NIAES has opened an English Home Page (http://www.naro.affrc.go.jp/archive/niaes/index_e.html) from May, 1995 (renewed on April, 2001) and has released relevant information on the institute and a useful WWW image database on agricultural environments such as a Distribution Maps of Net Primary Productivity (NPP) of Natural Vegetation and Related Climatic Resources, and Ecosystem Database.