Dear Museum-L Colleagues: I have compiled a list of homepages of Japanese museums, all opened last year. Mind you, not all of them are written bilingual, so perhaps you need a dictio nary or a Japanese friend at your hand! New findings shall follow in the Museu m-L. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka http://www.minpaku.ac.jp National Museum of Japanese History, Chiba http://trisun.rekihaku.ac.jp/rekihaku National Science Museum, Tokyo http://www.kahaku.go.jp/ Fukuoka City Art Museum, Fukuoka http://www.sow.co.jp/AMuseum/AMuseum.html Katusushika Museum of Local History, Tokyo http://obs.misato.wakayama.jp/~katushika/index-j.html Hyogo Pretectural Museum of Natural History, Himeji http://www.nat.himeji-tech.ac.jp Yamanashi Archaeology Museum, Yamanashi http://peach.kjb.yamanashi.ac.jp/prof4/yato/archae/ Ukiyoe Art Museum, Nagano http://ajn.meitetsu.co.jp/ukiyo-e/ Yokohama Art Museum, Yokohama http://soumgw.soum.co.jp/yokohama Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya http://cjn.meitetsu.co.jp/tokugawa/ History Village Meiji-Mura, Nagoya http://www.meitetsu.co.jp/meiji-vil/ Tabacco and Grass Museum, Tokyo http://www.jtnet.ad.jp/www/JT/museum/ Mito Art Center, Mito http://soumgw.soum.co.jp/mito Yokogawa Measurement Instruments Inc.'s Virtual Museum http://www.yokogawa.co.jp Toshiba Science Museum, Kawasaki (Toshiba Corp.) http://www.toshiba.co.jp Yokogawa Inc. are supposed to open their corporate museum in their head office s in Mitaka, Tokyo some years ahead, but exact year has not been decided yet. However, they have opened their homepage on their parent company's site on the web and exhibiting their real collections of sophisticated measurement device s. They have around 4,000 devices, which include gifts from the GE and the Smi thsonian. Amazingly, our homepages of museums have just started last year and it is becoming a boom now. As you can see, if you dare to open,they are still in their early years. Do cannot expect the same design quality which you find in those Sony things in your high street shops. Anyway Yours Truly will catch up the wave for you. Your humble student, Yasui Ryo Museum Media Consultant fax: (+81) 427-36-5916 e-mail: [log in to unmask]