Arranged alphabetically and thematically, this photo dictionary covers over 400 deities in Japan's Buddhist and Shinto pantheons and includes thousands of annotated photos of artwork from Japan's medieval period through modern times.

Advanced search interface for the complete Aozora Bunko digital library.

The Asia and the Eastern Pacific Rim in Early Prints and Photographs compiles digital reproductions of early albums, photographs, and prints in the collection of the New York Public Library.

Asian Historical Architecture is a photographic survey of Asian heritage, examining Asian architecture through images and descriptive text.

A visualization project exploring similarities and differences between U.S. and Japanese history textbook accounts of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Bibliography of Japanese History provides topical bibliographic lists of research on Japan from the ancient to Meiji periods.

The Harvard ChinaMap project visualizes a huge variety and volume of modern and premodern historical and statistical data sets to create map overlays.

The Chinese Foreign Policy Database curates 1000s of documents from Chinese and international archives, offering insights into China’s foreign policy since 1949 and its relationship to ideology, revolution, the economy, and traditional Chinese culture.

A small collection of rare propaganda papercuts from the Cultural Revolution, created in Guangdong Province.

The Chinese Text Project is the world's largest full-text digital library of pre-modern Chinese writing.

An online collection of over 1,500 Chinese propaganda posters from 1925 to the present. The Gallery features 200 highlights, from the collections of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, and Stefan R. Landsberger (University of Amsterdam, Leiden University).

Data on the total numbers of court ranks appearing in Shoku Nihongi, as well as information on the growth of the system over the forty volumes, or maki, of the chronicle. The raw data appears in a matrix developed in an MS Excel spreadsheet.

Digital archive of German art historian Dietrich Seckel's photo collection on wartime Japan (1936-1942)

The Digital Dictionary of Buddhism [DDB] is a compilation of Chinese ideograph-based terms, texts, temple, schools, persons, etc. found in Buddhist canonical sources.

DHAsia is a Digital Humanities initiative at Stanford University focused on East, South, Southeast, and Inner/Central Asia. It sponsors research, presentations, and workshops by faculty and graduate students on digital methods in the Asia field.

This program aims at mapping Japan’s most important literary places and providing detailed information on their historic, cultural, and poetic meaning.

Podcast on pop culture, media, related issues in modern East Asia.

Fe Doro Manchu Archery is a network for the promotion, research and practice of traditional Manchu archery featuring articles and media on the subject throughout history.

Formosa is a digital library hosted by Reed College that specializes in gathering early images, maps, and texts on Taiwan, which was called "Formosa" by foreign visitors in the 19th Century.

The Hachiman Digital Handscrolls project presents digital versions of Japanese illuminated handscrolls (emakimono) on the subject of the Hachiman deity created between the 14th and 19th century.

Heiji monogatari Scroll Viewer is digitization of the Heiji monogatari emakimono with an interactive display that explains visual content and historical background.

The Historical Photographs of China project locates, digitizes, and publishes online photographs of China held, largely, in private collections outside the country.

The Hoji Shinbun digital collection is currently the world’s largest online archive of free-access, full-image newspapers published by overseas Japanese and their descendants. All content reproduced in this collection is full-image with enhancements added where possible and render the text maximally searchable. The holdings of each title are also browsable by date, and each title is cross-searchable with other titles on the platform. This collection currently contains 14 newspapers published in

A growing collection of digitized posters, photographs, manuscripts, moving images, sound recordings, and other historical materials from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University.

Imaging Kantō is a digital humanities project as a digital complement to Gennifer Weisenfeld’s Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923 to archive, crowd-source, and exhibit images of the Great Kantō Earthquake and its Tokyo urban context in conjunction with important historical visualizations of data from the disaster and reconstruction process.

JAANUS is an online dictionary tool that contains approximately 8000 terms related to traditional Japanese architecture and gardens, painting, sculpture and art-historical iconography from approximately the 1st century A.D. to the end of the Edo period (1868).

Leading Japanese art history organization. Members access to bibliographies, research guides, other resources.

JAID is a project of the Five College Center for East Asian Studies that lists teachers and practitioners of Japanese traditional arts based in the United States.

Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire is a website accompanying PBS's series on Tokugawa Japan, featuring timelines, prints, maps, historical information, and tools for teaching about Tokugawa Japan in the classroom.

Database of Japanese Buddhist objects held in European Museums with images and object descriptions

Japanese Castle Explorer is an interactive map and photograph database of some 150 of Japan's surviving castles, castle remains, and castle reconstructions, including historical and tourist information.

The Japanese Historical Text Initiative is a digitized, searchable database of important Japanese historical documents and their English translations.

