About this Website

To navigate around the website, please choose from the above main menu and from its corresponding submenus on the left side. Arrows at the end of submenu lines indicate further submenus that will display by moving the cursor over it. To get a good view over the entire website, have a look at the sitemap, and if you like to take a "roundtrip" through the entire website, please follow the links "go to next page >" at the bottom of each page.

All pages are both in English and in Japanese. To get to its corresponding page, just click on the language button in the upper left corner.

The encoding throughout the web site is set to UTF-8. This makes it possible to display West- and East-European characters as well as real "macron" characters (Ā, Ī, Ū, Ē, Ō, ā, ī, ū, ē, ō) which are being used in the Japanese rōmaji alphabet to indicate long vowels, and of course also Japanese characters.

The website is best viewed with the latest browser versions of Firefox (PC, Mac, Linux), Safari (Mac), Internet Explorer (PC) and others that have build-in JavaScript and CSS capabilities. For minimum system requirements, you need a screen with a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. To view and print PDF files, please use a PDF browser plug-in or download and install the Acrobat Reader software.