list of internet links that you might find useful

Council of International Educational Exchanges
http://www.ciee.org/
MIEA home page
(Japanese)
http://www.analogman.ne.jp/MIEA/
Japan Travel Guide
http://www.japan-guide.com/
Guide to Japan
(Japan National Tourist Organization)
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/GJ/
Mimasaka City Homepage 
(Japanese)
http://www.city.mimasaka.lg.jp/
Old Mimasaka town Homepage 
(English-about FIFA2002 Camp)
http://mimasaka.city.mimasaka.lg.jp/worldcup/index-e.htmll
Okayama Prefecture
(English)
http://www.pref.okayama.jp/kikaku/kokusai/momo/e/
A zoomable map of Japan (Japanese)
http://www.mapion.co.jp/html/map/web/japan.html
Japanese newspaper (English)
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm
Convert your money into yen (English)
http://www.xe.net/ucc/convert.cgi
Japanese language
http://japanese.miningco.com/homework/japanese/index.htm
Homepage of an Australian lived in Mimasaka
http://www.geocities.com/roryim/index.html
Jim Breen's Japanese Page
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html
Web-based email
http://www.hotmail.com
If you want to view pages containing Japanese text on your non-Japanese computer you may need to install some extra software.
http://www.njstar.com/

try downloading and installing the NJ Star Communicator 2.2 software