Useful Links for Students (and Teachers) by Makoto Netsu & Maki Watanabe

Categories are sorted in an alphabetical order. Press Ctrl+F to find a word in this page. (Macintosh: Command+F)

Anime and Manga

Doraemon Channel http://dora-world.com/ グリーティングカード: You can send a Doraemon e-card. 四次元チャンネル: You can read Doraemon manga at Comic Channel. ゲームチャンネル: You can play games. Shonen Jump http://jump.shueisha.co.jp/ One Piece: Click on X on the map to go to a typing game. シャーマンキング: Go to ふんばりの詩 for a short manga. テニスの王子様: Go to青春学園生徒手帳for profiles. Shonen Jump (US) http://www.shonenjump.com Download Manga desktop wallpaper くれよんしんちゃん http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/shin chan/ おもちゃばこ: You can play Shin chan Uranai, and a room viewer via バックナンバーいちらんひょう page. しんちゃんめいぼ: You can see pictures and profiles of characters. Cartoon Network (Character Data) http://www.cartoon.co.jp/program/characters.html American cartoon character data in Japanese Mangarama http://www.ak.cradle.titech.ac.jp/Rise/top.htm

Radio / TV / Music

AZNV http://aznv.tv/en/ Live Radio and Television from Japan http://broadcast-live.com/japan.html Truveo video search http://www.truveo.com/ Japanese Popular Music with Subtitles http://web.mit.edu/condry/www/#mm

Book Stores

Asahiya Bookstore USA http://www.asahiyausa.com JP Trading http://www.jptrading.com Hakubundo, Inc.(Hawaii) 1600 Kapiolani Boulevard Suite 121, Honolulu, HI 96814 Tel:(808)947-5503/Fax:(808)947-5602/ E-mail: hakubundo@hakubundo.com Kinokuniya Bookstore http://www.kinokuniya.com Sasuga Japanese Bookstore http://www.sasugabooks.com Sawtelle Book (West Los Angeles, California) 2105 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025. Tel: (310)477-8686/ Fax: (310)473-4024

Clip Arts

Minna No Kyozai Site http://momiji.jpf.go.jp/kyozai/English/Resources/Photo/Index.php Microsoft Design Gallery Live http://office.microsoft.com/japan/DesignGallery/default.aspx Schoolicons http://www.schoolicons.com/web/index.html Good for stickers and Shoojoo. Discovery School's Clip Art Gallery http://school.discovery.com/clipart/ Kodomo Gumi http://www.kodomogumi.net/ 日本: Color maps of world and Japan, and a list of Japanese traditional color names. Map Link http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA017536/world/map.htm Links of web sites where you can find maps.

Clip Arts for Web

Royalty-Free Clip Art Collection for Foreign/Second Language Instruction  http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/japanproj/FLClipart/ Clip arts of Verbs, Adjectives, Nouns in Category UVic's Language Teaching Clipart Library  http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/clipart/ Web Clip Art http://school.discovery.com/clipart/ Links of web clip arts Cilicon Cafe http://www.siliconcafe.com/gtool/ Clip arts Photo GIF animations Favicon http://homepage3.nifty.com/diu/ Face icons よろづ、ぢうごや http://www.ma-fa.com/ Flag icons GIF animations Nishio Yuko http://www.shoppy.net/yuko/ もってけ: Funny and cute GIF animations Ugoku Gif Sozaishuu http://www.ne.jp/asahi/komori/ugoku/ GIF animations

Cooking and Food

Bob & Angie http://www.bob-an.com/ Database of recipes Japanese Food (Japan-Guide.Com) http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e620.html Recipes for Japanese food in English Tokyo Food Page http://www.bento.com/tokyofood.html Recipes for Japanese food in English 食生活チェック http://www.central.co.jp/health-info/check/foods.html 小学校の給食室 http://www.nikonet.or.jp/~kana55go/ Information and photo images of school lunch and kitchen in Japan.

