The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early Aug 2004
Vol. 11, No. 14 (218)

13 Aug 2004

Focus: e-newsletter of The Japan External Trade Organization
Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), Tokyo/New York, Japan/USA
Supplied note: "NEW YORK - August 10, 2004 -- The Japan External Trade Organization New York (JETRO NY) released a newsletter today highlighting the trend toward greater entrepreneurship in Japan. It can be viewed at [the URL below - ed.] - kwrintl."
Self-description: "The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) is a Japanese government organization that promotes mutually beneficial investment and trade relations between Japan and other nations. JETRO was established in 1958, and has a worldwide network of 38 offices in Japan and 76 offices overseas."
Site contents: * An article 'An Entrepreneurial Spirit Begins to Emerge in Japan' [Focus no. 35, Aug 2004]; Links to the issues no. 1 -34: * Consumer Demand [Focus no. 34, Jun 2004]; * Asia; * Gross National Cool; * Regional Development ; * New Policy Challenges; * Investment Japan IV; * Investment Japan III; * Biotechnology; * Investment Japan II; * Investment Japan; * Foreign Direct Investment; * Mergers & Acquisitions; * Entrepeneurship; * Economic Revitalization; * Industrial Revitalization; * Foreign Investment [Focus no. 19, Jul 2002].; * Bush Visit; * Koizumi Visit; * Economic Rebirth; * Hiranuma Plan; * Foreign Direct Investment; * Emergency Economic Package; * Action Plan; * Economic Reform; * Okinawa Summit; * Small Business Development; * New Enterprise Development; * Industrial Revitalization; * Economic Recovery 4; * Steel; * Economic Recovery 3; * Economic Recovery 2; * Economic Recovery [Focus no. 1, Nov 1998].
URL http://www.jetro.go.jp/usa/newyork/focusnewsletter/focus35.html
Internet Archive [only the issues number 1-31 were archived at the time of this abstract. e.g. http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.jetro.go.jp/usa/newyork/focusnewsletter/focus31.html]
Link reported by: KWR International for JETRO NY (kwrintl[use"@"]kwrintl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Govt.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

12 Aug 2004

Meta-Guide to Indonesia: Annotated Bibliography of post-1990 Bibliographies on Indonesia
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "Meta-Guide to Indonesia: Annotated Bibliography of post-1990 Bibliographies on Indonesia by George Miller [final version, completed 12 Aug 2004 - ed.].
* Purpose: This work is an update of Herman C. Kemp's 1990 publication, Annotated Bibliography of Bibliographies on Indonesia (Leiden, KITLV Press) which is the most comprehensive published guide to Indonesian studies to that point in time. It is hoped that this present work, in its electronic form a part of the Indonesian Studies WWW VL [a sub-section of the Asian Studies WWW VL (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) - ed.], will be a first-stop entry to the increasingly wide range of current research material on Indonesia published since 1990. Reader's comments and suggestions for improvements and addenda to this meta-bibliography are warmly invited.
* Scope: The work lists bibliographies and catalogues on Indonesia published [in print and electronically - ed.] since 1990, attempting in general terms to follow the selection criteria and arrangement set out by Kemp, with the exception that it includes bibliographies in electronic form. The main source for the material has been the Library of The Australian National University, and the National Library of Australia, Canberra. Works have been limited to those in English, Indonesian and Dutch.
* Structure: The entries for each bibliography are arranged alphabetically by author. Each entry consists of eight data fields, namely, ID number, Author, Title (including imprint, collation, serials title and ISBN/ISSN), Coverage, Number of items, Structure, Evaluation and Location. [...]
* Compiler and copyright holder: George Miller has worked in the field of Indonesian bibliography and librarianship for many years. He set-up the National Library of Australia's Jakarta office in 1969, was Southeast Asian Librarian at the ANU between 1974 and 1997 and was editor of the monthly email list, 'Recent Indonesian Publications' between 1998 and 2002."
Site contents: Bibliography [204 records - ed.]; a Database.
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/IndonPages/Meta-Bibliography.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/IndonPages/Meta-Bibliography.html
Link reported by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek[use"@"]coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* 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 30

09 Aug 2004

Arrest of HUJI Leader
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
[Extract: "[...] Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the Amir of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), was picked up by the Dubai authorities on August 6, 2004, and handed over to the Pakistani authorities, who had him flown to Pakistan the next day. [...] The arrest of the Qari is quite significant. If the Pakistani authorities interrogate him properly, he could throw much light on the post-9/11 activities of Al Qaeda and the Amir of the Taliban. It is quite likely that he will know about the present location of the Taliban Amir.Since the Qari had been living in Dubai, it is likely that Mullah Omar may also be living there." - b.raman]
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Distinguished Fellow and Convenor, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Chennai Chapter. - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers11/paper1081.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde[use"@"]vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

