About This Site
Web Japan was launched with the aim of helping people around the world get to know more about Japan and the Japanese. With more than about 200 million hits per year from around the world, it has become one of Japan’s leading websites for information on the country.
The site provides highly reliable information on Japan across many different genres including culture, sightseeing, society, history and nature. The content is provided primarily in English, but a portion of the site is multilingual.
Web Japan is sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and operated by a Japanese non government organization. With the exception of those rights possessed by third parties, MOFA retains all copyrights related to images, etc. as well as author’s personal rights for proprietary materials contained herein.
You can access the information on this site in three ways.
- Contents title search: Choose the site best suited to your interest from the 11 content titles on the top page.
- Category search: Search from among eight categories “Nature & Geography, Politics & Administration, Economy & Industry, Society, Culture, Travel & Sightseeing, Sports & Leisure, and Science & Technology ”to find the information you need.
- Keyword search: Narrow down the information you are searching for by typing in a keyword. You can also do “and/or” searches.
We hope that Web Japan will prove useful in promoting the understanding of Japan among people of the world.
webmaster@web-japan.org (comment and suggestion only)