675 Posts Found

The Japanese language, both spoken and written.

Source: sci.lang.japan | Subject: Newsgroups

Want to learn or improve your Japanese? Tune in, listen, repeat, and learn. Improve your listening comprehension, speaking, build your vocabulary, or learn some new expressions. nihongo.fm Radio plays up-to-date, useful Japanese words, phrases and expressions.

Source: nihongo.com | Subject: Video / Audio

Links to various Internet radio servers featuring the Japanese language.

Source: live365.com | Subjects: Multimedia, Video / Audio

Live and on demand internet video – I haven’t really used the site so I can’t discuss the quality of content.

Source: TFM Interactive,Inc | Subjects: Multimedia, Video / Audio

streaming audio from fm osaka.

Source: fmosaka,net | Subjects: Music – General, Video / Audio

Japanese Indies radio & Owarai (comedy)

Source: KZI.COM | Subjects: Music – General, Video / Audio

The Tokyo Food Page is a complete guide to Japanese cuisine and eating in Japan. With great recipes, tours of Japanese markets, and tips on the best places to eat in Tokyo and Yokohama.

Source: bento.com | Subject: Food

Provides extensive legislative information in Japan. You can search in both Japanese and English.

Source: lawresearchservices.com | Subject: Government and Politics

This site is geared to helping you learn kanji, kana, and japanese vocabulary, with occasional articles about Japan thrown in. Menu items include:
– Kanji
– Kana
– JLPT vocabulary
– Games
– Lessons
– Reviews
– Downloads
– Culture
– Forum
– Blog

Source: japanese-kanji.org | Subject: Kanji

KingKanji is an award winning Japanese / kanji flashcard program that emphasizes writing as well as reading. It includes stroke animation and automatic feedback for over 1,200 characters including first through sixth grade Joyo kanji and kana. A flashcard may contain single or multiple kanji and kana along with the English meaning. Over 294 lessons are included and additional kanji lessons can be created using … [ Read more ]

Source: Gakusoft | Subject: Software / Tools

A Japanese learning site for use on a Japanese mobile phone designed for non-native speakers. Includes EJ Dictionaries, Kanji Lookup tools, PhraseBooks, Quiz games, reading articles plus a heap more.

Editor’s Note: this is a fee-based service, but it is just 300 yen per month…

Source: Enfour | Subject: Products

This site claims to be a one-stop shop for all your Japanese language needs. It isn’t that, but it does have some interesting articles, interviews, and reviews.

Source: David Lam Centre for International Communication | Subject: Culture

These pages have been developed by the students of Kyoto Sangyo University for non-Japanese who would like to learn about famous personages in modern-day Japan. The people selected for these pages reflect the interests and opinions of university-age Japanese students.

Source: Thomas Robb | Subject: Culture

Japanorama supplies Japan-related products and information to Japanophiles throughout the world. The site is mostly collections of Amazon affiliate links, but there are some free downloads, especially free e-books and screen savers that might be worthwhile.

Source: Japanorama | Subject: Culture

NIPPONIA is a quarterly magazine which
introduces modern Japan to people all over the world. It appears that the last issue was from 2005 but the site is still active and the archives are accessible.

Source: Heibonsha Ltd. | Subject: News / Magazine

grab a handful of Japanese fonts on this site…

Source: dafont.com | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Software / Tools

healthhokkaido’s symptom translator lets you choose a list of your symptoms and have them translated into a printer friendly bilingual format that you can take to the doctor.

Source: healthhokkaido | Subject: Vocabulary / Phrases

Whether they be 200-year-old teahouses or modern-day coffee shops, “kissaten” (traditional cafes) hold a special place in Japan’s national psyche. The latest incarnation of this noble trend, “manga kissa,” play host to a round-the-clock procession of no-nonsense businessmen, bashful teenage couples, students and parents who can leave the kids at the on-site nursery and indulge in a quick fix of manga and mocha or even … [ Read more ]

Source: crisscross / David Hickey | Subject: Travel & Tourism

Companion to “the first in-depth presentation of vintage prints from the late Los Angeles photographer’s 1945 journey through post-war Japan. Shot during a three-and-a-half-week period, Swope’s photographs vividly document the impact of World War II on the local population.” Also includes highlights from Swope’s career as a Hollywood photographer. Features a dozen selected images. From the Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, at the … [ Read more ]

Source: Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center / John Swope | Subject: Images

Breaking down terrestrial boundaries, speaking the international language of rhythm, samurai.fm is your gateway to a new international soundscape.

Featuring the freshest sounds from the international scene as well as the finest home grown talent from Japan, we act as a portal for Japan to the rest of the world and the rest of the world to Japan.

Not sticking to one kind of music we simply … [ Read more ]

Source: samurai.fm | Subjects: Multimedia, Video / Audio