Daily Activity (Time)

一日の生活スケジュール http://www.db.ics.keio.ac.jp/~seto/life.html 一日の生活の流れ(幼稚園） http://www1.odn.ne.jp/taiyo/itiniti.htm

Dictionary and Translator

Internet Resources http://dir.kotoba.jp/dic_gloss.cgi?pwd=2&DT=D&DC=100&LC=100&fsz=2 Links of online dictionary sites

Reading Tutor http://language.tiu.ac.jp/ Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html Jisyo.Org http://www.jisyo.org/ Rikai.Com http://www.rikai.com/ Eijiroo http://www.alc.co.jp/ FOKS Intelligent Dictionary Interface http://www.foks.info/

Alta Vista http://world.altavista.com/tr Excite Text Translator http://www.excite.co.jp/world/text/ Excite Web Translator http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url/ World Lingo http://www.worldlingo.com/microsoft/computer_translation.html

Kanji Furigana (Hiragana) for Japanese Learners http://sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/sp/lesson/j/doc/furigana.html This tool adds furigana to a web page れじぶるN.C.. http://www.nicer.go.jp/ Go to NICER page and click "学ぶ

E-Card

Ynot e-Card http://greeting.rakuten.co.jp/migration/start/ Doraemon Channel http://dora-world.com/ グリーティングカード: You can send a Doraemon e-card. Japan Poem http://www.japanpoem.com/ Message with a Japanese poem. You can choose a poem and image, and customize the image, effects on it, and a sound. Net Card http://www.netcard.ne.jp/index.html

Environment

ワケルくん http://www.city.sendai.jp/kankyou/resaikuru/wakerukun/ ワケルンジャー http://www.city.fukui.lg.jp/d120/kohou/wakeru/index.html

Culture / Anthropology / Current Events

The Japanese Roots http://www.kimsoft.com/2004/japanese_roots.htm Visualizing Cultures http://visualizingcultures.mit.edu Japan Focus http://www.japanfocus.org/ All about kagami mochi http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/explore/calendar/index.html

Language Learning / Exercises

Language Lab http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/language/index.html Japanese lessons with sounds. Learn Japanese on the Web http://www.coscom.co.jp/j-index.html Sample exercises with sounds. LESSON/J (Iwate University) http://sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/sp/lesson/j/ Database of dictation quizzes Genki Japan http://genkienglish.net/genkijapan/japanese.htm Maythings.org: Charles Kelly's Online Japanese Language Study Materials http://www.manythings.org/japanese/ Quiz on Commonly-Used Japanese Adjectives http://www.manythings.org/japanese/vocabulary/adj.html Randomly Chosen Japanese Words for (Kanji) Reading Practice http://www.manythings.org/c/r2.cgi/edict Language Plus http://www.languageplus.com.au/J_Index.php Japanese Online http://www.japanese-online.com/ Kanji Practice http://www.dartmouth.edu/~kanji/ Kanji Alive http://kanjialive.lib.uchicago.edu/main.php?page=overview&lang=en Hiragana Practice http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/sheaa/projects/hiragana.html

Language Learning Podcasts

Japanesepod 101 http://www.japanesepod101.com Podcasting for Nakama http://www.kshinagawa.com/podcast/nakamav01/

Family

家紋のページ http://www.asgy.co.jp/kamon_menu.html 磯野家の家系図 http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~TK7M-ARI/sazae_family_tree.html Family tree of the Isono's, a family in "Sazae-san" 多摩動物園コアラ家系図 http://www.gws.ne.jp/tama-city/tama-zoo/australia/3/3-family.html Family tree of the coalas in Tama Zoo ファミリー家系図 http://www2f.biglobe.ne.jp/~DEVO/NEKO/KAKEI/ka_top.htm Cat's family tree

About Homestays

At Home in Japan http://athome.nealrc.org/

Flash Animation

A Little Picture Book http://www.kamonegi.com/hinata/contents/cobook.html Links of picture books. 星工房: No sound. You can have students make a story. 新伝兵衛劇場: Interactive stories. Ehon Link http://www.ask.ne.jp/~mizuki/ehon.html Links of e-picture books Ryudon World http://ryudonburi.net/ Animations and audio resources of mukashi banash

