Jim Breen’s WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server
Online kanji dictionary with search capability.
Teach Yourself Japanese
Good online basic course.
Japanese-Online.com
Serialized lessons based on experience of an expatriate family newly
transferred to Tokyo.
webjapanese.com
Interactive kanji guide, blogs, games, and a really nice photo dictionary.
Yamada Language Center
Japanese WWW Guide
Link list with language and dictionary sites, resources for Japanese fonts, etc.
Yourdictionary.com
General dictionary site with a list of online dictionaries.
sci.lang.japan
Usenet discussion of spoken and written Japanese.
Kei-chan’s Doki-Doki
J-Town
The Japanese they don’t teach in school! Kei-chan has 4 pages of
ways not to sound like a textbook. Be romantic, casual, flippant or just plain rude.
Nihon no Kotowaza
A comprehensive guide to Japanese proverbs. See each saying in both kanji and
romaji, hear it spoken, and learn both the meaning and a literal translation.
Japanese Dictionaries and Language Books
Haig, John H. The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary. Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1997. ISBN 0-8048-2036-8
The Kodansha Japanese-English Dictionary. Tokyo, Kodansha.
Satow, Ernest Mason and Ishibashi Masakata. Rev. by E. M. Hobart-Hampden and Harold G. Parlett. An English-Japanese Dictionary of the Spoken Language. P. D. and Ione Perkins, 1942.
The Oxford-Duden Pictorial Japanese and English Dictionary. Oxford University Press, 1983. ISBN 0-19-860119-0
Hadamitzky, Wolfgang and Mark Spahn. Kanji & Kana. Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1981.
Clarke, H. D. B. and Motoko Hamamura. Colloquial Japanese. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. ISBN 0-7100-0595-4
Dykstra, Andrew. The Kanji ABC. William Kaufmann, Inc., 1977.
Young, John and Kimiko Nakajima-Okano. Learn Japanese. University of Hawaii Press, 1984.
Kasschau, Anne and Susumu Eguchi. Using Japanese Slang.Yenbooks, 1995. ISBN 4-900737-36-4
Constantine, Peter. Japanese Slang Uncensored. Yenbooks, 1994. ISBN 4-9007-3703-8
Sasaki, Mizue. The Complete Japanese Expression Guide. Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1993. ISBN 0-8048-1689-1
Garrison, Jeff et al. Kodansha’s Dictionary of Basic Japanese Idioms.Kodansha International, 2002. ISBN 4-7700-2797-4