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For general Rurouni Kenshin information, please try the Rurouni Kenshin Links at the Anime Web Turnpike
Rurouni Kenshin Translations:
Maigo-chan's RuroKen Manga Translations
http://users.deltanet.com/~newcomb/ruroken.htm

Serizawa Kamo's Translations Page
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/stanford/130

OAV Scripts:

OAV 1
http://members.tripod.com/~AnimeWest/scripts/kenshinova_01.txt

OAV 2
http://members.xoom.com/Yukishiro/ova2.txt

OAV 3
http://members.xoom.com/Yukishiro/ova3.txt

OAV 4
http://members.xoom.com/Yukishiro/ova4.txt

Pages on Japan in general: 

KYOTOday
http://www.pref.kyoto.jp/index_e.html

Japan Today
http://www.jinjapan.org/today/index.html

Japan Travel Updates
http://www.jnto.go.jp/sitemap.html

Hello Net Japan
http://www.mmex.or.jp/wnn-c/e-index.htm

Tokugawa Art Museum
http://www.cjn.or.jp/tokugawa/index.html

http://www.ouc.bc.ca/mola/jp/links-geography.htm

http://www.io.com/~nishio/japan/

http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/index.html
Kids Web Japan, all sorts of stuff

http://www.coara.or.jp/~mieko/miehome.htm
Japan etc. Links to more than 200 pages on proverbs, counting, dress, more.

http://www.cowell.org/~yogo/index.html
Five Rings gamers' site; their Densetsu section has ghosts etc.

http://www.nsknet.or.jp/~kana/japan/jpculture.html

Nakasen Highway: A Jouney to the Heart of Japan
http://hkuhist2.hku.hk/nakasendo/
 

Online Japanese Dictionaries:

Jeffrey's online J<->E dictionary is at:
http://linear.mv.com/cgi-bin/j-e/nocolor/dict

Jim Breen's online dictionary is at:
http://www.rdt.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html

http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction2.html#japanese
A Web of Online Dictionaries; links to all kinds of specialty vocabularies

http://www.hayamasa.demon.co.uk/afaq/afaq.html
alt.sci.lang.japan FAQ 

http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/japanese/index.html
Teach Yourself Japanese 

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Flats/1090/slang.html
Keichan's Doki-doki J-town. 5 pages of slangy ways to be flippant, rude or romantic.

Japanese Names:

http://www.io.com/~nishio/japan/names.html

http://hsb.baylor.edu/html/vanauken/JapaneseNames.html

http://www2.gol.com/users/billp/students/kanjiname/

http://student-www.uchicago.edu/~smhawkin/names/meiji.html

http://jinny.cs.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp/~skoba/hobby/rpg/Jname/

http://student-www.uchicago.edu/~smhawkin/names/hq.html
(not exclusively Japanese, but one of the better sites)

Females:
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/japanese-f

Males:
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/japanese-m

Japanese Food:

Sushi Vocabulary

http://www.bento.com/sushivoc.html

http://foodwine.com/destinations/japan/japanmenu.html

Wagashi (Japanese sweets):

www.wagashi.com

http://202.23.150.181/users/kkitao/class/kyoto/D308/kiyama.htm

http://www.mmex.or.jp/wnn-c/wagasi/e-index.htm

Religion: 

Shinto: 

http://www.jinja.or.jp/english/s-0.html

Shinto Creation Stories

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/CREAT.HTM
Excerpts from Sacred Shinto Texts
http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/
Glossary of Basic Shinto Terms
http://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/bts/glossary.html

Buddhism(Zen):

http://buddhism.about.com/culture/religion/buddhism/msub14.htm

http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/KoanStudy.html

http://www.buddhanet.net/l_zen.htm

http://www.chinapage.com/zen/zenfaq.html

http://www.ajiva.com/daryl/zenfaq.html

http://www.uncwil.edu/iabs/vl/dharma.html

http://pears2.lib.ohio-state.edu/FULLTEXT/cfb_phil.htm

http://www.uua.org/uubf/sermon1.htm
 
 