Fun

Let's Try Origami (Kids Web Japan) http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/virtual/origami2/index.html Instruction with animation in English Origami Tanteidan http://www.origami.gr.jp/Model/index.html おりがみ占い: Fortune telling and origami instructions with images in Japanese

Furniture (Location)

Nissy's Interior Planning Service http://www.xte.com/igs/planning/sasaki_sama/index.html Photo images of layouts Nitori (商品紹介）http://www.nitori.co.jp/index.html Sample images of rooms with furniture

Games

Ultimate Kana Challenge http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj Kids Web Japan http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/games/index.html Jigsaw puzzle of Japan Mini Game Sozai http://www18.big.or.jp/~neon2/ Fun fortunetelling One Piece Puch De Typing http://jump.shueisha.co.jp/one/game/index.html Good practice for typing Doraemon Channel http://dora-world.com/ ゲームチャンネル: You can play games.

Grammar

Visualizing Japanese Grammar (Shoko Hamano - GWU) This page provides links to 66 Flash animations of various grammatical structures in Japanese and 12 downloadable appendices. http://www.gwu.edu/~eall/vjg/vjghomepage/vjghome.htm The Japanese Language Properties (Prof. Miyagawa, MIT) http://web.mit.edu/jpnet/articles/JapaneseLanguage.html Basic knowledge of Japanese langauge

Literature/Reading

Aozora Bunko http://www.aozora.gr.jp/ E-library of books whose copyright has been expired. Good source of advanced reading materials. Genji Daigaku http://www.genji-daigaku.com/ All about "Tale of Genji". Heidi Picture Book http://www.heidi.ne.jp/hp/index.html Mangarama http://www.ak.cradle.titech.ac.jp/Rise/top.htm Learn Japanese with manga

Asunaro http://hinoki.ryu.titech.ac.jp/ Reading lessons for technical Japanese learners. Professor Ujie's HP http://home.wlu.edu/~ujiek/1.jpn.html Collections of reading materials. Reading Tutor http://language.tiu.ac.jp/ Database of reading materials with a dictionary tool. Reading Miyazawa Kenji http://trc.ucdavis.edu/dwfahy/reading/

Movie (M=Media Player, Q=Quick Time Player, R=Real Player)

(Biglobe Search Result) JAL TV (M and R) Otsuka Adview (M and R) 日立の樹 FUJIFILM TV-CM Index (Q or R) Kincho CM情報 (M and Q) ロートCFライブラリー (M or R) NEC CM Gallery (M) CM探索隊 (M or Q) http://www.cmjapan.com/ See 「CM検索」 for seaching Japanese CM

G-One Streaming Theater (M) http://www.g-one-net.co.jp/theater/index.html

Fuji TV (FNN News)(R) http://www.fujitv.co.jp/jp/ NHK (R) http://www.nhk.or.jp/ Nihon TV (NNN 24) (R) http://www.news24.jp/index.html TBS (News 23) (R) http://www.tbs.co.jp/news23/ http://www.kageroh.com/cm_searcher/ TV Asahi (ANN News) (M & R) http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/news/

ECIS Internet Video http://opal.ecis.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~jems/hosokyoku/hosokyoku.html On-demand video news for Japanese language learners

Internet News Video / Podcast

Yomiuri News Video Podcast http://podcast.yomiuri.co.jp/video_news/ NHK http://www.nhk.or.jp/ STV http://www.stv.ne.jp/news/index.html HBC http://www.hbc.co.jp/news/hbc-newsi.html

Photo

TJF Photo Data Bank (国際文化フォーラム) http://databank.tjf.or.jp/intro.html More than 2000 photos of students in Japan On Demand Japanese Photo Archives  http://www.aglance.org/ondemand/ You can request a photo on Japan which you could never find CRDC Multimedia Resource (Gifu University)http://www.crdc.gifu-u.ac.jp/mmdb/index.html Elementary School Pictures in Japan http://www.geocities.com/pto_gwn/jpn_ele/ Photos and explanations about life of Japanese elementary school kids Sight-Seeing Japan http://www.sight-seeing-japan.com/ Database of photo images of touristic places in Japan The Virtual Picture Album (CARLA, University of Minnesota) http://www.carla.umn.edu/LCTL/VPA/japanese/org_grid1.html Jupitermedia http://www.jupiterimages.com/default.aspx

