Japanese Help Pages!

Here are some links that may {or may not} help you with learing Japanese and about Japan! Be aware that the pages may change their content or delete pages without warning. I try to keep this page up to date.

Homework Help from About.com

A Anime and Manga School

According to Yale, Common Terms in Anime

Dictionaries of all kinds

Miscellaneous music articles translated by random people

Resources galore!

Japanese Road Signs

Japanese Traditional Instruments

Gaijin in Japan

Miscellaneous Japan Facts You may or may not know these!

counting dictionary

Internet Resources on Japan - Great!

Japan Stuff you may not know if you are planning to travel...

Japanese Mythology

Japanese Happy Meal Toys

Conjugation Chart

Basic Japanese Words

Goldilocks and the Three Spiders And we usually think of the three bears!

Basic Japanese Words that your friends in karate may know

Teach Yourself Japanese

Kimi ga yo {Japanese National Anthem}

Japanese proverbs

Yuki Onna {Snow Woman} by Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) from Kwaidan (1904)

Ten Differences Between Japanese and English That Make Japanese an Easy Language To Learn

Japanese Poems - Send poems to your friends!

On Demand Japanese Photo Archives - Need Japanese pictures? Don't understand a visual aspect of culture? Check out this place! (On-demand service is now out of service.)

How do CJV normally handle foreign names? (with examples from Harry Potter) - Even if you hate Harry Potter, you can still learn a lot from this site!

GALVIN'S JAPAN FILES - Don't be put off by the URL...funny site and educational too!

The Way We Are - Useful photo essays of high school students in Japan

Japanese who have won the Nobel Prize

Japanese Words For the Average Web Surfer {Who either knows how to speak Japanese already, a lot or a little, and comes across a word that they don't know; Also, words in Pocket Monsters}

Japanese computer smileys (AKA Alternative Smileys) and their meanings

Japan SAQ (Seldom Asked Questions)

List of Japanese People (Wikipedia, be forewarned)

Various stuff in Japanese animation and comics

Common Misconceptions Regarding Anime and Manga

Japanese Slang