Japanese at Carthage

Anime and Manga
Doraemon Channel http://dora-world.com/
You can send a Doraemon e-card.
You can read Doraemon manga at Comic Channel.
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.
Go to for a short manga.
Go here for profiles
http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/shin chan/
You can play Shin chan Uranai, and a room viewer.
You see pictures and profiles of characters.
Card Captor Sakura http://www.nhk-sw.co.jp/chara/sakura/
You can see a chart of relationship among characters.
Cartoon Network (Toon Data) http://www.cartoonnetwork.co.jp/toondata/
American cartoon data in Japanese
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
Alta Vista http://world.altavista.com/tr
Eijiroo http://www.alc.co.jp/
Excite Text Translator http://www.excite.co.jp/world/text/
Excite Web Translator http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url/
Goo http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/cgi-bin/ej-top.cgi
With zip code, phone # and map searches
Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html
Jisyo.Org http://www.jisyo.org/ddd
Rikai.Com http://www.rikai.com/perl/Home.pl
World Lingo http://www.worldlingo.com/microsoft/computer_translation.html
Doko Iku No? http://isec.u-gakugei.ac.jp/doko/
Picture dictionary type of vocabulary exercises
Hyper Kanji Kensaku http://www2.theta.co.jp/kanji/index.html#
Kanji Dictionary. You can look for kanji by JIS codes and kanji parts, as well as on/kun readings and stroke numbers.
Kanji Jiten http://www.inv.co.jp/~yoshio/nozomu-oohara/
Useful informations on kanji
 
Kotowaza Jiten http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/swata/swkoto_a.html
List of Kotowaza and its meaning.
 
E-Card
 
Ynot e-Card http://www.ynot.co.jp/
Doraemon Channel http://dora-world.com/
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
 
Exercises
 
Interactive Japanese (University of Alabama) http://bama.ua.edu/~karizumi/language/japanese/
Fun exercises of Kanji and dictations like a game
 
Language Lab http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/language.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
 
 
Fun
 
Let's Try Origami (Kids Web Japan) http://www.jinjapan.org/kidsweb/virtual/origami/origami.html
Instruction with animation in English
 
Origami Tanteidan http://www.origami.gr.jp/Model/index.html
Fortune telling and origami instructions with images in Japanese
 
 
Games
 
Ultimate Kana Challenge http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj
Kids Web Japan http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/index-j.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/
You can play games.
 
 
Grammar
 
Japan Culture Study Group http://ux01.so-net.ne.jp/~o1779uma/index.html
Grammar explanations and how to introduce grammars
 
Ken Butler's http://www.twics.com/~kenbutle/tendifferences.html
Ten Differences Between Japanese and English That Make Japanese an Easy LanguageTo Learn
 
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.
 
Mukashibanashi http://www.dl.ulis.ac.jp/oldtales/jp-index.html
Project of making Mukashibanashi in mulit-language versions.
 
Nandemo Best 10 http://osaka.yomiuri.co.jp/catalog/best/best.htm
Reports of survey results made by a newspaper company.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
Movie (M=Media Player, Q=Quick Time Player, R=Real Player)
 
Biglobe Search Result - (M, Q, or R) http://dir.biglobe.ne.jp/dir/182180/182464/189118/184543/185547/
JAL TV (M and R)
Toshiba CM Library (M)
Otsuka Adview (M and R)
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/park/tv_cm/
FUJIFILM TV-CM Index (Q or R)
CM Information (Q)
CM-fan..net (M or R)
 
 
Kirin Beverage CM Information (M an R)
Xbox Moviing Images (M)
Kincho (M and Q)
Lion (Q) w/scripts
http://www.rclub2.rohto.co.jp/club/cflib/ (M or R)
http://www.momoya.co.jp/newcm.html%20 (Q)
World (Q and R) Series like a drama
Recaldent (M and Q)
Shiseido (Q)
NEC Channel VL (M)
http://www.hikkoshi-sakai.co.jp/cm/cm_subete.html (M)
 
CM Japan (M or Q) http://www.cmjapan.com/index.html
Links of sites where you can watch Japanese CMs.
 
Kagome Commercial Gallery (R) http://www.kagome.co.jp/tv-cm/
Oracle US TV http://www.oracle.co..jp/apps/cm/
US TV commercials on e-business in Japanese
 
 
 
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.nnn24.com/
TBS (News 23) (R) http://www.tbs.co.jp/news23/
TBS (News i) (M & R) http://news.tbs.co.jp/
TV Asahi (ANN News) (M & R) http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/news/
 
Photo
 
AV Resource Database (Purdue University) http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/jphotos/
Royalty-free Photo Gallery for Japanese Language Instruction (Purdue University) http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FreePhoto/default.html
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
 
LangPix http://www.langpix.com/
Database of photo images
 
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://carla.acad.umn.edu/VPA/VPA.html
 
Pop Culture
 
Subculture Linguistics http://www.ifnet.or.jp/~akizuki/sublingsiron/sublingsiron.html
Essays on contemporary Japanese language behaviors
 
 
Sight Seeing
 
Japan-Guide.Com http://www.japan-guide.com/
 
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.
 
 
WebQuest
 
The WebQuest Page (Prof. Bernie Dodge, SDSU) http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html
Founder's official website
 
WebQuest Generator http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/web_quest/
 
 
A Voyage to Japan http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests/JAPAN%20WEBQUEST/Index.html
Becoming Japanese http://edtech.suhsd.k12.ca.us/inprogress/gjh/becomingjap/bejap#Resources
Discover Japan WebQuest http://www.uwosh.edu/departments/for_lang/Japanese/WebQuest/discover/DiscoverJapan.html
Journey to Japan http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jdorris/webquest.htm
My Two Homes http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/cornelia/classes/esl/webquest/japan/Japan.htm
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~edtech/webquest/sadako.htm
Think Sheets for Japan Webquest http://www.education.umd.edu/Depts/EDCI/edci385/webquests3/Webquest5/thinksheet.html
Travel Japan http://sd71.bc.ca/Sd71/Edulinks/countries/japan/
Welcome to Japan http://www.fcae.nova.edu/~melisas/japan/webquest.htm