What's New in Japan, August 1995

August 31, 1995

OBAYASHI Corporation - "OBAYASHI on the Web!"
(Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo,Japan)
OBAYASHI Corporation (General constructor) have opened WWW pages "OBAYASHI on the Web!".

Internet gallery of images from the Kobe quake
(Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
From Sept. 1,The Mainichi Newspapers' Jam Jam homepage will introduce in its Photo Gallery section featuring select photographs of the Great Hanshin Earthquake. Twenty-four images,chosen from tens of thousands of scenes recorded by Mainichi photographers,depict the devastation wreaked by the worst temblor in Japan in 70 years, and the survivors' struggle to piece together their shattered lives. CD-ROMs featuring the photos and other information about the killer quake will be available shortly after the new service begins.

Architect Kisho Kurokawa's Home Page
(Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Architect Kisho Kurokawa is interested in your opinions, suggestions and ideas regarding his recent Eco-Med\ ia Project.

JNTO INTERNET INFORMATION SERVICE
(Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo,Japan)
JAPAN TRAVEL UPDATES, the Internet Homepage of Japan National Tourist Organization, covers a wide range of information on budget travel ideas, such as reasonable accommodations and dining, suggested itineraries, annual cultural events, regional tourist information and convention calendars along with much more. The service also provides a means for users to exchange their own Japan travel experiences.

Ukiyo-e Museum Nagoya TV Server
(Nagoya-shi, Aichi, Japan)
Nagoya Television has opened an Ukiyo-e Museum on line. This easy,readily usable home page features easy to understand explanations and high quality images through three levels of brilliance. Tune in glimpse of Edo period culture and customs.

Avis Home Page
(Nagano-shi,Nagano,Japan)
A home page on Nagano Prefecture which provides information on sightseeing, culture, nature, winter Olympic, industry and etc. This home page is maintained by the network service provider Avis.

Inter Fukui
(Fukui-shi, Fukui, Japan)
Inter Fukui OPEN !! This WWW server introduces sightseeing infomation and statistics infomation of Fukui prefecture. In Fukui, 1995 World Gymnastics Champion ships in Sabae be held during the period from 1(SUN) to 10(TUE) October,1995. We wish this ivent success.

Internet Access Providers for Japan
(Coventry, West Midlands, England)
Net surfing at home? Get your enterprise wired to the internet? This site provides a comprehensive index of internet access providers (50 entries), plus information on their pricing structures, access points location and contact details.

The Internet Comic Market
(Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Do you love to read comics? This page , " The Internet Comic Market " , introduces to you the superb works of Japanese comic geniuses. Do please come and enjoy the works. They will no doubt get you stunned ! And you can also put your original works on this page. Someday , this place will become the intersection of comic lovers from all over the world.

Home Page of Aichi Science and Technology Foundation
(Aichi, Japan)
Our Foundation was founded on September 1 in 1994 as the predecessor of "Aichi Academic Zone (tentative name)" promoted by Aichi Prefecture. We hope, receiving industrial, academic, and governmental supports, to promote research exchanges on science and technology, to promote co-operative research, to offer useful information, to train capable staff, and to support small and medium-sized enterprises. And our aim is to send out newly created sciece and technology to the world and at the same time, to develop the economy of this area. Now we open experimental WWW server with the help of Tokai Internetwork Council.

Cahier de Himiko
(Cambridge/Boston, MA, USA)
Japanese e-zine by Motoko Kawasaki in Boston. Features Fiction comme Non-fiction (half diary, half fictional story series), Chouchou de Himiko, etc. Might be intresting for those who are learning Japanese.

August 30, 1995

Otanoshimi Page R
(Nagoya-shi, Aichi, Japan)
"Otanoshimi Page R" is collention of funny pages. Interactive Web Games (3d-tic tac toe,cubic maze,etc.) and information of SegaSaturn(Sorry written in Japanese) are available in this page. Please visit and enjoy .

Japan Indonesia Friendship Festival '95
(Jakarta, Indonesia)
JAPAN-INDONESIA FRIENDSHIP FESTIVAL '95" will start from 3(Tue) to 29(Sun) October 1995. During the period, from 4 (Wed) to 15(Sun) October, a public exhibition and public performance are scheduled to be held in the main venue, Jakarta Fair Ground Kemayoran, Central Jakarta.

August 29, 1995

Real Natural Goods
(Shibuya-ku,Tokyo,Japan)
This page introduces the unique and convenient goods which harmonize to nature and environmentary safe. Main goods are made by using photovoltaic cells such as Camping lantern, Garden lights etc,. We will continue to introduce you unique and excellent goods in the future.

I-cubed Web: WWW extention service
(Toshima-ku,Tokyo,Japan)
NTT International Corp. totally supports your World Wide Web activities. Please refer www.i3web.ntti.co.jp for more detail.

The latest medical commentary with MRI image data etc. by Dr.Nagasaka
(Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, Japan)
The latest medical commentary with MRI image data etc. by Dr.Nagasaka (Ogaki town, Hiroshima prefecture) This web is presented by Fukae Nagasaka Clinic in beautiful Setonaikai island: Etajima near famous Hirosima city in Japan. For your health, please visit here
often and read "The latest medical commentary with MRI image data etc. by Dr. Nagasaka." (MRI equipment is, so to speak, human body sectional image making & processing equipment.) There is Dr. Nagasaka's "SOS Consultation Corner" too, on this web. The introductions of The past Imperial Naval Academy (The today's Japan Maritime Self Defense Force Service School) and Etajima town, Ogaki town
are included in this web. Please enjoy!!!

