13 May 2008

Australia-Japan Research Project (AJRP)
The Australian War Memorial (AWM), Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "The AJRP aims to provide a resource for historians and others interested in the Australia-Japan relationship, especially in war, from 1901 to 1957. Our website contains a database of historic materials, several research essays and seminar papers, and various research aids, including glossaries and thesauri of geographical and military terms. The AJRP is a joint enterprise between the Australian War Memorial and the Japanese Embassy in Canberra."
Site content: * About; * Database (Australian regional archives, Australian War Memorial leaflets, Australian War Memorial official records, Australian War Memorial private records, Kure Municipal History Office, National Institute for Defense Studies (Tokyo)); * Research (Human face of war, Attitudes, Cowra-Japan conversations Research essays, Seminar papers, A glossary of Japanese military terms, ranks and units, A reference of Japanese campaigns during the first stage of operations in the Pacific War, and dispositions and casualties per region, A bibliography of Japanese language secondary sources with translated titles, Thesauri of geographic terms, Allied unit names, and keywords used in the AJRP database); * Maps; * Sitemap; * Search; * Links (Australian War Memorial, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australian National University, National Library of Australia, National Archives of Australia, National Institute for Defense Studies (Tokyo), National Diet Library (Tokyo), National Defense Academy (Yokosuka), Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (Tokyo)); * Thanks; * Translations (Staff of the Australia-Japan Research Project have translated various Japanese-language texts, which include seminar papers, essays, extracts from wartime diaries and primary materials, and extracts of Japanese secondary accounts of the war.); * What's New (AJRP publications, Japanese operations reference page, Bibliography of secondary sources, AJRP staffing changes)
URL http://www.awm.gov.au/ajrp
Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.awm.gov.au/ajrp
Link suggested by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at-coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1,000