I am a digital nomad and entrepreneur specializing in the curation of online information focused on the fields of business and travel. I run numerous websites, including MBA Depot, MBA Boost, Management Ideas, dado que and Lengthy Travel. I received my MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Welcome to the NHK World Japanese Lessons web site!
NHK airs Japanese lessons for people of various languages on its international shortwave RADIO JAPAN service. On this site, you can listen to those lessons.
Languages included: English, Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, German, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Malay, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese
Source: NHK | Subject: Online Lessons
A nice comprehensive site about Japan. Find topics including:
– Sightseeing guides
– Hotel search
– A job search feature
– Cellular Phones in Japan
– Travel News
– Living in Japan
– Information pages
– Forums
– Shopping and Business
– Photo Gallery
Make sure you also check out the members area where you can search for penpals and place/view … [ Read more ]
Source: Kinboshi Media | Subject: Comprehensive
WWOOF Japan allows travelers to stay at places around Japan, receive meals, boarding, and learning with the local people at no cost, in return for helping the people with their work.
By the way, WWOOF originally stood for ‘Weekend Workers on Organic Farms’
Source: WWOOF Japan | Subject: Miscellaneous | Other
A collection of over thirty photographs of nineteenth century Japan. Includes images of dance, and gates of temples and shrines in Nikko. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside.
Source: California Museum of Photography | Subject: Images
Offers lyrics (mostly romaji with some English translations) sorted by artist. Also has links to other lyrics sites.
Source: Cori & Les Inc. | Subject: Lyrics
A pretty good collection of lyrics to popular Japanese pop music songs. No real rhyme or reason to their selections and some of the links don’t work properly but still a good site to check.
Source: Unknown | Subject: Lyrics
A decent collection of romanized lyrics to a variety of Japanese popular music. Also contains Top 50 lists and some useful links.
Source: Pinky | Subject: Lyrics
Seventeen free online lessons to teach the beginnings of reading Japanese. Introduces hiragana and katakana in early lessons and kanji in later lessons, building your vocabulary and knowledge. Includes links to software and other sites for Japanese.
Source: Sonia Murphy | Subjects: Kanji, Language Study
This site is a bit odd but useful for finding different Japanese fonts to use with your computer.
Source: Pete | Subjects: Language Study, Software / Tools
Kansai Ben is a dialect of Kansai area,and the most powerful dialect. Learn more about it here (though the site is not too extensive)
Source: Hidetoshi Tokumaru | Subject: Miscellaneous | Other
Illegal CD copying and fan boredom clobber sales.
Source: BusinessWeek / Chester Dawson | Subject: Business / Economy
part of the Japanese-Online site, not huge voume but when I checked the entries seemed to be very recent and steady.
Source: PSPINC | Subject: Connecting (Groups, Forums, Language Exchange, Meetups, etc.)
This company sells a variety of Japanese language computing solutions for people in the U.S. While some, like their KanjiKit seem irrelevant with the latest versions of Windows and office, some, like their Meishi-Port (the first English and Japanese business card scanner with OCR) seem interesting. They also sell a couple of educational programs to learn Kanji.
Source: Pacific Software Publishing Inc. | Subjects: Kanji, Products
Japanese Jobs is an Internet based employment service that is dedicated to bringing a global community of bilingual professionals who speak Japanese and English together with hiring companies.
Source: Japanese Jobs | Subject: Employment / Career
Established in 1997, Asia-Net has been serving Asia/Pacific-Rim business communities by helping professionals locate job opportunities, while providing companies the premier on-line recruitment service.
The Asia-Net community comprises over 140,000 professionals with unique ties to Asia, i.c., Asian nationals, people of Asian heritage (including first, second, and third generation Asian Americans), and others with professional interests in Asia/Pacific-Rim.
Source: Japanese Jobs | Subject: Employment / Career
This store has been Northern California’s premier Asian goods store for almost 100 years but you can also order their products online to have shipped. Product categories include: Martial Arts, Fabrics, Fashion, Home Decor, Crafts, Books, and For the Kids.
Source: Nichi Bei Bussan | Subject: Products
A thorough set of links on all aspects of Japan. Featured resources include:
– NIPPONIA, a quarterly magazine introducing contemporary Japanese culture and society to people all over the world
– Trends in Japan, short, engaging dispatches on the latest trends in Japanese business and economy; science and education; society; sports; and fashion, arts, and entertainment.
– Japan Access, concise introductions of … [ Read more ]
Source: Japan Information Network | Subject: Comprehensive
Atlantic Monthly article argues that behind Japan’s economic woes is a worse social crisis; discusses the idea of ethno-economics.
Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subject: Business / Economy
This site is an absolute god-send for those studying Japanese! I live by it. Use it as a simple dictionary or use its much more advanced features which include:
– Translate (great for inputting an entire email sent to you in Japanese for example)
– Find Kanji (multiple methods)
– Handwritten Interface
– Mobile phone access
– Check out … [ Read more ]
Source: Jim Breen | Subject: Translate
Claims to be the prime resource for Kanji learners but mostly exalts the (admittedly quite good) Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (KALD). I recommend you check out the Guide to the Japanese Writing System section.
Source: Kanji Dictionary Publishing Society (KDPS) | Subject: Kanji