Resources at Yamada

• Japanese Fonts
• Search YLC Catalog

Language

• Center for Applied Japanese Language Studies - Japanese Language teaching information pertaining to the PASS (Proficiency-based Admissions Standard System) legislation being phased in in the state of Oregon.
• Kanji Dictionary Publishing Society
• Japanese language Learning and productivity tools.
• Kanji Writing Tour - A database that has multiple ways to search for Kanji.
• Let's write KANJI - A good quick reference to some often used Kanji, as well as five animated Kanji.
• Sushi Vocabulary - This is a glossary of Japanese sushi terms to help you figure out just what you're ordering in a sushi bar.
• Classical Japanese Network - This site contains poems written in classical Japanese, and then translated into Romaji and English.
• Jim Breen's WWW Japanese Dictionary - This is a useful site with a compilation of different types of dictionaries.
• Easy Japanese - A very amusing site to learn some simple Japanese phrases.
• Joyo Kanji - Understanding Written Japanese - . . . teaching Kana and the Japanese Ministry of Education's Jôyô Kanji since 1996. This is an excellent site for finding resources for written Japanese.
• Irasshai - Welcome to Japanese! - A Japanese language and culture distance learning course.
• YourDictionary.com: Japanese - A very good list of the major online Japanese dictionaries.
• Japanese language learning tools on Web - This contains a very large link section to a variety of websites that have to do with the Japanese language

Culture

• Greeting cards with ancient Japanese Hyakunin Isshun court poetry - free
• Collection of tips on how to behave in Japan - links to other sites
• University of Tokushima - in Japanese and English
• The Japan FAQ - useful advice if you're headed abroad. By Robert Murphy.
• Timeline of Japanese History - A very concise timeline of the Japanese eras.
• The Library of Congress - Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Japan: Being the Library of Congress, this is an *excellent* and very comprehensive resource for almost any information you would want to know about Japan.
• Sushi Vocabulary - This is a glossary of Japanese sushi terms to help you figure out just what you're ordering in a sushi bar.
• Classical Japanese Network - This site contains poems written in classical Japanese, and then translated into Romaji and English.
• The National Institute for Japanese Language - An institute founded to provide the organization and facilities for scientific research on the Japanese language.
• Joseph Wu's Origami Page - This site has many directions and galleries of origami.

Computers

• Using Japanese language on your computer - A site for setting up Japanese word processing on both Windows and Macintosh computers.

last updated 18 Aug 06