Japanese Law Translation is an unofficial site by Japan's Ministry of Justice that provides the translation of Japanese laws and regulations into foreign languages along with keyword searches and a dictionary database.

UBC Library's Rare Books and Special Collections holds one of the world's largest collections of maps and guidebooks of the Japanese Tokugawa period, ca. 1600-1867, with maps varying in both format and size: items range from small single-sheet maps to more than thirty square feet, and also include a ceramic plate, a woodblock, and maps in scroll format.

The Japanese Text Initiative is a collaborative effort to make premodern/modern Japanese literature texts available with original text, translations, and dictionaries available.

A database of Japanese woodblock prints collected from institutions around the world. Spans the 17th to 20th centuries. Includes a visual image search for finding prints.

The Joseph Berry Keenan Digital Collection comprises manuscript materials and photographs on the Japanese War Crimes Trial (1942-1947).

Small collection of medieval Japanese documents, with photos of originals, katsuji transcription, and some discussion of history of the documents, history of transcription, etc.

Korea and the World is a podcast that interviews academics, professionals and intellectuals living and working in South Korea on current political, economic and societal issues.

A small collection of maps of Korean city plans from the Korea U.S. Army Map Service, 1944-1946.

The East Asia Image Collection (EAIC) is an open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, rare books and slides documenting the history of imperial Japan (1868-1945), its Asian empire (1895-1945) and occupied Japan (1947-52). Images of Taiwan, Japan, China, Korea , Manchuria, and Indonesia.

The Laures Kirishitan Bunko Database is the electronic catalogue of rare books pertaining to Japan and its international global interactions contained in “Kirishitan Bunko” edited by Johannes Laures, S.J. as well as added material after the publication, stretching from the sixteenth to twentieth century and produced in a variety of languages.

Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki--Messages from Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) is a website that makes available to the public first-hand accounts written by those who experienced the attacks.

“Japanese Old Photographs of the Bakumatsu-Meiji Periods” at the Nagasaki University Library is the largest collection of old photographs, approximately 7,000, taken all over Japan from the Bakumatsu (1853-1867) through to the Meiji period (1868-1912).

Old Photos of Japan is a curated collection and photoblog of photos from the Meiji, Taisho, and early Showa periods, roughly 1860-managed by DUITS, a boutique journalism and stock photography agency in Tokyo.

The Online Resource for Japanese Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (ORJACH) is an English-language interactive tool for teachers and students interested in incorporating early Japan in teaching and learning across a range of subjects including history, geography, environment, cuisine and religious studies.

The Petzold scrolls collection is a collection of the Harvard-Yenching Library that includes 424 scrolls (primarily paintings, woodblock prints, calligraphy, and rubbings from Japan, but also some materials from China and Tibet) acquired from German-born scholar of Buddhism, Bruno Petzold (1873-1949) in 1951.

Re-Envisioning Japan is an open-ended, multimedia project based on an original collection of tourism, travel and educational ephemera that document personal experience, cross-cultural encounters, and changing representations of Japan and its place in the world in the early to mid 20th century.

Overview history articles on Okinawan history and culture.

The online collection of the Seoul Museum of History provides digitized versions of many important artifacts in its holdings, particularly related to modern military history.

This database contains photographs by Sidney Gamble (1890-1968), sociologist and China scholar who photographed everyday life and architecture in China as well as photos that he took of Korea, Japan, Hawaii, Russia and San Francisco. The site also includes an interactive map and filmed documentary of his 1924-1927 voyage.

Silk Road Seattle is an ongoing public education project using the "Silk Road" theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era (A. D.) to the 17th Century. It provided materials for learning and teaching about the Silk Road. Much is available here already: historical texts, well illustrated web pages on historic cities and architecture and on traditional culture of the Central Asian nomads, extensive annotated bibliographies of resources, an electronic a

A visualization project exploring themes in testimonial accounts from people who experienced the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan

All references to Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu (明實錄) (also known as the Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty), translated into English

A visualization project exploring themes of the body, time, and the physical world in testimonial accounts of hibakusha from the Hiroshima Archive

The Taketori Monogatari site is an online learning tool for understanding classical Japanese grammar and syntax using an interactive digital platform.

Teach 3.11 is a multi-language collaborative project that helps teachers, students, and scholars locate and share educational resources about the historical contexts of scientific and technical issues related to understanding large-scale disasters, such as the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters in Japan.

The China Biographical Database is a freely accessible relational database with biographical information about approximately 370,000 individuals as of April 2017, primarily from the 7th through 19th centuries. With both online and offline versions, the data is meant to be useful for statistical, social network, and spatial analysis as well as serving as a kind of biographical reference.