09 Aug 2004

Hunt For Jihadi Terrorists In Pakistan
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
[Extract: "The Pakistani authorities have, for the first time, admitted that many of the dregs of Al Qaeda and other components of Osama bin Laden's International Islamic Front (IIF) have been operating from the urban centres of Pakistan and not necessarily from the inaccessible tribal areas as they had been maintaining in the past and that Karachi and Quetta are the main nerve-centres of the Al Qaeda dregs in Pakistan." - b.raman]
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Distinguished Fellow and Convenor, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Chennai Chapter. - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers11/paper1080.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde[use"@"]vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

09 Aug 2004

The Nanking Atrocities (Online Documentary)
www.geocities.com, USA
Supplied note (9 Aug 2004): "The address of the Nanking Atrocities website has been moved to [see the URL below]. It is due to the University of Missouri's administrative decision not to host its alumnus project on their server any longer. Thus I have migrated the entire project to the [... new] URL. I would appreciate it if you could change the link accordingly. - mk."
Supplied note (12 Aug 2000): "[C]omprehensive accounts of the Nanking Atrocities that took place 1937-38 Nanking, China during the early stage of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It includes interviews with leading historians in this field as well as historical photographs and a number of other documented materials such as newspaper articles, diaries of former Japanese soldiers and American missionaries who were in Nanking when the incident took place, and the judgment of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial. - mk."
Site contents: Introduction: I. From Marco Polo Bridge to Nanking, II. Focal Points of the Nanking Atrocities Today, III. (Video) China Invaded;
The Fall of Nanking: I. What Foreign Journalists Witnessed II. (Reference) The New York Times Articles III. (Video) The Battle of China;
The Reign of Terror: I. What Japanese Journalists Witnessed, II. The Safety Zone and American Missionaries, III. (Reference) What Westerners Witnessed, IV.(Video) China Invaded
Confessions of Former Soldiers: I. Killing Prisoners of War, II. The Yamada Detachment, III. Rape and Pillage , IV.(Video) The Battle of China;
Psychological Warfare: I. Chinese Propaganda, II. Japanese Propaganda, III. (Video) Nanking
The Postwar Judgment: I. International Military Tribunal for the Far East, II. Nanking War Crimes Tribunal, III. (Reference) The Judgment of the IMTFE, IV. (Photo Gallery) The Tokyo Trial;
The Nanking Atrocities in the 1990s: I. The Death Toll - Early Estimates, II. The Death Toll - Current Estimates, III. The Controversy in Japan, IV. (Photo Gallery) Nanking City;
Works Cited: Selected bibliography of books, journals, newspapers, and films / List of interviewees / Other references / Military Postcards.
[An August 2000 thesis (http://journalism.missourI. edu/~jschool/nanking/index.htm), by Masato Kajimoto, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Journalism in the Graduate School of Journalism of the University of Missouri-Columbia - ed.]
URL http://www.geocities.com/nankingatrocities/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the "www.geocities.com/nankingatrocities/" site was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, archival copies of the U. of Missouri's site are maintained at http://web.archive.org/web/*/web.missourI. edu/~jschool/nanking address.].
Link reported by: Masato Kajimoto (nankingatrocities[use"@"]yahoo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other
* 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 30

09 Aug 2004

Cross-Border issues in Central Asia - a mailing list
unknown publisher, USA
Supplied note: "A new, relatively restricted, email list is being created for practioners in Central Asia to discuss issues related to cross-border donor programs. The list will focus on customs, immigration and customs harmonization programs. At the present time, the EU, the World Bank, the Eurasia Foundation, the IOM and several aid contractors have representatives who will participate in this list.
List members should be practioners or donors in this area and will include representatives from the donor community, governments of the region and academics who can help provide insight about ongoing or proposed projects in this area. The list will be a low-volume one but members may receive some attachments. Again, this list is going to be for practioners and not for people simply interested in the subject.
If you are interested in joining this list, please email David Mikosz at dmikosz[use"@"]worldbank.org.
Please also include your organizational affiliation and what work you are doing in cross-border programs. For the purposes of this list, cross border work means any border work between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekstan or trade with any of these countries and Russia, China, Afghanistan and Iran. - dm."
URL: n/a
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [n/a].
Link reported by: David Mikosz (dmikosz[use"@"]worldbank.org), forwarded by cesn-list[use"@"]lists.fas.harvard.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: n/a
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: n/a

