| Anime and Manga |
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Doraemon Channel
http://dora-world.com/
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You can send a Doraemon e-card. |
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You can read Doraemon manga at Comic Channel. |
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You can play games. |
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 | Shonen
Jump http://jump.shueisha.co.jp/
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One Piece: Click on X on the map to go to a typing game. |
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Go to for a short manga. |
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Go here for profiles |
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http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/shin chan/
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You can play Shin chan Uranai, and a room
viewer.
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You see pictures and profiles of characters. |
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Card
Captor Sakura http://www.nhk-sw.co.jp/chara/sakura/
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You can see a chart of
relationship among characters.
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Cartoon
Network (Toon Data) http://www.cartoonnetwork.co.jp/toondata/
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American cartoon data in Japanese |
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| 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 |
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 | Doko
Iku No? http://isec.u-gakugei.ac.jp/doko/
 | Picture dictionary
type of vocabulary exercises |
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 | 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. |
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 | Kanji
Jiten http://www.inv.co.jp/~yoshio/nozomu-oohara/
 | Useful informations
on kanji |
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 | Kotowaza
Jiten http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/swata/swkoto_a.html
 | List of Kotowaza
and its meaning. |
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| E-Card |
 | Ynot
e-Card http://www.ynot.co.jp/ |
 | Doraemon
Channel http://dora-world.com/
 | You can send a Doraemon e-card. |
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 | 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. |
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 | Net
Card http://www.netcard.ne.jp/index.html |
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| Exercises |
 | Interactive
Japanese (University of Alabama) http://bama.ua.edu/~karizumi/language/japanese/
 | Fun exercises
of Kanji and dictations like a game |
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 | Language
Lab http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/language.html
 | Japanese lessons
with sounds. |
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 | Learn
Japanese on the Web http://www.coscom.co.jp/j-index.html
 | Sample exercises
with sounds. |
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 | LESSON/J
(Iwate University) http://sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/sp/lesson/j/
 | Database of
dictation quizzes |
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| Fun |
 | Let's
Try Origami (Kids Web Japan) http://www.jinjapan.org/kidsweb/virtual/origami/origami.html
 | Instruction
with animation in English |
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 | Origami
Tanteidan http://www.origami.gr.jp/Model/index.html
 | Fortune
telling and origami instructions with images in Japanese |
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| Games |
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| Grammar |
 | Japan
Culture Study Group http://ux01.so-net.ne.jp/~o1779uma/index.html
 | Grammar explanations
and how to introduce grammars |
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 | Ken
Butler's http://www.twics.com/~kenbutle/tendifferences.html
 | Ten Differences
Between Japanese and English That Make Japanese an Easy LanguageTo
Learn |
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 | The
Japanese Language Properties (Prof. Miyagawa, MIT) http://web.mit.edu/jpnet/articles/JapaneseLanguage.html
 | Basic knowledge
of Japanese langauge |
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| Literature/Reading |
 | Aozora
Bunko http://www.aozora.gr.jp/
 | E-library of
books whose copyright has been expired. Good source of advanced
reading materials. |
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 | Genji
Daigaku http://www.genji-daigaku.com/
 | All about "Tale
of Genji". |
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 | 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. |
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 | Mukashibanashi
http://www.dl.ulis.ac.jp/oldtales/jp-index.html
 | Project of
making Mukashibanashi in mulit-language versions. |
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 | Nandemo
Best 10 http://osaka.yomiuri.co.jp/catalog/best/best.htm
 | Reports of
survey results made by a newspaper company. |
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 | Asunaro
http://hinoki.ryu.titech.ac.jp/
 | Reading lessons
for technical Japanese learners. |
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 | Professor
Ujie's HP http://home.wlu.edu/~ujiek/1.jpn.html
 | Collections
of reading materials. |
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 | Reading
Tutor http://language.tiu.ac.jp/
 | Database of
reading materials with a dictionary tool. |
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| 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/
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 | CM
Japan (M or Q) http://www.cmjapan.com/index.html
 | Links of sites
where you can watch Japanese CMs. |
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 | 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 |
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 | 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/ |
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| Photo |
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| Pop
Culture |
 | Subculture
Linguistics http://www.ifnet.or.jp/~akizuki/sublingsiron/sublingsiron.html
 | Essays on contemporary
Japanese language behaviors |
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| Sight
Seeing |
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| Songs |
 | Ano
Uta Kono Uta http://www.interq.or.jp/japan/k3j/
 | Database of
Japanese songs with words and MIDI melody |
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 | Douyou
Syouka No Sekai http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~pst/douyou-syouka/
 | Database of
Japanese old songs with words and MIDI melody |
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 | Uta
Map http://www.utamap.com/
 | Database of
J-POP songs' words. |
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| WebQuest |
 | The
WebQuest Page (Prof. Bernie Dodge, SDSU) http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html
 | Founder's official
website |
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 | WebQuest
Generator http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/web_quest/ |
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