JapanGenWeb - WorldGenWeb Project
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Looking for volunteers to help with this web site who can read Japanese. Contact me below.
- Japan at a Glance: Islands, Prefectures, and Cities
Maps and explanations of Japan's geography.
- Web sites about Japan
Includes links to maps of Japan, holidays, learning Japanese, etc.
- Personal Pages
Links to personal web sites with Japanese genealogy.
- Lookups
List of people who own records and are willing to do lookups.
- Genealogy Sites
Links to Japan National Archives, Japanese history, Japanese-American Historical Societies, and the Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild.
- Koseki
Family Registries in Japan. Excellent information provided by Debbie McMillan-Ito.
- Kakocho
Death Registries in Japan. How one person requested it and the results.
- JapanGenweb-L
E-mail list to discuss research in Japan.
- Prefectures of Japan
- General Queries for Japan
Post your queries here if you don't know the prefecture from which they came. General Japan obituaries are also here.
- Historical Queries
Queries containing a significant amount of historical information.
- Germans in Meiji Japan
Dr. Michael Rauck of Okayama University is doing broad research on all the persons from the German culture area (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland) who lived in Japan by the end of WWI, merchants as well as the so-called Oyatoi Gaikokujin (hired foreigners) etc. He can also provide information on certain persons free of charge, and also on Japanese students who were in the Germany cultural area during the same period. Any hint - information as well as enquiry - will be appreciated.
- About the WorldGenWeb Project
A history of the WorldGenWeb Project and its purpose.
- Download PAF 4.0
It's FREE! Click on "What's New?" in the upper left hand corner and scroll down to the PAF 4.0 download
The prefectures of Japan are up for adoption. If you are interested in adopting a prefecture of Japan, see the Adoption Page. 
Indicates that the prefecture has been adopted. For an alphabetical list with prefectural capitols listed, click here.
Prefectures by Island
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This page sponsored by Charlotte M. Meyer of Maquoketa, Iowa, USA,
assisted by Debbie McMillan-Ito
Last updated 23 August 2007
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