Japanese
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Typing and Displaying Japanese Characters
| Asian Languages Word-Processing | Word processing in Japanese and other Asian languages. |
| How to display Japanese | |
| Email & WWW for Asian Languages | Displaying Japanese characters, decoding and sending emails in Japanese. |
| Japanese-kanji.com | Learn and drill the Japanese Kanji. |
| Kanji alive | A tool for searching and displaying kanji. |
Online Courses and Exercises
| Easy Japanese | An introduction to the Japanese writing system, Japanese verbs and adjectives, phrases, particles, and some useful structures. |
| Genki Online | An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese. |
| Elementary Japanese Language Course | 34 Lessons that include audio files, Kanji worksheets, Vocabulary Trainer and dictionary. |
| Genki Exercises | Twenty-three lessons with Japanese vocabulary exercises. |
| Japanese Lessons | For all kinds of people, with different levels of proficiency and purposes, with sound files. |
| Japanese Flashcards | |
| Kantango | A site devoted to teaching Japanese vocabulary. |
| The Japanese Page | Free Japanese Online Lessons, Podcasts, Videos, and more! |
| University of Minnesota Online Course Materials |
Reference Materials and Dictionaries
| Learning Japanese Online at U of Minnesota | Pronunciation, listening, grammar, society and more |
| Kanji Alive | Kanji alive is a free, web-based tool to help beginning and intermediate level Japanese language learners to read and write kanji. Cross-platform and does not require any Japanese fonts. |
| Japanese language learning tools on Web | Site put together by a former instructor of Japanese at the University of New Mexico and the owner of Saboten Web Design |
| University of Oregon Yamada Language Center | YLC language and culture resources and links |
Culture and Society
| Facts about Japan | Includes historical and popular cultural information about Japan. |
| Japanese.about.com | Information about various aspects of Japanese culture and society. |
Search Engines
| Altavista | |
| Yahoo!Asia | |
| Mamma | |
Newspapers
| Asahi | |
| CNN Japan | |
| Mainichi | |
| Yomiuri |
Magazines
| Nipponia |
Radio
| Comfm.com | Links to many Japanese radio statons. |
| J Wave | |
| NHK | Radio Japan Online. |
Television
| ANN News | |
| NHK | |
| NNN - News 24 | |
| TBS News i | |
| Yomiuri |
Universities and Schools
| Etextshop.com | Links to online universities, colleges, and schools. |
| Sussex Language Institute | Japanese links |
| University of Minnesota Online Course Materials | |
| Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota | |
| Japanese Language Program at the University of Minnesota |
Miscellaneous
| Language Exchange Project | Find a Japanese language partner who is a native speaker in the language you are studying to help them as they are studying English |
| Japanese Kanji podcast | This link opens in iTunes. Kanji podcast from Emory University. |
| Language Exchange: The Mixxer | A way to connect via skype with other Japanese speakers to do a language exchange |
| Language Learning with Livemocha | A free online language program that connects you to native speakers |
| The New York Times: Learning from a Native Speaker | A New York Times article about the merits of various online live language exchange programs such as Livemocha |
