Japanese Reference
Japanese-related
- Denshi Jisho — Online Japanese Dictionary
- Find words, kanji, or sentences.
- Jim Breen’s Japanese Page
- This site is loaded with useful links and activities related to language, culture, and computing in Japanese, etc.
- Houghton Mifflin Japanese Language Resource Center
- Culture and history, music, radio and TV, news and magazines, literature, language learning, etc.
- Japanese for the Western Brain
- Grammar explanations from a different perspective.
- Japanese Translator: Your Name in Japanese
- Get your name translated into katakana.
- Jim Breen’s WWWJDIC Japanese Dictionary Server
- Translate Japanese text, search for words in the dictionary, find kanji, etc.
- Kanji Alive
- A program for reading and writing kanji that does not require Japanese fonts to be installed on your computer.
- Keiko Schneider’s Bookmarks
- Language learning tools, news and media, computing in Japanese, teaching English in Japan, etc.
- Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL) Map Collection
- View maps of areas all over the world, including various regions, countries, continents, and the world. It also has a links to historical maps.
- Rikai
- Read webpages or text in Japanese by getting vocabulary and grammar help. Paste in your text or URL and mouse over unknown words or characters.
Search Engines
Japanese version of Google and Yahoo! Their common functions will help you going through the fun of discovery and review of your Japanese!