Geography related links

General Geography
	Geographical Survey Institute www.gsi.go.jp/ENGLISH/index.html maps, earthquake data etc
	Japan Weather Association www.jwa.or.jp/english/index.html
	Statistics Bureau www.stat.go.jp/english/index.htm
	Regions & Cities web-jpn.org/region/index.html
	Capital Functions Relocation www.mlit.go.jp/kokudokeikaku/iten/English/english.htm including a tour of a virtual version of a proposed new capital city
	Tokyo Metropolitan Government www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/index.htm
	Byun Byun Shinkansen www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~dajf/byunbyun/index.htm Everything you ever wanted to know about the shinkansen.
	Japan National Tourist Organisation www.jnto.go.jp
	Japan Airlines good maps of Japan, weather information and live pictures of Japanese cities www.jal.co.jp/en/inter/index07.html
Earthquakes & Volcanoes
	Geological Survey of Japan www.gsj.jp/HomePage.html
	Earthquake Research Institute www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp
	Kobe Earthquake: an Urban Disaster www.agu.org/sci_soc/kobe.html An academic paper on the earthquake.
	City of Kobe Homepage www.city.kobe.jp/cityoffice/15/020/quake/index_e.html information on the earthquake and the recovery process
	My experience of the Kobe Earthquake ccs.cla.kobe-u.ac.jp/Asia/Visitor/Furm/index.html University students remember where they were on the day of the Hanshin earthquake.
	Geo Resources Website: Kobe www.georesources.co.uk/kobelow.htm
	Kobe 1995 www.vibrationdata.com/earthquakes/kobe.htm
	Earthquake effects in Kobe www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/effects-kobe.html
	Tokyo Fire Department www.tfd.metro.tokyo.jp/eng Information on emergency procedures, including earthquake drill.
	Hakone hakone.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp Volcano Research Centre homepage.
	Current Eruptions in Japan hakone.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/vrc/erup/erup.html
	Unzen Home Page hakone.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/unzen
	Usu Volcano Observatory uvo.sci.hokudai.ac.jp

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