Japanese Bookmarks

Here are a bunch of sites in, or related to, Japan. Note that some of them are in Japanese.

• J-List, a source for Japanese pop culture items. Most of them are fairly cheap (in price; I don't know about quality, having never bought anything there). It's run by Peter Payne, who has a number of links for teaching in Japan, as well as some humor, etc.  As mentioned elsewhere, Peter is also the one who translated the first two Orange Road novels (One / Two.
• Some random Literature pages. I like them, because there are a number of languages represented.
• Shodouka launchpad (an interesting means of viewing Japanese web pages for use by people with browsers that fail to grok Japanese)
• AMPlus header proposal (very out of date)
• weekly menu.html (some news briefs and such.  Much of this site is also out of date, but not all of it.)
• Bandai Corporation (Japanese/ English)
• Kenkyuusha (online Japanese/English dictionary; in Japanese)
• Japan Times
• Ohayo-Sensei, a newsletter of teaching jobs in Japan
• Manga
• Go, the fascinatingly simple game frequently equated with Chess.  The similarity ends with the fact that both require deep thinking, however.  Game play between the two has no likeness at all.
• Kikimimi, a site tracking movies in Japan.
• David Notkin's and Cathy Tuttle's "Japan Stories"
• Internet Guide to Japan Information Resources (Experimental)
• Forest Linton's Japan Web Guide
• Japan Information Network
• UnionWay, who make Japanese language sets (fonts and character input) for Windows computers.
• Japanese Culture Page

A page for sites related to learning the Japanese language.

And I suppose I should point out this frightfully amusing fad that just hit Japan around the beginning of last year. It's called a Tamagocchi, and it's a virtual pet. There is even a virtual grave for Tamagocchi's here. Chotto hen desu ne?

• Anime Sites
• Back up one level
• Japanese version

This page created and maintained by David Clemmer. Last modified on Nov 2, 1998.