430 Posts Found

ChannelJ is a broadband Internet television station focused on Japanese politics, economy, culture. It’s available in both Japanese and English.

Source: ChannelJ Co. Ltd. | Subjects: Multimedia, Video / Audio

Japanize is a Firefox plugin which translates popular English websites into Japanese. [Hat tip to Nihongojouzu.com]

Source: 31tools.com | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Software / Tools

Read what Harvey has to say about studying, living, and working in Japan.

Source: Harvey | Subject: Miscellaneous | Other

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

Japanese Indies radio & Owarai (comedy)

Source: KZI.COM | Subjects: Music – General, 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

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

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

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

Jonathon Delacour offers a blog post on reading/writing Japanese with various computer systems and with Movable Type blog software.

Source: Jonathon Delacour | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Software / Tools

The MIT Japan Program was established in 1981 with a small number of MIT students in science, engineering, and, later management. After spending two years learning the Japanese language these students were placed as interns in Japanese organizations: most of them stayed there for at least a year. From that small group, we grew. Up to now, over seven hundred young people went to Japan … [ Read more ]

Source: MIT | Subject: Schools

The home for MIT class 24.946. This course is a detailed examination of the grammar of Japanese and its structure which is significantly different from English, with special emphasis on problems of interest in the study of linguistic universals. Data from a broad group of languages is studied for comparison with Japanese. This course assumes familiarity with linguistic theory.

Source: MIT | Subject: Miscellaneous | Other

The Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese is a canonical classic of the Internet community. Posted years ago on the sci.lang.japan newsgroup, this guide appears in a multitude of pages written by folks such as myself, devoted to the learning of the Japanese language.

Usually the guide is presented in a plain-text-only format. I recall running across a similarly html-lized version a year or two ago, … [ Read more ]

Sources: John Teehan, Tad Perry | Subject: Grammar

JapaneseTeaching.org . . . the site for information on teaching and learning the Japanese language and on professional organizations involved in Japanese language education.

Source: Alliance of Associations of Teachers of Japanese | Subject: Teaching / Tutoring

Japanese students wrote English explanations of the meanings of their Japanese names. All of the kanji is given in caligraphy-style images. You can also get your name translated into Kanji.

Source: Bill Pellowe | Subject: Kanji