For Language Learning

• Japanese-English/English-Japanese Dictionaries
• Other Japanese Language Learning Tools on Web
• Course Offerings for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs)
• Japanese Freeware Projects from Purdue University
• Stroke Order Drills for Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji
• Kanji, counter, ect. exercise
• a variety of useful teaching material
• Dictionary-like system
• AutoGloss/J Ver. 1.0
• MailGloss
• Reading Tutor Homepage
• Kanji stroke order drill

 

• CBB Mellon Japanese
• Japanese ThinkQuest Library (useful info. compiled by subscribers)
• Asia Food Homepage
• Japanese Newspapers:
• The Asahi (a comprehensive coverage in English)
• Nikkei (with a focus on economics in English)
• Yomiuri (a comprehensive coverage in Japanese)
• Japan Information
• Japanese Songs (courtesy of Professor Keiko Ofuji at Bates College)

• Job, Internship, Scholarship, and Fellowship Opportunities

• Japan Foundation New York office
• Japanese Embassies and Consulates
• Japanese Studies Network Forum

• Japanese Bookstore in Boston
• Japanese Restaurants and Food Stores in Maine

• Listserve
• Web Resources

• NCJT (The National Council of Japanese Teachers)
• Senseionline (Japanese Language Teacher's Association)
• AJLS (Association for Japanese Literary Studies)
• ERIC CLL Language and Linguistics Link : Online Newsletter

 
ATJ: Association of Teachers of Japanese.
http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj

AsiaSource:A daily digest of Asia-related news.
http://www.asiasource.org/

Castles of Japan
Contains pictures and descriptions of Japan with maps.
 http://magi.com/~ttoyooka/oshiro/

CBB Mellon Japanese
A comprehensive index for learning and teaching Japanese language and culture.  http://www.colby.edu/lang.tech/languages/japanese/japanese.html

The International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)
For academic research exchange:
http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/
 http://www-japan.mit.edu

JPOLL
Free access to 325 surveys on public opinions of the Japanese people..
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/jpoll/home.html

Japanese Info.
Japanese news, geography, culture, travel, and more
http://www.ntt.co.jp/japan/
http://www.ntt.co.jp/index.html

Japanese Gardens Database
Japanese garden related site, with upcoming event and dates as well as links to Japanse gardens.
 http://pobox.upenn.edu/~cheetham/jgarden/index.html

Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission
An independent federal agency.
 http://www2.dgsys.com/~jusfc/

Nakama homepage
http://www.uiowa.edu/~japanese/NAKAMA/index.html

Sakuragaoka Girl's Jr. & Sr. High School
The homepage Brett Reynolds, an English teacher at this Tokyo school.
  http://www.esl.sakuragaoka.ac.jp/teachers/br
 

 
Prof. Masako Nakagawa
http://www.homepage.villanova.edu/masako.nakagawa

Prof. Mayumi Ishida
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mayumi/

Prof. Yoshiko Maruyama
http://classes.yale.edu/japn140-2%20a/

Prof. Naoko Nemoto
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/cou%20rses/nnemoto

Prof. Peipei Qiu
http://depts.va%20ssar.edu/~asianst/qiu/japanesetoc.html

Prof. Takako Shigehisa
http://oak.conncoll.~tshi.%20inuse.index.html/

Prof. Keiko Ofuji's Page
http://www.bates.edu/~kofuji/

Prof. Keiko Schneider's Page
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks

Prof. Kazumi Hatasa's Page
Good source for software and information
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/default.html

 
Japanese Search Engines
A comprehensive index for searching, subscribing, and navigating.
http://www.atrium.com/ad/search.html

WWW servers in Japan
List of prefectures, cities, and towns throughout Japan, as well as schools.
Good page to get ideas and information on Japan and its schools.
http://www.bandai.com/

JP Net
A network and information page for Japanese Netscape users.
http://www-japan.mit.edu/

Japanese Translation Network (JTN)
Information on getting translators and also on software.
 http://www.jtnw.com/index.html

Japanese Yahoo
Everything is the same as the English Yahoo, except that everything is in Japanese.
 http://www.yahoo.co.jp/

Kanji Invader
Learn all the kanji in Nakama 1 and 2 in a game format.
G3 machines are recommended.
 http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/KanjiInvader/KanjiInvader.html