Useful Links

General Information

Multlingual Living Information
http://www.clair.or.jp/tagengorev/en/index.html
Information about daily life necessary for foreigners to live in Japan is included on this homepage in several languages.

Living Information Comprehensive
http://www.tokyo-icc.jp/guide_eng/index.html
Living Guide for Foreign Residents in Japan.

Hiragana Times
http://www.hiraganatimes.com/index.html
Hiraganatimes.com is a site for finding information about Japan, such as travel (hotels), living, jobs, housing, visas, Shopping, Japanese language schools, international parties and finding friends.

Japan Reference
http://www.jref.com/
The Japan Directory helps you to generate reliable search results by mining for hidden data related to almost every aspect of Japan.

Web Japan
http://web-japan.org/
Web Japan was launched with the aim of helping people around the world get to know more about Japan and the Japanese.

http://www.alc-jlife.com/
Community site for the people who study Japanese (Written in Japanese).

Emergency

Japan Helpline
http://www.jhelp.com/en/jhlp.html
Japan Helpline, Japan's only 24 hour non-profit, nationwide emergency assistance service.

Fire and earthquake preparedness
http://www.tfd.metro.tokyo.jp/eng/119.htm
This is a part of Tokyo Fire Department's website.

http://www.himawari.metro.tokyo.jp/qq/qq13enmnlt.asp
Tokyo metropolitan medical Institution Information Search engine of hospital in Tokyo.

Official Bureau

http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/english/index.html
Immigration Bureau of Japan Website

http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/index.htm
Tokyo Metropolitan Government

http://www.tfemploy.go.jp/index_en.html Tokyo Employment Service Center for Foreigners

http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/indexe.html
Japan Meteorological Agency This site contains weather news.

http://www.mofa.go.jp/Mofaj/link/embassy/index.html
Embassy link This page is a part of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan's website.

http://www.moj.go.jp/JINKEN/jinken21.html#01
Human Rights Counseling Offices For Foreigners

Communication

http://www.post.japanpost.jp/english/index.html
Japanese Postal Service

http://www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp/english/index.html
Yamato Transport

http://www.ntt.co.jp/index_e.html
NTT Phone, Internet, and other communication service

http://www.kddi.com/english/index.html
KDDI Phone, Internet, and other communication service

http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/
NTT Docomo Mobile phone vendor

http://www.au.kddi.com/english/index.html
AU Mobile phone vendor

News

http://www.asahi.com/english/
Asahi Weekly

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/
Daily Yomiuri online

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/
Mainichi Daily News

http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/ Nikkei Net Interactive

Transportation & Travel

http://www.tokyometro.jp/global/en/index.html
Tokyo Metro

http://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/english/index.html
Toei Transportation http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/index.html JR East

http://www.narita-airport.jp/en/index.html
Narita Airport http://www.tokyo-airport-bldg.co.jp/en/

http://www.tokyo-airport-bldg.co.jp/en/
Haneda Airport

http://www.hyperdia.com/cgi-english/hyperWeb.cgi
HYPERDIA-timetable

http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/map/index_map.html
Map of Japan

http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/index.html
JNTO Website Travel information in Japan 　Housing

http://www.room-search.com/eng/index.html
Room search Japan

http://www.jafnet.co.jp/index_en.html
J＆F Network