Japan GIS Data Sources (Jul 2013)
---- digital scholarship

NCC, Digital Scholarship in Japanese Studies
---- digital scholarship

JapanMap (Harvard Univ)
---- current
---- browse current maps (with Sendai Earthquake data)

MLIT Ministry of Land Information
---- current

GSI Geological Survey of Japan
---- current

Japan Topo Map Server
---- current
---- browse 1:2,500 scale maps (map scale info)

Mapfan
---- current
---- current street maps of Japan with local info

Japan Postcode Lookup
---- current

Meiji Statistics with GIS downloads, Tsukuba University
---- historical

G. W. Skinner Archive
---- historical
---- regional systems analysis: Gun and Kuni data for Meiji Japan

Nichibun Collection
---- historical
---- scanned historical maps (high-resolution online browsing)

David Rumsey Japan Maps
---- historical
---- browse the UC Berkeley historical maps collection online

Japan Edo Era Han Charts
---- historical
---- Table of 300 Hans, Daimyos and related information.

Ashida Bunko Map Exhibit
---- historical
---- browse Meiji University historical maps collection online

Dharma Drum Buddhist College
---- eras - nengo
---- Time Authority Search Engine for Japanese Reign Dates

Loren Seibert, GIS of Tokyo's Urban History
---- historical GIS

Yuji Murayama, Meiji Historical Statistics
---- historical GIS

Lex Berman, Tokugawa Historical GIS
---- historical GIS
---- datasets to download

Tohoku University, Gaihozu Maps Index
---- scanned maps