Iso Garden and Shoko-Shuseikan Historical Museum
(Kagoshima-shi, Kagoshima, Japan)
It's passed 800 years since the first Lord, Tadahisa SHIMADZU. In here, you can look in all spirits of Shimadzu Family. You can enjoy the beautiful Iso Garden and National Cultural Asset Shoko-Shuseikan Historical Museum. Shimadzu Kogyo Co., Ltd. and Kagoshima Univ. (Faculty of Eng., HAKURAKU Lab.)

Kochi Yosakoi Matsuri Festival WWW Page
(Sumida-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Kochi Yosakoi Matsuri WWW Page is updated as 1995 version. I picked up some photographs to show you what the festival is. It was very exciting. Please enjoy!

DIGITAL CONVERGENCE 95
(Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
The word "convergence" means to meet at a point--for example, just as when light rays converge at a point in a lens. The light is condensed and converted to thermoenergy. Likewise, when weak radio waves from vastly distant space are collected and converged at a point by a parabola antenna, it becomes possible to analyze data of stars billions of light-years away, and to discover new realities. The concept of multimedia encompasses a plethora of applications which are intended to dramatically change our lives, including the Internet, the information superhighway, DTP, CD-ROMs, digital video discs, among others. All of these tend to converge together. When the combined energies of this multitude of activities are merged and converged towards in a digitalization, a digital society is different from society as we know it will emerge.

NTT Syscom Co., LTD.
(Nagoya-shi,Aichi,Japan)
Sorry.We have japanese version only.English version is now creating.

THE CHUBU WEEKLY ONLINE
(Nagoya-shi,Aichi,Japan)
The Chubu Weekly is a bi-weekly English publication which serves the central region, mainly Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya City where it is produced. The Chubu Weekly is the most timley news source in the area for an ever-increasing foreign population. IMSUT Pathology Homapage
(Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Department of Pathology, the Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo is one of the most active laboratories of hemato-pathology and molecular pathology in Japan. This home page consists of information of members, research activity, news, etc. Journal contents of " Pathology International" are also contained.

August 26, 1995

TOKYO ROCKIN'
(Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo,Japan)
TOKYO ROCKIN' VOL.005---Bi Weekly ON-LINE-MAGAZINE,featuring Japanease street culture--now come out!! The contents of TOKYO ROCKIN' VOL.005 is as follows. THE LEGENDARY ALIEN(interview)--KENZABUROU OHE AND JYUZO ITAMI./INTERNATIONAL USELESS(new corner)--JON,woman of unique talent in music.Why is she called "USELESS WOMAN"?//SPACE TRAVOLTA IN DUB(funky attraction)--WORLD WIDE FACE MAGIC chapter 3.//TOKYO PANORAMA VIEW(movie file)--SCRAMBLE CROSSING(maybe I'm wrong in grammer) in SHIBUYA. Going across this point is at highly risk attempt. And so on. The next issue will be avilable on the other Monday(9/4)16:10GMT.Don't miss it!!!

HIRO & Associates, Inc.
(Toshima-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
HIRO & Associates, Inc.(Hiroyuki Misobe, Certified Real Estate Appraiser-Japan, CRE-USA), a real estate appraisal/consulting firm in Tokyo, Japan. Over 12 years, we have specialized in working for foreign clients in various real estate decision making process in Japan.

Fuji International Productions(UK) Ltd.
(London, UK)
Fuji International Productions(UK) Ltd. has just started Japanese music chart HEY!HEY!HEY! Also we have Gota Yashiki, CHAGE AND ASKA, SUMO Pages. Please come and see!

August 25, 1995

Nagasaki Peace Declaration
(Nagasaki-shi,Nagasaki,Japan)
Nagasaki City declares the determination to strive for the realization of world peace on every August 9 , the memorial day of the atomic bombing. In the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the city's bombing this year , we have started providing information utilizing the World Wide Web(WWW) on the Internet to appeal for the Nagasaki Peace Declaration widely. We would be grateful if you would link our home page to your home page so that more and more people could access to our home page. You will be highly appreciated.

Shikoku National Industrial Research Institute (SNIRI)
(Takamatsu-shi, Kagawa, Japan)
SNIRI is carrying out researches mainly in the field of marine resource development.

Web Personals
(San Francisco, CA, USA)
Looking for CyberRomance, MetaFriendship, or just some new Emates? Our site has thousands of web-based personal ads with photos from all around the world. We also have a Japanese version of the site available if you go to our more information page. It's a great place to surf if you want to read about and meet real people.

The Hanshin Nishi-Umeda Development
(Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan)
Coming in Osaka in spring 1997 We are introducing "Grobal Travel Marketplace" and recruiting tenants and gathering supply of various travel information on the third floor in Hanshin Nishi-Umeda(Umeda ^M West)Building

Shopping Area;120%Miracle&Mysterious Goods,GreenTea,SENBEI,etc. Documentary Area;About Senile Dementia...
(Kasuya-gun, Fukuoka, Japan)
The CUP can change taste in an instant!
The LIGHTER can change taste inaninstant ! Documentary area;About Senile Dementia..... You must be interested in this page and you must turn this page to good account !mail:houju@ppp.bekkoame.or.jp

DIS HOME PAGE
(Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Our home page can download about our company's information, recruit advertisement and evaluation version. Also we are posting of a DOJINDO Laboratories
(Kamimashiki-gun,Kumamoto,Japan)
Dojindo Laboratories manufactures and markets worldwide analytical and biochemical reagents with more than 800 products to serve researchers in scientific communities. Through its Home Page, researchers will get product infomation, including chemical properties and references. Also Dojindo welcomes questinaires about reagents.