Architecture:
http://www.kippo.or.jp/culture/build/archi_e.htm
 
http://www.isei.or.jp/Paper_Museum/houses.html
 
http://www.swifty.com/apase/charlotte/@Ejh.html
The Traditional Japanese House

History:

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ANCJAPAN/CONTENTS.HTM
Ancient Japan, history through Heian

 http://kizuna.cwru.edu/rlgn303-s99/projects/relart/resources/rehistory.html
Japanese History Resources

http://www.variable.net/hidden/japan/introduction.html
Demo for an onlinecourse on feudal Japan

Edo Japan: A Virtual Tour:
http://www.us-japan.org/edomatsu/
A trip through Edo illustrated with woodblock prints.

http://www.infocr.co.jp/hometown/yamaguchi/rekisi-e.html
Men Who Fought for the Meiji Restoration. Yamaguchi used to be Choushuu.

Children of the Edo Period as Seen in Ukiyo-E:
http://www.kumon.co.jp/eng/ka1000e.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/8353/
by a MENSA Sig on feudal Japan.

The Kochi City Homepage:
http://www.city.kochi.kochi.jp/kc_welcome.htm
Has capsule bios on Ishin leaders from Tosa.

Japanese History Through Film:
http://lama.kcc.hawaii.edu/asdp/biblio/film/easian/japan/jpfilm.html
A list of historical films

http://www.us-japan.org/edomatsu/
Virtual tour of 1700s era Edo 

http://oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/unive/
Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji. 

http://www.math.uic.edu/~dturk/meijihistory.html
Timeline of Japanese history 

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/ottwell-japanschools.html
Observation of boys' education in late Tokugawa

Japanese Mythology, and Folklore

http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/areas/japanese/

http://mhtml.ulis.ac.jp/~myriam/deuxgb.html
Has folktales in your choice of languages 

http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/areas/japanese/
Encyclopedia Mythica's Japanese section 

http://www2.gol.com/users/stever/jastro.html#Astro
Star Lore

Raccoon-dogs in Japanese Culture:
http://home.wxs.nl/~oosting/tanuki/in_japan.html

The Garden of Tanuki:
http://www.canismajor.demon.co.uk/tanukigarden/tanuki.htm
What attracted me to it is not only the piles of information on tanuki, but the essay on why some women are tanuki and others are foxes!! (But *no* clue on why Misao is a weasel!)

Mythology of the Fox:
http://www.harapan.co.jp/english/JPImage_e/kitsune.htm

Kitsune:
http://www.comnet.ca/~foxtrot/kitsune/kitsune1.htm

A story about the Fox and the Tanuki:
http://home.clara.net/wabei/xlation/quilt/tanufox.htm

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/japan.html
Another folktale page 

http://home.clara.net/wabei/index.html
Lots of translated tales and links to more

Martial Arts:

Sho-shin:
http://www.reninet.com/shoshin/index.html
Has just about everything you might want to know about swords and swordmaking.

http://www.home.ch/~spaw3382/bushi2.htm
Bushido site with a ton of martial arts links

http://www.cam.org/~hiro/english/hypertext/kendo.html
Kendo Stuff

http://frontpage.inficad.com/~trabino/kobudo.htm

http://www.isosceles.net/ninja/index.html

http://www.budoseek.net/

http://www.mindspring.com/~mamcgee/iaido.eishin-ryu.html

http://www.gemlink.com/~rstein/nihonto.htm

Specialty Stuff:

http://www.britgo.demon.co.uk/index.html
Introduction to Go. 

http://www.ed.ac.uk/~rjhare/shogi.intro.html
Shogi - Japanese Chess. Shogi without cheating ^_^ 

http://www.ejrcf.or.jp/JRTR_No/html_rt01/his.htm
History of Japanese Railways.

http://www.csuohio.edu/history/shiga96/garden.html
The Shiga Project: A Japanese Garden 

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