06 Aug 2004

Peace Declaration of Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima City, Hiroshima, Japan
Supplied note: "On August 6, Akiba Tadatoshi, Mayor of Hiroshima, delivered the declaration of peace on the 59th years anniversary of the day when the US dropped one atomic bomb in 1945. The full text of his declaration can be found: http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/shimin/heiwa/pd/pd2004j.html (in Japanese) http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/shimin/heiwa/pd/pd2004e.html (in English)
The previous declarations [* Archive of all Peace Declarations since 1947, * About the Peace Declaration, * History of Peace Declarations - ed.] are archived at: http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/shimin/heiwa/declaration.html - mm."
URL http://http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/shimin/heiwa/pd/pd2004e.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract].
Link reported by: Mizuno Mitsuaki (mizuno-m[use"@"]sa.starcat.ne.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Govt.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

03 Aug 2004

PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research) Mumbai
PUKAR, Mumbai, India
Self-description: "PUKAR [est. 2001] is an innovative and experimental non-profit institution that takes Mumbai as its conceptual base and laboratory and aims to contribute to a global debate about urbanization and globalization. [...] We focus on changing the knowledge framework within which tomorrow's citizens will help to shape urban liveability, governance and prosperity and work toward enhancing and complementing current efforts to strengthen civic participation in urban life in MumbaI. PUKAR is open to a diverse, multi-lingual and multi-generational audience [...]."
Site contents: * People; * Projects + Initiatives (Gender and Space, Writing Across the City, Neighborhood Project, Post-Industrial Landscapes, Marathi Public Sphere, Studio PUKAR, Youth); * Products + Publications (PUKAR Pamphlets + Translations Series, PUKAR Projects + Initiatives Series, PUKAR Short Films Series Studio; * Opportunities; * Links + Networks [a section under construction - ed.]; * Calendar; * Pictures; * Contact; * About Pukar.
URL http://www.pukar.org.in/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.pukar.org.in/
Link reported by: PUKAR Mumbai (pukarmumbai[use"@"]yahoo.co.in), forwarded by h-asia[use"@"]h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

02 Aug 2004

Early Bengali Serials, 1818-1950 : A Shared Database of Library Holdings Worldwide
K. K. Agencies, Online Store of Indian Publications, New Delhi, India
Supplied note: "Early Bengali Serials, 1818-1950 : A Shared Database of Library Holdings Worldwide / Designed and Developed by Asoknath Mukhopadhyay. 1st ed. Kolkata, K. P. Bagchi & Company. 2004. xxiv, 541 p. 25 cm. [...] ISBN: 8170742617 KK-28536
Early Bengali Serials (EBS) is a *print* version of the electronic database of an International Union Catalogue. The Database includes over one thousand journals and newspapers appeared during the period 1818-1950. Each title, with few exceptions, is annotated with bibliographic description, indicative notes, subject keywords, and the whereabouts of available issues tracked down in some heritage libraries in West Bengal and other parts of India, and in overseas institutions as well. [...] So far, bibliographers and researchers have found evidence of nearly 2900 titles brought out in pre-independent India. EBS captured 1087 of those. The database has been developed with input from varied types of secondary sources -- both on-line and off-line, covering printed library catalogues, union lists, bibliographies, historical reference materials, and on-line union catalogues and library databases. [...] Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Romanization & Bengali Naming Conventions; Transliteration for Bengali Serial Titles; Record Definition; Host Libraries; Records By Serial Titles; Indexes; Commencement year; Affiliation; Editor & Sub-Editor; Patron; Publisher; Printer; Printing Press; Publishing Place; Bilingual; Subject Keyword; Appendix; Reference Sources.
Asoknath Mukhopadhyay, formerly Librarian, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, managed several database development projects sponsored by agencies of national importance, such as IIMC, NISSAT and AMDISA. - krm."
[Bibliographic and purchase details of an essential paper publication - ed.]
URL http://www.kkagencies.com/toc/28536.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract].
Link reported by: K. R. Mittal (kkagen[use"@"]giasdl01.vsnl.net.in)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

01 Aug 2004

Vietnam Information Guide
Worldwide Ventures, Port Charlotte, FL, USA
Supplied note: "Comprehensive Vietnam information website exploring Vietnam from both the Western and Vietnamese perspective. - tp."
Site contents: News Archive; Letters to the Editor; Country; Culture; Photo Galleries; Vietnamese Language; Vietnam Non Profits; Embassies / Consulates; Shopping / Souvenirs; Traveler Complaints / Recommendations; Travel Tips; Vietnamese / Asian Foods & Receipes; Listen to Vietnamese Music; Business Directories; Expat Help; News; Classifieds; Jobs Offered; Jobs Wanted; Real Estate; Rentals; Currency Converter; Advertising & Services.
URL http://www.vietventures.com
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.vietventures.com
Link reported by: Tom Pilitowski (vietventures2000[use"@"]yahoo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1,000

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