Hale O' Wailele
(Honolulu, Hawaii, USA)
Hawaii's very first B&B(Bed & Breakfast) with Japanese Homepage! It is recommended for the repeaters who are tired of group tours and big resort hotels. You will be able to enjoy true Hawaiian vacations which you will never find in Waikiki and other resorts. Reservations are accepted online as well.

Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute
(Sapporo-shi,Hokkaido,Japan)

August 23, 1995

USE
(Tokyo, Japan)
U S E provides high-quality, low-cost English to Japanese Web Page translation services. Make your Page accessable to the large numbers of Japanese people joining the Internet every day.

On line gallery "YUBIYA"
(Sumida-ku,Tokyo,Japan)
We introduce you excellent art crafts with the artist's comments. Now, you will see "The world of Yutaka Naito." "YUBIYA" will open a on-line crafts shop in the near future.

CLASSICA - Classical Music News and Links
(Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Personal page for classical music fan. Links related to classical music, news, topics, and disc reviews. English page is under construction.

My-Net Personal Homepage Robot
(Tokyo, Japan)
The My-Net Robo is a Personal Robot who automatically builds your homepage for you! It doesn't matter who your Internet Service Provider is. People with text-only access such as CompuServe or First Class accounts are welcome to My-Net Robo as well! While on a trip abroad, you can still access your Robo. If you drop by the nearest networked cafe or office you don't even need a computer of your own! Any time you like, you just send ordinary e-mail to your personal Robo and it will add your message to the top of your homepage automatically; with this service you can start networking right away, even if it's your first time at a computer! For the easiest to use Internet in the world, try My-Net.

Japan Wildlife Festival '95
(Toyama-shi,Toyama,Japan)
This web site will provide information on the Japan Wildlife Festival until 31 September, 1995. Our goal is to help networking people's iterest in wildlife films and nature conservation. Realtime information will be provided during the festival; especially during the Grand Finale (27 August, 18:30JST), award winners will be announced promptly on this site.

August 22, 1995

First Prize:\1,000,000. "Cosmo Cosmic Dream Award"!!
(Minato-ku,Tokyo,Japan)
Cosmo oil.,Ltd.will hold the "Cosmo Cosmic Dream Award" in 1995 for people who wish to share their thoughts, imagination and dreams as well as wisdom that creates the future.

AJBB Home Page - Net Mobile Station
(Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo, Japan)
Able Japan Business Brains Inc. has delivered a web-site, AJBB Net Mobile Station. As a company, we already deal with 'interfaces' between; companies and consumers, and businesses and artists, we are announcing our new Mobile Station which can transport you into this international or borderless electronic field. High quality works of art by Yukinori Tokoro, computer aided imaginative photography, are introduced in the AJBB Theater, and novels by Keiho Shinjo, a hyper-textual novelist, can be found in the AJBB Library. Additionally in the Internet Square, we offer links to Kodak Photo CD World, PhotoCD Publishing Club, Sharp Duet Plaza and further items.

NAKATA Personal Home Page Magazine
(Sumida-ku,Tokyo,Japan)
is the on-line magazine only for personal home pages on Internet, not for home pages of companies or organizations.
All the home pages on this magazine are made by Japanese people at present. But this magazine is not only for Japanese people. I hope that many people of many countries read this magazine and contribute articles about their own home pages to this magazine. Almost all the parts of this magazine are written only in Japanese at preset. But even if you or your computer cannot read Japanese, I believe that you can enjoy this magazine. Thank you.

Tomio Quik Byte Translation (TQByT)
(Fort Lee, NJ, USA)
If you ever needed a fast, accurate English & Japanese translation, typesetting and copywriting, just think of us! TOMIO QUIK BYTE TRANSLATION (TQByT) invites you to the whole new dimension in solving your language needs via Internet ... It's easy, it's economical. Come take a quick bite at us !!

Technical Support co. home page
(Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Technical Support co. is ProAudio maintenance workshop. Consultant recording studio,Making of custom equipment,maintenance of pro audio gear.

August 21, 1995

Tsuuhan Link
(Honolulu, Hawaii, USA)
Internet Shopping Provider handling only unique items to Japanese Cosumer by Fax and Credit Card.

The Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Limited (DKB)
(Tokyo,Japan)
The WWW home page for DKB - one of Asia's premier financial institutions - is now open. Presented in an accessible and user- friendly format, information ranging from business reports, news of banking activities, customer services and the latest economic updates will all be available.

American Consulate Osaka-Kobe Web Page
(Osaka-shi,Osaka,Japan)
The American Consulate Osaka-Kobe Web page is one portion of a larger site dedicated to providing information to foreign residents of the Kansai. At this site you can find most of the information available at the Consulate, including details on how to marry in Japan, information on Green Cards, U.S. passport renewals and the like.

BOB & ANGIES'S KITCHEN
(Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan)
Japanese recipe database is renewedly open. Enjoy 600 recipe database accumlated in Osaka Gas Cooking School over 60 years.

August 20, 1995

SOCIUS Homepage: References for Beginners and Dilettanti in Sociology and Social Studies (in Japanese)
(Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
SOCIUS Homepage is References for Beginners and Dilettanti in Sociology and Social Studies in Japanese.

Home Page of the Republic of Cameroon in Japan
(Himeji-shi, Hyogo, Japan)
General information about the Republic of Cameroon, provided in japanese by Embassy of the Republic of Cameroon in Japan. The information is served with the aid of the Information Science Center, Himeji Dokkyo University, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan.

