Below are the major journalists associations in Japan:
Japan Audit Bureau of Circulations, JABC
Japan Local Newspaper Association, JLNA
Japan National Press Club, NPC
Nippon Press Centre, Ltd
The Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan
The Foreign Press Centre Japan, FPC
http://www.nttls.co.jp/fpc/
The Japan Congress of Journalists, JCJ
http://www.tky.3web.ne.jp/~jcj/e_index.html
The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association (JNPEA) / Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (NSK)
http://www.pressnet.or.jp/
Copyright Research and Information Centre, CRIC
http://www.cric.or.jp/crice/
Japan Cable Television Association, JCTA">
http://www.catv.or.jp/english/INDEX77.htm
The National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan, NAB
http://www.nab.or.jp/htm/english/englishtop0.htm

Japan-related web sites

1. Key Japan
   www.keyjapan.com/opening1.html

2. AT&T World Net's Japan Cyber Guide
   www.att.ne.jp/cyberg/doing/index.htm/

3. CIA Factbook (U.S.)
   www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ja/html

4. US Congress Library
   http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/jptoc.html

Web sites of Japan's media

1. Asahi Shimbun
   www.asahi.com/english/english.html
   www.asahi.com/cinfo/english/contents.html

2. Mainichi Shimbun
   www.mainichi.co.jp/english/

3. Daily Yomiuri
   www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm

4. Nihon Keizai Shimbun
   www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/

5. Sankei Shimbun
   http://www.sankei.co.jp/main.html

6. Japan Times
   www.japantimes.co.jp/misc/aff.html
   www.japantimes.co.jp/

7. Chinese Review Weekly (the only Chinese weekly in Japan)
   www.chubun.com

8. Japan Update
   http://japanupdate.com/

9. Nippon Television Network Corp.
   www.ntv.co.jp/index2.htm

10. Fuji Television
    www.fujitv.co.jp/en/

11. Television Asahi
    www.tv-asahi.co.jp/(Japanese only)

12. Television Tokyo
    www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/(Japanese only)

13. Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS)
    www.tbs.co.jp/

Others

1. Asiamedia
   www.asiamedia.ucla.edu.htm

2. Asia Source
   www.asiasource.org/experts.cfm

3. Freedom Forum
   www.freedomforum.org

4. Tissue Paper
   www.jabam.com/Pages/tissue%20paper.html

5. Yoichi Shimatsu, Jouranlism and Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong

6. Tetsuya Nishihara, Ji Ji Press

7. Carl Freire, Associate Editor, Asian Survey, UC Berkeley

8. Ronald Yates, Professor of Journalism, University of Illinois

9. "About Japan" Series 7: Japan's Mass Media 1997, published by Foreign Press Centre, Japan

10. Facts about Japanese Newspapers 1999, published by The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association, NSK (Nihon Shinbun Kyokai)