Useful Links:

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html (This site includes publications of the CIA, current Worldfact Book, and maps.)

http://www.ciolek.com/Asia-Web-Watch/main-page.html (The Asia Web Watch provides a register of statistical data that can be accessed alphabetically. Data includes Asian online materials, statistics, and appendices about Asian cyberspace.)

http://asiasource.org (From this site it is possible to access a number of resources that include current news, business data, worldwide events, articles and speeches, maps, research and reference data, and related links on Asia.)

http://www.accessasia.org (Contemporary Asian affairs and policy-related issues are maintained on this web site, a project of the National Bureau of Asian Research.)

http://www.ciolek.com/Asia-Web-Watch/main-page.html (The Asia Web Watch provides a register of statistical data that can be accessed alphabetically. Data includes Asian online materials, statistics, and appendices about Asian cyberspace.)

http://asiasource.org (From this site it is possible to access a number of resources that include current news, business data, worldwide events, articles and speeches, maps, research and reference data, and related links on Asia.)

http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/index.html (Coverage of news media, politics, legal and human rights information, as well as China's economy, philosophy and religion, society, arts, culture, and history may be found here.)

http://www.insidechina.com (The European Information Network is organized under Headline News, Government, and Related Sites, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.)

http://www.chinatopnews.com (Current news is presented on this web site, and a number of links to other news media are available.)

http://www.cnd.org (China News Digest International presents this site on timely and balanced news coverage on China and China-related affairs.)

http://www.jpri.org (Headings on this site include "What's New" and Publications before 1996.)

http://www.japantimes.co.jp (This daily online newspaper is offered in English and contains late-breaking news.)

http://www.roc-taiwan.org (This is a good starting place for all kinds of information about Taiwan. It includes web sites and search engines.)

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html (This site includes publications of the CIA, current Worldfact Book, and maps.)

http://conbio.net/vl/database/ (Easy search for country-specific sites that provide news, government, and other information is possible from this site.)

http://www.info.usaid.gov (U.S. trade statistics with China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in graphic form are available at this site.)

Useful Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24uSLANrvRo (Confucianism: Relationships and Governance)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZNxvb12UDA (Japanese Shintoism)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG-UEE0a3aI (Democracy Without Competition in Japan)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J55au5ooTg (Forbidden City Beijing China)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR8WInWv5eQ (China’s Pollution Busters)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy93gedwAAU (Winds of Change-China)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4OWJlyaHt0 (China’s One Child Policy)

Documentary on Great Wall of China:

*All parts may not be their all at once.*

China Rises:

*All parts may not be their all at once.*

Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire / The Way of the Samurai

Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire / The Will of the Shogun

Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire / The Return of the Barbarians