August 18, 1995

Corporate Information Bank
(Tokyo, Japan)
Because of the strong interest expressed by global portfolio managers in learning more about the management philosophy and financial information of Japanese companies, Daiwa intends to provide a new corporate information service, "Corporate Information Bank" (CIB), which is expected to start on July 25, 1995.
The CIB will include specific information prepared for international distribution to Internet users worldwide, including investors interested in corporations and financial institutions throughout Japan. The information may include (1) Company Outline, (2) The President's Message, (3) Financial Summary, (4) IR Communications, and (5) What's New, among other items.

The primary purpose of the CIB will be to promote disclosure and communication between Japanese corporations and interested persons (including investment analysts and fund managers) and to promote the use of investor relations services and improve corporate communications by Japanese companies. The CIB will be for informational purposes only and not for the purpose of soliciting or transacting actual business. It will be available in English to Internet users worldwide.

LMS Music Discography
(Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Discography of LMS Music, known with musics of video game; "ROBO Aleste" and "Puyo-Puyo". You find contents of sound tracks, etc.

" ALLES " internet voice magazine vol.3
(Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan)
" ALLES " is an interview magazine that let everyone in the world listen to the live voices of people who create the scene of Japanese Culture in various fields. The theme of this issue is "Sound Vibrations". We pick up Japanese sound-artists. featuring artists are Shonen Knife;the rock n' roll band, Hiroyuki Isso; the Noh flute player, and Meiwa Denki;the contemporary artists. The day of issue is the first at a month. ALLES magazine is produced by EXPRESS co.,ltd.

News Station "Questionnaire about nuclear testing by France"
(Tokyo, Japan)
TV Asahi is one of the major network stations in Japan,and our "NEWS STATION" is well-known news program. NEWS STATION would like to ask your opinions and comments on France's decision to resume nuclear tests starting in September on the Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific.

Maiko Itoh
(Tokyo, Japan)
Information from an actress Maiko Itoh.

August 16, 1995

Renew a GOTO college HOME PAGE
(Oota-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
The HOME PAGE of GOTO college of Medical Arts and Sciences were renewed at August 16. The New Page is a information of American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM). Please see it.

LINK LINK LINK
(Sumida-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Do you want your home page? We make your own homepage in Japanese or Roma-ji. You needn't have your WWW server. This page written in Japanese code now, sorry.

August 15, 1995

Sapporo City Home Page
(Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan)
Sapporo locates in the northern part of Japan and is the capital city of Hokkaido. Sapporo is famous for the Winter Olympic Game in 1972, the Sapporo Snow Festival and also the Sapporo Beer !! Our Home Page has links to the major servers in Sapporo and to our Cyber City named "OROPPAS". More than 400 of citizens, students, pupils, artists and photographers have joined in our "OROPPAS" project. The number of the items are 14,400 and the total size of the files is more than 1 Giga Byte. And our cyber city is still expanding !

GlobeLink International WWW Media Server
(Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A.)
GlobeLink International brings the world together by specializing in the internationalization of software and online media (WWW) between the languages of Japanese, English and French.

HORI's No Thinking Home Page
(Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan)
This is a home page for the collection of the WWW documents being created an collected by Masaaki Hori, who is a Japanese doctor and want to share the ideas of Mr.KunihiroYamate. THE WAY OF NO THINKING The book examines the increasing dysfunction of our modern social and economic structures, showing how they signal the end of the "human" era . Having unwittingly fulfilled a role as catalyst, we are now awakening from the "dream" of human culture and technology into full consciousness. Rationality or thinking is giving way to intuition. JAPAN HOLISTIC MEDICAL SOCIETY Introduction of the society's activities , in Japanese .

Misuzu's master index of Japanese Internet shopping malls
(Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A.)
This is Misuzu's master index of Japanese Internet shopping malls. On this page, there is also a link to Misuzu's master world index of online Internet shopping malls.

August 14, 1995

Mainichi Photo Gallery will open on Internet Aug.15
(Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan)
The photo gallery in the Mainichi Newspaper's Internet Services "Jam Jam" will open Tuesday,Aug.15. On disply will be 35 news pictures of major events in the 50 postwar year, which were selected from the hundreds of news photographs in the Mainichi Shimbun archive. The captions will be in English and Japanese.

Etsuko Ueda's Hometown connection
(Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A.)
What you will find in my WEB pages are quick information access to my hometowns (Sapporo, Japan and Huntsville, Alabama, USA), and a list of places that will help you keep up with what goes on in the two countries and in the people's minds. I plan to update as I find more interesting places to visit and some original materials become available. So, stay tuned for future additions.

August 13, 1995

Nokia Mobile Phones Asia Pacific and the Gulf
(Tokyo, Japan)
Nokia Mobile Phones Asia Pacific and the Gulf home pages. Play the Find the Boss contest and enter to win a FREE mobile phone. Corporate information, product information, and mobile phone facts.

CYCLE'S SQUARE
(Tokyo, Japan)
CYCLE'S SQUARE is reporting historical, cultural topics of the world (English and Japanese bilingual). Ancient World Club is for those who interested in ancient civilizations, Around the World includes small, interesting stories from all over the world.

Ishida Coporation Internet Shopping
(Suginami-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Ishida provide autique,secondhand goods and new articles with reasonable price.

August 12, 1995

WILLNET ONLINE
(Shibuya-ku,Tokyo,Japan)
WILLNET ONLINE is dedicated to presenting the information for creationg HTML.

