Reference material available here:
| HyperCard scripts to search and replace text | autoReplace.html |
| list of 256 kanji in traditional and simplified forms; explanation | kyukanji kyukanji_notes |
| Meiji, Taisho, Showa and Heisei calendar conversion | mtsh |
| Japanese era names from 650 onwards in standard Japanese encoding or Unicode |
nengo nengo-utf8 |
| chronological list of classical Japanese works (just a fragment, for more lists of title see pmjs site trans. index) |
sakuhin |
tools/reference available elsewhere
Internet Resources for Asian Studies: very useful report by Cathy Chiu on AsianDoc.
For Chinese dates see Chinese and Gregorian calendar