My Favorite Places -- Japan-related Stuff

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Japan and Japanese culture:

Guides and general information sites:

• Forest Linton's Japan Web Guide is a very extensive listing of all sorts of information related to Japan.233
• NTT's Japanese Information Page is also very extensive.234
• The Japan Information Network is a sort-of 'list of lists' on Japan235
• Keiko Schneider has a good list of Japan-related links236
• Take a virutal tour of Japan-related Web sites with the Japan Ring237
• Also check out my own Cynic's Guide to Visiting Japan238
• Sigi's guide to Akihabara (Tokyo's Electric Town)299

The country:

• National Clearinghouse for US/Japan Studies239
• Exploring Japan with maps240
• The Library of Congress has a Japan Documentation Center page.241

The culture:

• Center for GlobalCommunications (GLOCOM)242
• Nippon Culture Mailing List243
• Issho Kikaku is an organization formed by Tokyo-based foreign nationals.244
• An interesting expose of Japanese pizza menus245
• Tokyo Off Time! a collection of stories by James Liu.246
• My Life in Japan by Naomi Smith (interesting)247
• A Guide to Japanese Journalism248
• This guy has also fallen prey to the lure of Japan249
• This page is in Japanese and I can't recall why I bookmarked it250

The Japanese language:

General information:

• Jim Breen's Japanese Page251
• Ryan's links to Japanese WEB resources252
• Kansai-ben253
• Yamada Japanese WWW guide254
• Denise Lee's Nihongo Page (simple but cute)255
• Japanese Signs322

Translators:

• Honyaku Home Page256
• Kanji's Japanese Home Page (a for-hire translator)257

Online study aids:

• The Japanese Tutor is very good but very graphic intensive258
• Learn Japanese over the Net at Fortran Language Systems (paid subscriptions only)259
• And learn Kanji at Joyo 96 Home Page - Public Service Joyo Kanji Dojo.260
• Japanese Writing Tutor covers the 'kana' and a few kanji.261
• Ste-chan's Kanji of the Day262
• Japanese Language Services263
• Yamada Language Center264
• Japanese-Online265

Online dictionaries:

• Japanese <-> English Dictionary Server (configured for JIS)266
• Jeffrey's Kanji Lookup (configured for JIS)267
• Japanese Language Information - Kanji Server and Dictionary268
• Kenkyuusha's J->E/E->J dictionary269

Japanese computing:

• Guide to Japanese Computing270
• Using Japanese with a PC has a list of operating systems which support Japanese.271
• Win95-E and Win95-J Mini FAQ272
• Using Win95 and Win95J on the Same Computer273
• How to run English and Japanese versions of Win95 on the same computer274
• Yamada Language Center Font Archive275
• Pacific Software Publishing are the makers of KanjiKit for Windows.276
• Jim Breen's JDIC page277
• Kanji Tutor (simple DOS shareware program)278
• Networks in Japan279

Living in Japan:

Relocating to Japan:

• Moving to Japan280

Jobs in Japan:

• Job Search Japan (bi-lingual employment services).281
• Asia-Net has listings of Japanese, Chinese and Korean employment.282

Eating in Japan:

• An interesting expose of Japanese pizza menus245
• Tokyo Food Page283
• Japan Restaurant and Shop Guides284
• Good Tokyo Restaurants (Tokyo area only)285
• Tokyo Meltdown has listings for both food and records.286

Entertainment:

• Bonsai's Jpop Pages287
• Welcome To KARAOKE.COM (commercial Karaoke CDs)288
• Kabuki for Everyone289

Products and services:

• The Japan List (source for Beppin, Urecco, etc)200
• Japan Travel Updates (source for Beppin, Urecco, etc)290

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