Language Links

Japanese

Japanese Language Links

All the Japanese Slang You Can Stand Too! - A slang resource for Japanese language enthusiasts interested in learning colloquial speech terminology.
Classical Japanese Language and Literature - This site teaches classical Japanese through poems and extracts from literary classics. Grammatical points are explained.
Discovery Information's Kanji Lessons - Free online kanji lessons and links to Japanese-related sites.
Gender Disctinction in Japanese - Essay on "Manifestations of Gender Distinction in the Japanese Language"
Japanese wa, mo, ga, wo, na, no - Scholarly study of the syntax of the six most common post-nominal particles in Japanese, by Frederik Kortlandt.
The Kanji Master Program - Site devoted to the study of kanji in the light of their history and place within Chinese and Japanese civilization.
Kanji.com - Writings on the kanji character system.
The Origins of Kanji in Japan - The history of kanji and how it came to be used in Japanese writing.
Osaka Shoin Women's College - The Japanese Language Research Center.

Japanese Dictionary and Translation Links

Analytica Japan: Glossary of Japanese Terms - Lexicon with 1,750 Japanese financial expressions and acronyms.
Basic Terms of Shinto - Kokugakuin University’s hyperlinked version of a 1958 illustrated Japanese-English dictionary.
Bidirectional English-Japanese Dictionary - Pacific Software Publishing’s EDICT server with kana or kanji Japanese to English and English to Japanese. (SJIS)
CJKV-English Dictionary - Charles Muller’s database of CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese) characters and compounds related to East Asian cultural, political, and intellectual history. (UTF-8)
The Counting Dictionary - Guide to Japanese counters or measure words, indexed by kanji, word, and semantic categories. (GIF)
Digital Dictionary of Buddhism - Charles Muller's dictionary of terms and names found in Buddhist canonical sources, updated on user contributions. (UTF-8)
English Japanese Online Dictionary - A free beginner's romanized English-Japanese dictionary with over 10,000 words.
FOKS (Forgiving Online Kanji Search) - Slaven Bilac’s EDICT server with intelligent search that allows dictionary lookup even with misspellings or incorrect kanji readings. (EUC)
Glossary of Japanese Theatre Terms - Beta version of theatrical glossary. (UTF-8)
Glossary of Sushi-Related terms - Japanese-English wordlist of food and cooking vocabulary.
Heartful English-Japanese Dictionary - Toyohashi University of Technology’s EDICT server with English to Japanese only. (EUC)
JAANUS (Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System) - Glossary compiled by Mary Neighbour Parent, with alphabetical index and keyword search. (SJIS)
Japanese Dictionary - EDICT and KANJIDIC server from Online-dictionary.biz with JavaScript romanized-kana Japanese to English and English to Japanese. (UTF-8)
A Japanese Dictionary for the Japanese Text Initiative - University of Virginia's portal for Jim Breen's Japanese-English Dictionary. (EUC)
Japanese Kanji Dictionary - EDICT and KANJIDIC server with English or Japanese search and audio files. (UTF-8)
Japanese Online Dictionary - Richard Moore's versatile EDICT and KANJIDIC server with Web, mobile, and email access; allows searching using partial or complete English, romaji, kana, or kanji, and provides definitions with kanji, furigana, kana, romaji, and grammatical information. (UTF-8 or rasterized)
JEDI (Japanese-English Dictionary Interface) - Kyoto Notre Dame University’s EDICT server with kana, kanji, or romanized Japanese to English and English to Japanese. (EUC)
Jeffrey's Japanese⇔English Dictionary Server - Jeffrey Friedl and William Maton's customizable EDICT and KANJIDIC server with kana, kanji, or romanized Japanese to English and English to Japanese, allowing fuzzy searching by word patterns. (JIS, SJIS, EUC, GIF)
jeKai Japanese-English dictionary - Tom Gally’s ongoing project to build a free, open Japanese-English dictionary with translation equivalents, illustrations, and examples. (SJIS)
Jim Breen's WWWJDIC - Monash University's interface for all EDICT Project dictionary files. Kana, kanji, or romanized Japanese to English and English to Japanese, text or URL word glossing, kanji stroke order diagrams, example sentences, plus handwritten and cell phone interfaces. (SJIS, EUC, UTF-8)
JiWORDS (Japanese info on WORDS) - The National Institute for Japanese Language’s server using Sanseido Japanese-English and English-Japanese dictionaries. (GIF)
Jonsay's English-Japanese Dictionary - Hyperlinked wordlists arranged into semantic categories. (UTF-8)
Kanji Dictionaries for Learning Japanese - The Kanji Dictionary Publishing Society’s site for NTC/Kenkyusha’s New Japanese-English Character Dictionary and The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary. (GIF)
Kanji Networks - Lawrence J. Howell's and Hikaru Morimoto's kanji dictionary, with hypothetical phonosemantic "etymologies," is searchable by character, radical, stroke count, or pronunciation. (UTF-8)
KanjiSearch - EDICT server with Japanese or English word search. (SJIS)
Kiki's Kanji Dictionary - Stephen Ryner’s KANJIDIC server with radical-indexed kanji Japanese to English, and clickable kanji hyperlinks. (SJIS)
LSD (Life Science Dictionary) Project - Online dictionary including over 39,000 English terms extracted from the MEDLINE database with definitions, Japanese translations, example sentences, and concordances. Also provides an EDICT server for English to Japanese glosses of Web pages or text, and an English spell-checker. (SJIS)
Nihongo Resources Dictionaries - EDICT and KANJIDIC server with auto-detection of English and kana, kanji, or romanized Japanese input. Allows wildcard searches. (EUC)
Online English to Japanese to English Dictionary - JavaScript EDICT server from Freedict.com with romanized Japanese to English and English to romanized Japanese. (GIF)
Online English-Japanese Dictionaries - Free Light Software’s glossaries of geography and travel, history and traditions, manga and video games, and politics and media. (GIF)
Onomatopoetic English-Japanese Dictionary - Glossary with English and Japanese indexes. (GIF)
Patent Glossary - Searchable Japanese-English glossary of terminology used by the Japan Patent Office, some sample sentences. (UTF-8)
Rikai - Todd David Rudick’s EDICT server with JavaScript mouseover dictionary tools in English, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Read text or Web pages with pop-up readings and translations. (EUC)
Spencer's Japanese-English Dictionary - EDICT and KANJIDIC server with kana, radical-indexed kanji, or romanized Japanese to English and English to Japanese. (SJIS)
Tokyoahead Kanji Dictionary - KANJIDIC server with radical-indexed kanji Japanese to English. (UTF-8, registration required.)
Translation Tools from Mizuho Securities - Glossaries covering accounting, banking, economics, finance, taxation, politics, institutions, etc. (UTF-8)
Your Name in Japanese - Converts foreign names into Japanese kana, with seven different graphic styles, using Philip A. Ronan’s dictionary file with 3,700 names. (PNG)

Do you know of a good Japanese link that should be on this page? If so, let me know about it! I will add any links that are relevant to learning Japanese. I am also open to link exchanges as long as the site pertains to the Japanese language.