SOFTIC SYMPOSIUM '95
(Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
November this year, we will hold an International Symposium (SOFTIC SYMPOSIUM '95) that will be centerd on the problems of intellectual property rights in the context of Information Networks. We'll hire some key persons who concerned with preparation for U.S., EU, and Japanese Green Paper as to GII and intellectual property rights, especially copyrights. If you are interested in our SYMPOSIUM, please refer to this link for detailed information.

The 6th International Symposium on Buckwheat
(Ina-shi,Nagano,Japan)
The 6th International Symposium on Buckwheat will be held at Shinshu University, Japan on August 24 - 29 1995. We are providing the information of this symposium and current buckwheat study.

Shopping Area:120%Miracle&Mysterious Goods,GreenTea,SENBEI,etc
(Kasuya-gun, Fukuoka, Japan)
The CUP can change taste in an instant! The LIGHTER can change taste inaninstant ! Documentary area, About Senile Dementia..... You must be interested in this page and you must turn this page to good account !

August 11, 1995

SEICHO (Student Environmental Internet Challenge Operation)
(Yokohama-shi,Kanagawa,Japan)
SEICHO (Student Environmental Internet Challenge Operation) is a multicultural environmental educational project, initiated by ISSHO KIKAKU, a non-profit organization of Tokyo-based foreign nationals. The project connects young people from all around the world who are interested and involved in environmental issues. By exchanging information, opinions, creative ideas regarding local environmental concerns, and by conducting joint researches, taking common actions, participants help each other to solve their local problems and together they work toward providing creative ideas for global solutions.

DIGITAL ART CONTEST
(Kyoto-shi,Kyoto,Japan)
"KYOTO INTERNET DE ASOBOUKAI" was the group made by Kyoto Education Commitee, Kyoto Broadcast Service Company, and other public organizations, had one event named "DEGITAL ART CONTEST". In this event, 39 children living in Kyoto tried to draw some pictures what they want to be or see the world in the future. And we could have 39 special fantasy-worlds of degital arts. So, we hope you to watch them and check the one you like best. Contest will be running until 20th August (Japan time).

Tokyo KaleidoScoop !
(Tokyo, Japan)
Japan's first news-oriented Internet station, Shima Media Network, is now powered-up and transformed into Tokyo KaleidoScoop (TKS). TKS's new lineup includes: Gateway to Silkroad to show previously-unknown faces of the Silkroad; Media Report from the West Coast; Mad World by Japan's top parodiest, Mad Amano, and many more! Of course, you will find our regular "Weekly Menu" in a more upgraded version. Last but not the least: we have opened up "Discussion Squre" for anyone interested in exchanging her or his views on TKS. Please join us. We look forward to seeing you on our new Tokyo KaleidoScoop!

CPU Collections
(Tokyo, Japan)
We provide CPUs for the lowest price in the World.

August 10, 1995

National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA)
(Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
NIRA is an independent policy research organization. Through this server, NIRA provides detailed information on its research activities and publications. Based on materials presented by NIRA's Center for Policy Research Information, this server also provides information on think tanks and other research institutes in Japan and the world, as well as a guide to the Saburo Okita Memorial Library, established in 1994 to support policy formulation and other research activities.

Hideki Noda's Motor-Homepage
(Tokyo, Japan)
Hideki Noda, a Japanese racing driver competed in F-1 and international F-3000 last year, opens his own Homepage. It must be the first Homepage of this kind (in Japan, maybe). By now he lost his seat accidentally for bankruptcy of the team he had a contract. He had been assigned to race in Formula 1 World Champions hip this year. HIDEKI NODA's MOTOR-HOMEPAGE invite his funs and sponsors to inform What is he doing and What's next.

Members of the Cabinet (1995/8/8)
(Musashino-shi,Tokyo,Japan)
The new Cabinet lineup of Japan formed on Aug. 8, 1995 is here.

Asahi Shimbun Newspaper
(San Jose, California, USA)
Asahi Shimbun, the leading national newspaper of Japan, has delivered the news to millions of readers worldwide with ink on paper for more than 100 years. Beginning in August 10th 1995 in Japan standard time, Asahi begins delivering its news and information to the world through the Internet. The service is available at the World Wide Web address of "http://www.asahi.com". The service is the first from a Japanese newspaper to dispatch Japanese news and information from a web server located in the United States. Asahi provides the latest news from everywhere in Japan, digests of news from Asahi Shimbun of the day, in Japanese, digests of news from Asahi Evening News, in English and press releases from major Japanese businesses, in both English and Japanese.

Himeji Institute of Technology Home Page
(Himeji-shi,Hyogo,Japan)
We have just started WWW services. You can get campus information of our Himeji Institute of Technology. We also like to serve useful information on our Hyogo Prefecture. Now you see the message from the Governor of Prefecture expressing thanks to all the people in the world for kind encouragement and assistance to the Hanshin Earthquake. We are waiting for your suggestions and comments.

August 9, 1995

An eye test
(Fujisawa-shi,Kanagawa,Japan)
How about an eye test ?

The Art Contest Sponsored by EST-1
(Osaka-shi,Osaka,Japan)
Please submit your work !
The Grand Prize award is certificate and 200,000 yen prize money, and the work will be placed on posters that will be found in various places of the EST-1 building.
Dead line is September 23.

