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The Tale of Genji website combines chapter summaries, characters, maps, Murasaki Shikibu material, and photographs of temples, shrines, rivers, cemeteries, and neighborhoods connected to the Heian-period novel and its world.
NTT ICC's English Internet Edition index preserves InterCommunication material from 1992 onward on virtual reality, telepresence, media art, digital culture, future cities, robotics, electronic realism, and networked art.
Nambu World grew from a collector's 2003 Japanese-handgun website into a broad virtual museum of pre-1945 Japanese militaria, production research, markings, documents, and Pacific War history.
An old JapanHemp page points back to Dave Olson's 1997 research on hemp in Japanese history, religion, agriculture, language, crafts, and law—material that has continued to be cited long after the original site became unreliable.
Japan's Kitutuki-Kobo, or Woodpecker Studio, blended woodcut art, paper craft, wildlife reference material, and downloadable projects into a compact personal site that kept being cited years later.
Created on September 5, 1995, the Web's First Japanese Pizza Page documents a Tokyo neighborhood pizza menu with squid, octopus, tuna, mayonnaise, shiso, bamboo shoots, corn, boiled egg, and one author's increasingly concerned commentary.
Yuuji Hayashi's Tokyo Toilet Map photographed, rated, and mapped public toilets around Tokyo in 1996 and 1997, decades before location-review apps made the idea ordinary.
A surviving Kids Web Japan article from the late 1990s captures Pokémon while it was still a fast-growing Japanese Game Boy craze, complete with link cables, stamp rallies and 151 monsters.
Kenji World preserves English-language material about Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa, including his imagined land of Ihatov, essays, translations and downloadable works.
A surviving Japanese personal page documents Michaelsoft Binbows, a used-computer shop whose name and reversed Windows-style logo became an Internet curiosity decades later.