• BBC News (Asia-Pacific region) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/default.stm
• The Japan Times - Japan's foremost English-language newspaper http://www.japantimes.com/

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Reference:

• Country profiles from bbc.co.uk: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/country_profiles/default.stm
• Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Serverhttp://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html

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Sports

• Japanese Baseball website maintained by Michael Westbay. Up-to-date info on Japan's most popular sport.http://www.japanesebaseball.com/index.jsp
• Official home page of the Nihon Sumo Kyokai (Japanese Sumo Association)http://www.sumo.or.jp/eng/index.html

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Culture

• Comphrehensive fan site devoted to Akira Kurosawa, director of Seven Samurai, Rashomon, and others.http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~adk/kurosawa/AKpage.html
• British Film Institute's tribute to Kurosawa.http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/kurosawa/
• Official site of Osama Tezuka, "god of manga" and father of Astro Boy.http://www.tezuka.co.jp/

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