NTT DATA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS CORPORATION Home Page
(Koutou-ku,Tokyo,Japan)
Here you can access NTT DATA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS CORPORATION's web server.
You can get a various information on our company such as Annual Report '94 and our products and services like Object Relational Database Management System "UniSQL" (In Japanese) or Graphic Art Software "Suisai"
By walking through "On Line Museum" (In Japanese), you can enjoy the powerful retrival on image database realized by combination of UniSQL and World Wide Web.

IEICE
(Tokyo, Japan)
IEICE, a non-profit technical organization in Japan, was established in 1911 to promote electronics, information and communication technologies. Since then, IEICE has been serving the members for the advancement of the profession, the well-being, etc. through workshops and many activities. IEICE is now one of the largest Japanese institutions in these fields.

Gaga Communications Inc.
(Tokyo, Japan)
In 1986 GAGA Communications was founded as an organization specializing in the >import of motion pictures from around the world. From those early days to the present, technological advances have further developed the worldwide media marketplace. To meet the demands of this rapidly changing market, GAGA has actively diversified and expanded its operation to become something quite new and unique to the entertainment industry, that of a "Producer with the Multi Media Mix." Welcome to GAGA!

Global Riders Meeting
(Tokyo,Japan)
The Global Riders Meeting is a concert tour on motorcycle across Japan, with some 40 performing artists from around the world sacrificing their time in an attempt to kindle a spirit of peace that may carry far into the 21st century. Cyber Technologies International's point cyber-reporter for this project is Volker Grassmuck, German journalist and sociologist who has long worked on advanced technical information and ideas with CTI's Kazue Kimura, and is now after 5 years of digital media studies at Tokyo University is returning temporarily to Europe. He has also worked closely with the Global Riders' organizer Shonosuke Okura, world reknown Japanese Noh drummer who has performed at the destruction of the Berlin Wall and before the Dalai Lama. Through the cooperation of artists and scientists, the team will broadcast timely reports from each stop on the tour, specifically covering Hiroshima and Nagasaki's participation in the 50th anniversary only half a year after the Kobe Earthquake, and the experiences of the Riders themselves. Check out other Peace links at CTI (Mega Nikki and HOPE among others) here.

August 8, 1995

Match.Com - "We met on the Net"
(San Francisco,California,USA)
Match.Com - Cyberflirting, email chemistry and online romance. Match.Com online personals is an entertaining and fun place to meet other singles by posting a profile, exchanging email and conducting personalized matches all anonymously. Come check us out and soon you'll be saying, "We Met on the Net!"

Tsurukame-do. How to make mizu-youkan
(Nagoya-shi,Aichi,Japan)
We sell Wagashi(Japanese confectionery) and teach you how to make Mizu-Youkan.

TOKYO ROCKIN'
(1 Sanbanncho, Chiyoda-Ku,Tokyo,Japan)
TOKYO ROCKIN' VOL.004---Bi Weekly ON-LINE-MAGAZINE,featuring Japanease street culture--now come out!! The contents of TOKYO ROCKIN' VOL.004 is as follows.
THE LEGENDARY ALIEN(interview)--KAZUO UMEZU,he is called comic artist of fear and gag.//INTERNATIO NAL USELESS(new corner)--KA-TOH-SA-NN,man of uniqu talent in music.Why is he called "USELESS MAN"?/TOKYO VANISHING POINT--the first apartment build in Japan is almost pulling down./SPACE TRAVOLTA IN DUB(funky attraction)--WORLD WIDE FACE MAGIC chapter 2./TOKYO PANORAMA VIEW(movie file)--TOKYO METROPOLIS EXPRESSWAY we call it TOKYO METROPOLIS "LOW SPEED WAY".And so on.
The next issue will be avilable on the other Monday(8/21)16:10GMT.Don't miss it!!!

School of East Asian Studies Web Pages
(Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK)
The School of East Asian Studies has put together a set of menus that are designed to help people get to links that are of interest to them. Due to the time that downloading graphics takes, we have not included any - this should help make these pages easy & quick to use for everybody around the world. All help & suggestions about layout & other new links are much appreciated & welcome.

August 7, 1995

GOTO college of Medical Arts and Sciences HOME PAGE
(Tokyo,Japan)
GOTO college of Medical Arts and Sciences is a technical college of Acupunctur\ e, Moxibustion, Acupress, Rehabilitation and Nursing. The HOME PAGE of GOTO college of Medical Arts and Sciences were directed at August 3. GOTO college is constructed by GOTO college of Medical Arts and Sciences, Tokyo School and GOTO college of Medical Arts and Sciences, Kanagawa school.

Schools in Japan
(Toyama, Toyama, Japan)
I made a new list of all Japanese School. It is covering from University to primary school in Japan . Could be you can find good academic sites or not?. Let you have a look and enjoy doing Internet-surfing. Thank you!

O-INFO "Japanese Orienteering Information Home Page"
(Nagoya,Aichi,Japan)
This is Japanese Orienteering Information Home Page. (in JAPANESE) We have a lot of Rinks about orienteering over the World.

ROSA LUXEMBURG
(Shinjuku-ku,Tokyo,Japan)
This is a home page for people who are touched off their feelings by the album "LIVE AUGUST" which was released in 1987 by ROSA LUXEMBURG (the most psychedelic rock music group in Japan),finding out their meaning of life in this album,believing a miracle that this music will be able to work,and then living through this world somehow or other.

