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Departamento Museo - Asociación Peruano Japonesa

Museum of Japanese Immigration to Peru.

Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

The website is in English and describes many onsite holdings. Research room includes microfilm of passport applications. Make an appointment to research; bring passport for ID.

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FamilySearch Catalog

From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Microfilm loans can be ordered and then sent to your local Family History Center.

FamilySearch Wiki - Japan Family History Centers

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Includes a research library with materials on immigration studies.

Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection - Japanese Diaspora Initiative

The Japanese Diaspora Initiative (JDI) aims to make the Hoover Institution Library & Archives a leading center for archive-based research and analysis on historical issues regarding Japan in core areas of interest to the institution: war, revolution, and peace.

JAMsj - Japanese American Museum | San Jose's Japantown

The Japanese American Museum of San Jose showcases a unique collection of permanent and rotating exhibits chronicling more than a century of Japanese American history. Visitors will learn about early immigration of Japanese to America, their leadership in the agricultural community, their incarceration during World War II and the challenges they faced, while adapting and contributing to West Coast communities.

Japanese American National Library

National library based in San Francisco, CA, housing Japanese directories, newspapers, some primary source camp data. Open by appointment.

Japanese American National Museum

Los Angeles, California.

Japanese American Research Project collection about Japanese in the U.S. (Yuji Ichioka papers), 1893-1973

Large collection of personal papers, photos, oral histories related to Japanese American experience, located at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.

Japanese Special Collection - University Libraries | Washington University in St. Louis

LibDex - The Library Index - Japan

A worldwide directory of links to library homepages and web-based OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs).

National Archives of Japan / 国立公文書館

National Diet Library ― 国立国会図書館

The National Diet Library (NDL) is the parliamentary library of the National Diet of Japan and was founded in 1948 by the National Diet Library Law, in accordance with Article 130 of the Diet Law, which states in part that "The National Diet Library shall be established in the Diet by a separate law, in order to assist Diet Members in their study and research."

Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

The specific aim of the Bureau is to locate and preserve archives, manuscripts and other unpublished or semi-published material through microfilm. It is interested in gathering material of historical, literary, or scientific interest to Pacific scholars which may be of value either now or in the future. Of particular concern to the Bureau are those documents at risk either from adverse climactic conditions, insect infestation, or civil unrest. It is also interested in preserving material deteriorating as a result of age or poor storage. Microfilming older at-risk records has been the moving force of the Bureau.

The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement: A Digital Archive

The Bancroft Library - University of California, Berkeley. Starting in August 2011 and ending in March 2014, the project digitized nearly 100,000 original manuscript items and made them available on the Online Archive of California. A thematic website was designed and created to lead users to the data by various means, including textual searches using standardized vocabularies and visual mechanisms such as GIS tagging and interactive maps. The digital archive allows users to explore these primary source materials and connects them to related resources. As one of the Bancroft Library's most heavily used collections, this project ensures the long-term preservation of the original materials while providing unprecedented access through a central portal.

The Japanese Canadian National Museum (JCNM)

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Established to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and interpret historical artifacts and archival material covering the history of Japanese Canadian Society from the 1870's through World War II to the present day.