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.
Irasshai gets up close and intimate with video learners through the easy, engaging manner of Dr. Tim Cook, the course instructor. Tim takes students on a personal journey to where Japanese is spoken, sometimes to predictable places-inside a Japanese home or an office building in Tokyo. Sometimes the places are less predictable, such as a sushi bar in Atlanta or a fishing hole in the … [ Read more ]
Source: Georgia Public Broadcasting | Subject: Video / Audio
“Stippy” is an association of foreigners who have lived in Japan for so long that Japan now seems home. Stippy members know Japan more than some Japanese, and they want to tell you about this country from a Gaijins point of view. This homepage will be updated frequently with insightful explanations on the different, strange, and the down right weird parts of Japan that you … [ Read more ]
Source: Various | Subject: Blogs
For those of you interested in some of the less well-known manners surrounding chopstick usage, check out these survey results.
Source: What Japan Thinks / goo Ranking | Subject: Culture
This site provides a widget that you can use to include a random kanji in your blog (or any website).
Source: Joseph McDermott | Subject: Software / Tools
A blog that covers a variety of topics about learning Japanese with an emphasis on studying with the Nintendo DS.
Sources: Chris, Matt, Shane | Subject: Blogs
With this online dictionary you can lookup the details and pronunciations of Kanji. Each Kanji is presented by a grade, a stroke count, an enlarging image with Kyokasho (Kyoukasho) font, stroke order, radical, English meaning, On-yomi (phonetic reading), Kun-yomi (native Japanese reading), the example of each reading, and special reading. Moreover, each Kanji has audio files so you can listen to the pronunciation of the … [ Read more ]
Source: Saiga | Subject: Translate
Why is anonymous group suicide so popular in Japan?
Source: The Atlantic Monthly / David Samuels | Subject: Culture
Harvey Beasley has produced a new blog based on the idea of learning Japanese through print ads and posters. Japanese Ads features one ad per post and Harvey’s dissection of the meaning and cultural nuance therein. It is, like all great ideas, simple in its elegance and a great way to learn Japanese in the context of real word usage. Harvey does a great … [ Read more ]
Source: Harvey Beasley | Subject: Reading Material
Joeisjapanese is an animated series about haafu Joe McCunney’s adventures in Japan – witty, dry and based on reality if you believe the advertising. At the moment there is only a single long teaser clip on the site, but well worth a look, and the English subtitles will help beginners follow along. High production values and good writing. [courtesy of Nihongojouzu.com]
Source: Joeisjapanese.com | Subjects: Anime / Manga, Multimedia, Video / Audio
FREE Japan Classifieds website. Find and post jobs in Japan, personals, sayonara sales and more.
Source: Dan | Subject: Classified Ads
A fast-growing list of gastronomic indignities — from sham sake in Paris to shoddy sashimi in Bangkok — has prompted Japanese authorities to launch a counterattack in defense of this nation’s celebrated food culture. With restaurants around the globe describing themselves as Japanese while actually serving food that is Asian fusion, or just plain bad, the government here announced a plan this month to offer … [ Read more ]
Source: Washington Post / Anthony Faiola | Subject: Food
NJ contains regular sections, interspersed with feature and seasonal articles. The regular columns:
* NJ News
* Kanji Breakthrough
* Passing the JETRO Business Japanese Test
* Composition Clinic – improve your written Japanese
* Passing the JLPT
* Reading Time
* Using Manga to Improve Conversation
Most of the articles are either bilingual or have English language explanations sprinkled here and there, but the layout … [ Read more ]
Source: ALC Press | Subjects: Language Study, Reading Material
Will at Nihongojouzu.com offers up his strategies for finding good Japanese video content on YouTube.
Source: Nihongojouz.com / Will | Subject: Video / Audio
Looking for some light reading material? Try the letters page of the Yomiuri Shinbun. The letters make a great read because:
* they are free of painfully difficult kanji
* the writing is conversational and straightforward
* they are not too long
* we all like to read about things going wrong in other peoples’ lives
The subject matter varies from the mundane to the depressing … [ Read more ]
Source: Yomiuri Shinbun | Subject: Reading Material
Companion to an exhibit about Sadako Sasaki, who was “born in 1943 and experienced the [Hiroshima] bombing at age two [and died in 1955]. She was healthy and athletically gifted growing up, but ten years after the bombing, she was suddenly hospitalized. The diagnosis was leukemia. One day, a thousand paper cranes arrived at the hospital. … This inspired her to begin folding her own.” … [ Read more ]
Source: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum | Subject: History
A java-based tool to review/drill the JLPT kanji by level (well, at least levels 2,3,4). Test on-yomi, kun-yomi, or meanings (english-japanese or japanese-english).
Sources: Akemi Sano, Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo / Roger Meyer, Keiko Higuchi | Subject: JLPT Exam
Babel Fish is a well-known site that will allow you to translate a block of text or a web page. I leave it to you to decide how accurate it is…
Source: altavista | Subject: Translate
Lingo24 would like more graduates to enter translation and the language services industry in general, and to this end has created a career guide to translation for languages graduates (and indeed other people with language skills).
We are integrating this guide with the Lingo24 Community (our interactive forum) and Lingo’s own staff members will work with other Community members to answer any questions students or graduates … [ Read more ]
Source: lingo24 | Subject: Employment / Career
Background about Iva Toguri d’Aquino, who died in September 2006 and was most identified with “Tokyo Rose,” a “fabricated name given by soldiers to a series of American-speaking women who made propaganda broadcasts” in the South Pacific during World War II. Includes a description of her early life (she was born in Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA) and of her presidential pardon in 1977. … [ Read more ]
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) | Subject: History
This game shows you an English word and asks you to type in the Japanese (you can hear the Japanese word and character as you click on the Kana keys).
Source: Language Express | Subject: Vocabulary / Phrases