The Kyushu University ENT Department Home Page
(Fukuoka,Fukuoka,Japan)
Home page of the ENT (Otorhinolaryngology) Department in Kyushu University presents the following information

Department of Shinshu University Hospital in Radiological Tecnology Information
(Matsumoto-shi Nagano Japan)
This Server is Radiological Tecnology Information for Radiological Tecnologist Members.Shinshu University Hospital Tecnology in this Server.Let's Radiological Tecnology know this Server Acsess.
Kochi Yosakoi Matsuri Festival WWW Page
(Sumida-ku,Tokyo,Japan)
Kochi Yosakoi Matsuri Festival WWW page renewedly opened. From August 9 to 11, the city of Kochi become the city of festival this year again. This page is provided as the part of T/Mori Internet Project. Please keep tuned these URLs.

position.com
position.com, Internet artist agency and fashion art magazine, is inviting the participation of Japanese authors and new model talents.

SAITOKU, Tokushima Home Page
(Tokushima,Tokushima,Japan)
We show you various informations of Tokushima. We also present you shopping arcade(now under constructing) and introducing our company SAITOKU. We have pages both in English and Japanese.

Awa Dance
(Tokushima,Tokushima,Japan)
"Awa Dance" is one of the most famous dance carnival in Japan. We introduce Awa Dance songs, yoshikono, and the map of performance zones, enbujyo, etc. In addition, we provide live images of Awa Dance with CU-SeeMe and snap shots on the Web page. More informations about this project, click here please.

August 4, 1995

Tanabata Today, 1995
(Miyagki,Japan)
"Tanabata Today, 1995" is the live report from the Star Festival of Sendai (a city in Japan), which runs for four days from August 5th to 8th. This festival celebrates the meeting, just once a year, of two lovers, a cowherd (the star Altair) and a weaving girl (Vega). This project is intended to explore the possibilities of new media. Internet is the largest computer network in the world, to which not only organizations but also individuals can join, and from which one can easily provide information. During this festival, we provide information of "Sendai Tanabata Festival" from our small digital station, hoping to realize the communication between information providers and receivers, as well as the communication among information receivers. We invite you to join our experiment in exploring the possibilities of new media.

HIROSHIMA
(Hiroshima,Japan)
Hiroshima-i Internet Group "Hiroshima" provides various unique informations, given by people in Hiroshima prefecture, and send them to all over the world. It is open to anyone who wishes to participate. We, Hiroshima-i Internet Group hope to cooperate with you,so that we can revitaIize the prefecture together.

Japanese Traditional Culture "IKEBANA"
(Chiyodaku,Tokyo,Japan)
The Sogetsu School has opened a home page for ikebana, Japanese traditional flower arrangement. This page will introduce Sogetsu School. Such topics as the history of ikebana and of the Sogetsu School will be presented. The activities of the School and Hiroshi Teshigahara, the headmaster of the School, are also planned for the Sogetsu home page. Exhibitions such as the Hiroshi Teshigahara show "BAMBU" in Milan, Italy, and "JAPAN TODAY" at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark are now being presened. The Sogetsu School hopes that you will enjoy our page and find it helpful and informative.

Toyohashi Christ Church
(Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan)
We are trying to find out the possibility of our ministry over the Internet. This Web Site is currently in development stage. Please give us a comment.

The Toyama ENT Department WWW pages
(Toyama, Toyama, Japan)
The Ear, Nose and Throat Department (ENT Dept) in Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University (TMPU) is dedicated to studying especially the inner ear and related components of dizziness/vertigo, hearing loss and tinnitus.

ANODIZERS' PLAZA
(Tokyo, Japan)
Introduction of Aluminum Surface Finishing in Japan.

World's first!?
(Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
HOT NEWS from online mag teleparc! Japan's first street-based Website, JapanEdge -- operated by students at the Kyushu Institute of Technology -- sends out Taishi Ichinose and Shuichi Kodama to HyperHitchHike down the California coast. From San Jose to Berkeley to San Francisco . . . crashing the WIRED office along the way . . . Today it's Bjork. Tomorrow, SIGGRAPH (tentative itinerary only). And their daily report, with free survival map, is right here at teleparc! Check it out! Everyday! CLICK! teleparc (produced by Fujitsu)

National Institute of Animal Health(NIAH) WWW
(Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan)
National Institute of Animal Health(NIAH) WWW server has be en updated to include the following additional information:

CJN, Central Japan Network
(Nagoya,Aichi,Japan)
" Kyoto Arasiyama Orgel Museum" home page is opened. We introduce some of automata-orgels with movies. Have a cool time with refreshing musics.

Kokusai Electric Co.,Ltd.
(Tokyo, Japan)
We (Kokusai Electric Co., Ltd. Toyama Works) are publishing the tourist information about "Owara Festival(from Sep. 1st from Sep. 3rd)".

IPP Ippongi News
(Bunkyo-ku,Tokyo,Japan)
This is IPPINGI BBS's news archive.This page will presents you wrestling related page, Worldwide Wrestling Web(WWW),etc.

Nagasaki
(Nagasaki,Nagasaki,Japan)
Fifty years ago on August 9th, the City of Nagasaki was destroyed by a single Atomic Bomb, which killed 74,000 people and injured another 75,000.Many of the injured still suffer from the aftereffects of radiation.

August 3, 1995

MITSUI FUDOSAN - REAL ESTATE COMPANY
(Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
MITSUI FUDOSAN - REAL ESTATE COMPANY presents general information regarding Japanese real estate from which you will also learn about the countrie's market of this area. It will serve for those who need not only real estate investment services but also real estate facility management services. We hope this will also informative for those who want to know Japan more.

JR2BJE's Home Page
My personal home page is ready to send , however only Japanese version. My original songs (midi-format) are open to the public.

