Given that there have been several requests for information, a good many
of you, assuming you actually write prose for this list, may well find
the following links useful.
On Shinto:
http://www.jinja.or.jp/english/index.html
On Martial Arts and sundry other subjects concerning combat:
http://koryu.com/koryu.html
This site has a good many links and other resources for those of you
writing about characters using martial arts.
On Anime and Manga in general: Many Japanese cultural items and terms
explained here:
http://www.sirius.com/~cowpunk/ACmain.html
For those wanting to know how to travel cheaply in Japan:
http://www.t3.rim.or.jp/~sayori/
For those wanting to know what it is like to be a gaijin in Japan (some
of us are "gaijin" no matter where we are:
http://jpatokal.iki.fi/text/j2j/index.html
And just for those that need to learn how to laugh:
http://jpatokal.iki.fi/text/j2j/index.html
Regards,
Don Granberry.