visual culture - Japan (via MIT)

Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan  (1853-1854)  by John W. Dower
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/black_ships_and_samurai/index.html

Black Ships &Samurai ll
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/black_ships_and_samurai_02/

Visual Narratives
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/black_ships_and_samurai_02/index.html

Yokohama Boomtown - Foreigners in Treaty-Port Japan (1859-1872) by John W. Dower
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/yokohama/index.html

Felice Beato's Japan: Places. An Album by the Pioneer Foreign Photographer in Yokohama. Essay by Allen Hockley  
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/beato_places/index.html

Felice Beato's Japan: People. An Album by the Pioneer Foreign Photographer in Yokohama. Essay by Allen Hockley
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/beato_people/index.html

Globetrotters' Japan: Places. Foreigners on te Tourist Circuit in Meiji Japan. Essay by Allen Hockley
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/gt_japan_places/index.html

Globetrotters' Japan: People. Foreigners on te Tourist Circuit in Meiji Japan. Essay by Allen Hockley
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/gt_japan_people/index.html

Throwing Off Asia l. Woodblock Prints of  Domestic “Westernization (1868-1912) by John W. Dower
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_01/index.html

Throwing Off Asia ll. Woodblock Prints of the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) by John W. Dower
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_02/index.html

Throwing Off Asia lll. Woodblock Prints of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) by John W. Dower
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/throwing_off_asia_03/index.html

Asia Rising. Japanese Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) by John W. Dower
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/asia_rising/index.html

Yellow Promise. Foreign Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) by John W. Dower
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/yellow_promise_yellow_peril/index.html

Selling Shiseido l. Cosmetics Advertising &Design in Early 20th-Century Japan. Essay by Gennifer Weisenfeld
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/shiseido_01/index.html

Selling Shiseido ll. Cosmetics Advertising &Design in Early 20th-Century Japan. Visual Narratives
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/shiseido_02/index.html

Selling Shiseido lll. Cosmetics Advertising &Design in Early 20th-Century Japan. Image Galleries
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/shiseido_03/index.html

Tokyo Modern l. Koizumi Kishio's 100 Views of the Imperial Capital (1928-1940). Essay by James T. Ulak
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/tokyo_modern_01/index.html

Tokyo Modern ll. Koizumi Kishio 100 Views. Annotations Gallery
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/tokyo_modern_02/index.html

Tokyo Modern lll. 100 Views by 8 Artists (1928-1932). Image Galleries
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/tokyo_modern_03/index.html

Ground Zero 1945. Pictures by Atomic Bomb Survivors. Essay by John W. Dower
Ground Zero 1945: A Schoolboy's Story

http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/groundzero1945/index.html

Testimony of Akihiro Takahashi. Illustrations by Goro Shikoku
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/groundzero1945_2/index.html

all about Okinawan Studies

International Institute for Okinawan Studies (IIOS) at
University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan.
 
"A hub research institution in the Asia-Pacific region beyond boundaries: Looking at the global from Okinawa's local perspectives.
IIOS is an interdisciplinary institution that integrated research centers at UR, aiming to develop multifaceted and international research projects on Okinawa and related areas."
 
includes:
* Contemporary Okinawan Studies [incl. contents of the launched in 2010
Japanese language 'International Journal of Okinawan Studies' (IJOS)
http://www.iios.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/IJOS_pub/
 
*A bi-lingual (JP,EN) site. In Nov 2010 the English language section of the site was under construction
at http://www.iios.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/en/