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Archives: Contemporary Okinawa by John Michael Purves
http://www.niraikanai.wwma.net/pages/archive.html
Includes Japanese documents dating back to the 1889 Constitution. The documents are divided into several sections: Prewar and Wartime Documents, Postwar Japan-U.S. Documents, Postreversion Japan-U.S. Documents, and Other Resources. Full text is available for most of the documents.
Birth of the Constitution of Japan
http://www.ndl.go.jp/constitution/e/
This online exhibition on the writing of the Japanese Constitution is sponsored by the National Diet Library. It focuses on the major events and documents surrounding the framing of the Constitution. The site also contains archives, a glossary, information on historical figures, a chronological table, and links to additional resources.
Black Ships and Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan (1853-1854), MIT
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027j/black_ships_and_samurai/bss_intro.html
An MIT open source site on Japanese-American interactions at the time of Commodore Perry's arrival in Japan in 1853 with excellent visual material and good historical commentary by John Dower.
Japan and the Allied Occupation, Ohio State University
http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/japan/sitemap.html
An extensive array of images and documents from the Allied Occupation of Japan. The images are sorted by region, with a focus on Tokyo and rural areas. The documents include a history of the Supreme Commander of Allied Powers (SCAP), SCAP documents, and letters from Japan during the Occupation.
“Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960-1976,” Digital National Security Archive
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB175/index.htm
This collection includes over 2,000 government documents related to US-Japan relations. Includes information about documents and a historical overview. In order to view documents, users must be able to access the ProQuest database.