As I was looking for resources for my curriculum project I came across the University of Tennessee- Chattanooga' Asia Program. There is a section titled Japan Teaching Module and there its a plethora of information on Japan. The information is broken down into "components" and "parts." Once you click on a specific section you are interested in you are then led to a pdf document that you can download if you'd like. The pdf then has a brief document with information and many of them have visuals. You can also go the the section titled, Lesson Plans from 2015 East Asia PD and find a number of lesson plans. For example, I chose to look at the lesson titled, “WWII Unit: Lesson 2” and you can download the word doc with the lesson plan for this specific section. I would use this website if I need to find or use Japanese related information. It's worth a look.

http://www.utc.edu/asia-program/resources/2015lessonplans.php