Pop Culture

QTVR

Restaurant

Japanese Retaurant Info.Com http://www.japaneserestaurantinfo.com/index.html Information on Japanese food in general and in Los Angeles area. Japanese restaurant guide Menu Index Oriental supermarket guide with photo images Restaurant menu with photo image

居酒屋 北の家族 http://www.kitanokazoku.co.jp/ つぼ八 ファーストフード Lotteria http://www.lotteria.co.jp/ MacDonald's http://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/ Mos Burger http://www.mos.co.jp/index.html? Subway http://www.subway.co.jp/ KFC http://www.kfc.co.jp/ Mister Donut http://www.misterdonut.jp/ ピザ Pizza Hut http://www.pizzahut.jp/ Pizza-La http://www.pizza-la.co.jp/ ファミレス すかいらーく・バーミヤン・ガスト http://www.skylark.co.jp/ Big Boy http://www.bigboyjapan.co.jp/ Dennys http://www.dennys.co.jp/dj/index2.htm Jonathan's http://www.jonathan.co.jp/home/index.asp Royal Host http://www.royal.co.jp/royalhost/index.html Sizzler http://www.sizzler.jp/ T.G.I. Friday's http://www.tgifridays.co.jp/

Search

Kids Goo http://kids.goo.ne.jp/ You can show website with ruby Google http://www.google.com/ Four NETS for Better Searching http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm Tips for using Google Yahoo Japan http://www.yahoo.co.jp Excite Japan http://www.excite.co.jp Lycos Japan http://www.lycos.co.jp

Sight Seeing

JNTO (Japan National Tourist Organization) http://www.jnto.go.jp/ Information on travels in Japan Consulting service for school trip to Japan You can get posters and infomation booklets for free at your nearest office. 京都府観光情報 http://www.kyoto-kankou.or.jp/ 全国旅Sodan http://www.nihon-kankou.or.jp/index.html Japan-Guide.Com http://www.japan-guide.com/ All about Tokyo http://www.tcvb.or.jp/en/index_en.htm Kyoto Visitors' Guide http://www.kyotoguide.com/

Sight Seeing (Hotel)

旅の窓口 http://www.mytrip.net/ Room reservation ペット宿ドットコム http://www.petyado.com/

Sight Seeing (Theme Parks)

Eiga Mura http://www.eigamura30.com/index.shtml Tokyo Disneyland http://www.tokyodisneyresort.co.jp/index_e.html Edo Wonderland http://www.edowonderland.net/home.html Ghibli Museum http://www.ghibli-museum.jp/ Sanrio Puroland http://www.puroland.co.jp/spl/welcome.html Yokohama Curry Museum http://www.currymuseum.com/

Sight Seeing (Transportation)

大阪市交通局 http://www.kotsu.city.osaka.jp/

Smiley Mark and Emorticons

顔文字ハウス http://kotono.oheya.to/ ヶｲの顔文字王国 http://www.kaomoji.com/kao/ List of emorticons in Japanese and downloadable emorticon dictionaries 顔文字ネット http://www.kaomoji.net/ Facemark Party 顔文字パーティー http://www.facemark.jp/

Songs

Ano Uta Kono Uta http://www.interq.or.jp/japan/k3j/ Database of Japanese songs with words and MIDI melody Douyou Syouka No Sekai http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~pst/douyou-syouka/ Database of Japanese old songs with words and MIDI melody Uta Map http://www.utamap.com/ Database of J-POP songs' words.

WebCam

The Window of Japan http://www.sekainomado.com/

Writing

Naoko no Daihitsu http://web.teglet.co.jp/naoko2/index.php Database of letter templates.

Others

Nipponia http://web-jpn.org/nipponia/index.html Great article on all aspects of Japanese culture for student