Nozark Business Network Systems Homepage
(Shinagawa-ku,Tokyo,Japan)
Nozark International Inc. introduces to you the NOZARK Business Network Systems. It connects in the world, helping them exchange Information, develop business oportunities, and find business partners. In our home page, you will find basic information on Nozark group companies and the BNS services. Please call, fax or e-mail us for detailed information on Nozark International, Inc. and its Business Network Systems.

The City of Hiroshima
(Hiroshima-shi,Hiroshima,Japan)

An Exhibition of Japanese Modern Calligraphy & Pictures by Mukon Ohmori
(Shibuya,Tokyo,Japan)
A world renowned calligrapher MUKON OHMORI's exhibition is opened on fujita WWW. The same artist's exhibition is opened on Metrotel Malti-Media LTD.

August 2, 1995

Nakanishi Printing Co.,Ltd Home Page
(Kyoto-shi,Kyoto,Japan)
Nakanishi Printing Co., is one of the oldest printing companies in Japan. But we have many computer printing facilities.

Sony Drive
(Tokyo,Japan)
The Sony Corporation WWW server "Sony Drive" has been updated to include the following additional information: The Sony Drive pages are packed full of information about Sony. We look forward to serving you.

KARC
(Hyogo,Japan)
Kansai Advanced Research Center, Communications Research Laboratory, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Kobe, Japan. Serving Introduction of research sections, etc.

SAMURAI DOLL
(Mexico)
Our home page is located in the Mexplaza which is in Mexico and the first shopping mall in the mid-south America. Our homepage called SAMURAI DOLL, is selling these SAMURAI DOOLS. Usually, SAMURAI is not cute but this SAMURAI DOLL is so cute!!! Please drop by at our homepage and send us any comments(hopefully buy some dolls here.). See you on Mexico!!!

August 1, 1995

Ehime Prefectural Niihama Technical HIgh school
(Ehime,Japan)
Introduction of the School and the Local Community

"Jam Jam" opened from the Mainichi Newspapers to provide information
(Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo,Japan)
The Mainichi Newspapers has opened homepage "Jam Jam". We deliver news 5 times a day and advertising will start on regular bases from September 1. Major contents are the following: [Japanese Version] Today's Top News, Headline News, Photo Gallery=Photojournalism after WWII(Starts on Aug. 15) etc. [English version]Headline News, Mainichi Daily News, Photo Gallery(Starts on Aug. 15) etc.We will add contents as time goes on, intending to be a treasure box filled with various information.

"digit" InterActivity And Digital Art
(Minato-ku,Tokyo,Japan)
For five (5) days, we will be having an exhibition of Digital Art. Beginning from August 25, 1995. It will be held at the Spiral Hall, located in Aoyama Tokyo. We've dubbed it "digit", fundamentally from the word "digital". There will be the Internet Cafe with forty Macintoshes networked together to the Internet, as well as Digital Movies. We're all going to play together with BIG toys! "digit" will be collecting your various digital works. There will be no limits or constraints for our likely candidates: age; race; creed; sex and sexuality. Heck, even ex-convicts are welcomed with open arms!

Meisei university
(Tokyo, Japan)
This is Meisei university Home Page. Ome Campus Home page is here. Ome-City infomation is click here.

Japan Marine Science and Technology Center(JAMSTEC)
(Yokosuka-shi,Kanagawa,Japan)
It outlines the JAMSTEC Center and the Japan - U.S.A. joint research project of MODE'94 and the submersible "Shinkai 6500" with photographs. It also contains pictures obtained through deep sea research and gives description on support vessels and remotely operated vehicle specifications with many photos.

Sendai City Home Page
(Sendai-shi,Miyagi,Japan)
WWW server of Sendai City is open. Contents of this server is following: Greeting from Mayor, Sightseeing Information, Staff of Sendai City, and Tchaikovsky Competition for young musicians

Yamanashi Medical University
(Tamaho-cho,Yamanashi,Japan)
Yamanashi medical university now opens the home page. It contains our university profile, information and the Mt. Fuji photo gallery. Please enjoy Mt. Fuji photography.

Japan Down Syndrome Network WWW Home page
(Tsukuba-shi,Ibaraki,Japan)
We would like to welcome you to the Japan Down Syndrome Network (JDSN) Home Page.JDSN is an on-line center dedicated to information and communication relating to Down syndrome in Japan and worldwide. We have developed these pages for you: Parents of children with disabilities and persons in professional occupations relating to Down syndrom. We hope you find information on the new pages helpful.
This on line network was established by Ibaraki Down Syndrome Association. The central office of the association is in Tsukuba Scientific city, Ibaraki, Japan.

TOKYO ROCKIN'
(Tokyo,Japan)
TOKYO ROCKIN' VOL.003---Bi Weekly ON-LINE-MAGAZINE,featuring Japanease street culture--now come out!! The contents of TOKYO ROCKIN' VOL.003 is as follows.THE LEGENDARY ALIEN(interview)--SHONEN KNIFE,representing Japanese INDIES SCENE/DAVID BLAIR--ex.Wax Web.He is shooting his next movie in Japan. KI FOR NETWORKERS(the originator of se-ii-ta-ii-on the net)--ASK YOUR BODY new stage. NET MANIACS(cult shop map)--LOFT PLUS ONE.SPACE TRAVOLTA IN DUB(funky attraction)--WORLD WIDE FACE MAGIC.TOKYO PANORAMA VIEW(movie file)--TOKYO WANGAN.Seaside of TOKYO.And so on. The next issue will be avilable on next Monday(8/7)16:10GMT.Don't miss it!!!