High School Japanese Studies

• Historical Places Related to the Yamato Period (250 - 710) 
• Historical Places Related to the Nara Period (710 - 794)
• Historical Places Related to the Kamakura Period (1185 - 1333)
• Historical Places Related to the Muromachi Period (1336 - 1573)
• Historical Places Related to the Sengoku Period (1467 - 1573)
• Historical Places Related to the Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568 - 1603)

Historical Places Related to the Azuchi-Momoyama Period

• Osaka Castle
• Sekigahara
• Azuchi Castle
• Fushimi Castle
• Hiroshima Castle
• Iga-ryu Ninja Museum
• Iga Ueno Castle

Historical Places Related to the Sengoku Period

• Tsutsujigasaki Palace/Takeda Shrine
• Iwami Ginzan
• Kiyosu Castle
• Odawara Castle
• Aoba Castle

Historical Places Related to the Muromachi Period

• Five Great Zen Temples of Kyoto
• Ginkaku-ji
• Kinkaku-ji
• Nanzen-ji
• Ryoan-ji

Historical Places Related to the Kamakura Period

• Kotoku-in
• Moto Hachiman
• Tomb of Minamoto Yoritomo
• Tsurugaoka Hachimangu
• Five Great Zen Temples of Kamakura

Historical Places Related to the Nara Period

• Shoso-in
• Todai-ji
• Heijo Palace
• Kasuga Shrine
• Kofuku-ji
• Futarasan Shrine
• Kanda Myojin

Historical Places Related to the Yamato Period

• Daisen Kofun
• Horyu-ji
• Ishibutai Kofun
• Itsukushima Shrine
• Yakushi-ji

Japanese Values - Literature Index

The following are books that are helpful as an introduction to Japanese values:

1. Bushido: The Soul of Japan, Nitobe Inazo
   
2. Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created its Own Lost Generation, Michael Zielenziger
   
3. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture, Ruth Benedict
   
4. The Japanese Today: Change and Continuity, Edwin O. Reischauer
   
5. Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunemoto
   
6. In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End, Norma Field
   
7. In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage, William M. Tsutsui and Michiko Ito, eds.
   
8. The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan, Eiko Ikegami
   
9. The Worldview of the Ainu, Takako Yamada