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Surname Searches and Queries

• General Japan GenWeb Queries

General Genealogy Resources

• Asia GenWeb
  • Japan GenWeb
    By Island:
    • Hokkaido
    • Honshu
    • Kyushu
    • Okinawa
    • Shikoku
• http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Garage/4464/Home.html
  Stuart Terashita's Japanese genealogy

• National Archives: In English
• Japanese American History Archives - an extensive, growing collection of books, periodicals, documents, maps, photographs, art and film relating to the Japanese experience in the United States from the mid-1800s, when the first Japanese pioneers set foot on American soil, to the present
• Japanese Town (San Francisco) Archives
• Common Japanese Surnames
• The Imperial Family Of Japan
• Japanese Americans on Oahu
• Executive Order 9066 - describes the evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii

Home Pages

• Bob and Fumi's Family Page - Doi and Yajima families
• Gapuz-Sato Family Home Page
• LC's Family Tree Relationship Chart - The Japanese Branch
• Ogasawara Clan Genealogy

Societies, Clubs and the Like

• National Japanese American Historical Society

Miscellaneous

• Japanese American Museum
• Japanese History
• Comparison of Japan and the West

Japanese Search Engines

I've tried several of these without much luck. You need to have the right settings on your computer for Japanese language and then again you need to be able to read Japanese language which I can't!

• Yahoo! - Japan
• Excite - Japan
• InfoSeek - Japan
• Japan Related Web Links - Search Engines
• Search Engines - In English
• Japanese meta-search engine
• Search Japan
• Acaranavi
• CSJ CyberSpace Japan
• Dokoda Search Engine
• Dragon
• Easy Search(English) - Not all that easy!
• Gateway Japan
• Goo
• Infonavi Infoweb
• J-LINKS Meta Index
• Netscape - In Japanese
• Nippon Search Engine
• Odin - from University of Tokyo
• OpenText Japan
• Rcaau Search Engine (Kyoto U.)
• Senrigan Search (Japanese)
• Senrigan Search (English)
• Titan
• JAPAN Zip Search Engine

Some additional excellent resources for your research are:

• Interment.net ~ Cemetery Transcriptions on the net.

• Ancestry.com ~ A huge compilation of databases some of which are free and some of which require a paid subscription.

• Kindred Konnections ~ Search the World's Largest Pedigree-linked Database.

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