1ic
Alfred Hussey Collection: Japan's Constitution Photo Album:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hussey2ic
Japanese Americans
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2010/gaman/
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, digital archive video oral histories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated or interned during World War II, Japanese-American internment stories
Go For Broke National Education Center: Preserving the Legacy of the Japanese American Veterans of World War II
http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/oral_histories_video.asp
Hawaii War Records Depository Photos
"The Hawaii War Records Depository (HWRD), which was established at the University of Hawaii Library in 1943, is an extensive collection of materials that document life in Hawaii during World War II."
http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/hwrd/index.php?c=1
The Japanese American Archival Collection (JAAC)
"ImageBase presents about 1400 images in a searchable database of selected photographs and images of artifacts related to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. "
http://digital.lib.csus.edu/jaac/
Japanese American Exhibit & Access Project
"The Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project was created in 1997 to provide access to UW Libraries projects related to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. "
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/
Japanese American National Museum [Ranges from immigration to post-internment]
"[F]eaturing selected highlights from our permanent collection of over 60,000 unique artifacts, documents, and photographs. "
http://www.janm.org/collections/
JARDA: Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
University of Hawaii
"Personal and official photographs, letters and diaries, transcribed oral histories, art, and more show the faces of: People, Places, Daily Life and Personal Experiences"
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/
A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/collection/index.html
Society and Culture Digital Collection [Japanese American internment]
University of Washington
http://content.lib.washington.edu/socialweb/index.html
Topaz Museum [Japanese American internment]
University of Utah
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/az_details.php?id=39
War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf596nb4h0;developer=local;style=oac4;doc.view=items