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Language and Cultures

France

CIA World Fact Book - information on France
France Diplomatie - French government website
INSEE - National institute of statistics and economic studies
Eurostat - European national statistics offices
Organisation internationale de la francophonie - French worldwide

Wiki history of France
Wiki timeline of French history
Nations Online
France since 1871 - open course from Yale

The Economist - business news about France
Kwintessential - doing business in France
About-France.com - outline of the French economy

Cinema of France
Cinema of Québec
Cinema of Belgium
IMBD - most popular French films
SBSFrench movies and news

Le Centre Culturel Francophone - Vancouver
Alliance Française - Vancouver
French Institute of New York
French Culture - cultural services of the French embassy in the US

Japan

CIA World Fact Book: Japan - history, people, government, economy, geography, transportation, military, etc.
NationMaster Country Profile. Japan
GIOSS-Government Information Online Service System (in Japanese)
Lasdec - links to local government websites (in Japanese)
Japanese Government Statistics
Statistics Bureau Japan
National Institute of Population and Social Security Research
Ohara Institute of Social Research - Hosei University
JETRO - Japanese Trade and Investment Statistics

International Center for the Digitalization of Premodern Japanese Sources - University of Tokyo
Japanese Historical Text Initiative - includes bilingual works like Kojiki 古事記and Nihon Shoki 日本書紀
Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era(1600-1867)
Photographs - Bakumatsu-Meiji Period - Nagasaki University Library
Digital Library Meiji Era
Memoirs of a secret empire - travel along the Tokaido road

American Chamber of Commerce - Japan
Canadian Chamber of Commerce - Japan
Nippon Keidanren - Japan Business Federation
JETRO - Japanese Trade and Investment Statistics

China

CIA World Fact Book: China
NationMaster Country profile: China
China’s Ethnic Minorities
Chinese Central Government Web Portal
National Bureau of Statistics of China 中国国家统计局
China Data Centre - University of Michigan (partially free)
China Vitae - biographical information on over 4000 Chinese leaders

WWW Virtual Library: Chinese History
China History to Qing Dynasty (USC)
Classical Historiography for Chinese History
Digital Archives Project National Taiwan University
Han Dynasty: Legacy of Ancient China
Virtual Museum of the Cultural Revolution
World Heritage in China
China Historical GIS Dataset a database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chinese history between 222 BCE and1911 CE.
Chinese history during 1840-1949 (in Chinese) The site publishes a large number of academic papers and articles.
Silk Road Narratives: A Collection of Historical Texts
Taiwan Memory (NCL)

China Maps
Maps of China
Map Collection (U of Texas)
China Historical GIS (Harvard)
Religious Atlas of China and Himalaya includes information for several thousand religious places in China and the Himalayas