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Sector-by-sector guide to Japan’s cultural scene, comprising informative overviews of each sector together with a detailed database of over 5,800 key agencies working in the Japanese arts, media, heritage, libraries, archives and tourism sectors. ENG | Libraries & Archives | 11/20/2010 | info | Review |
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Monthly web magazine for readers with an interest in Japan’s art scene and artists. With one of Japan’s most comprehensive art databases, artscape compiles up-to-date information about art events throughout Japan, presenting reviews of exhibitions and articles about art trends and artists. ENG, JPN | Visual Arts | 11/02/2010 | info | Review |
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Kobe Archives (神戸市文書館・Kobe Bunshokan) maintains maps, newspapers and other archival information of Kobe. JPN | Hyogo Museums | 08/12/2010 | info | Review |
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The National Film Center is part of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. ENG, JPN | Tokyo Museums | 12/14/2009 | info | Review |
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This small island in the Seto Inland Sea is part of Kagawa Prefecture. It features a large number of high quality museums, including two designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The island can be reached by ferry from Uno and Takamatsu ports. |
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Located in Tokyo’s Koganei City, this open air museum displays buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries. There are three sections, one of old, wooden Edo-Period buildings, one with a recreation of a typical street from the early 20th century, and a third with homes belonging to important people of great historical value. See some great photos. JPN | Tokyo Museums | 06/05/2009 | info | Review |
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The Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum features a fan shaped locomotive house with an impressive array of steam locomotives, a turntable used to turn the gigantic locomotives, numerous displays and the former Nijo Station House of the Meiji era. |
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The actual museum features well-displayed collections, though all in Japanese. Many documentary videos, a tree-bark weaving loom, dugout canoes, traditional huts and the Kayano Shigeru Ainu Memorial Museum. This houses the private collection of Kayana Shigeru, the first Ainu to be elected to the Japanese Diet. |
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This Kobe-based museum collects, preserves and exhibits carpentry tools from the past and conducts research, to convey to future generations the spirit and attitudes of traditional Japanese carpenters and blacksmiths. ENG, JPN | Hyogo Museums | 07/12/2008 | info | Review |
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The official site of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum at Waseda University, known as Enpaku (Engeki Hakubutsukan). CHN, ENG, FRA, JPN, KOR | Tokyo Museums | 06/29/2008 | info | Review |