Learning
AJALT, Alessandro's Home Page, Easy Japanese, English 2 Day, Free Light Japanese, Japanappy, Japanese 101 - The Foreigner, Japanese Language Learning for Mobile Phones, Japanese-Online - Free Japanese Lessons on the Int, Kana Flashcards
Resources
AJALT, Bilingual Japanese/English Computing Notes, Bilingualism and Japanology Intersection, Charles Kelly's Web-based Japanese Language S, Elementary Japanese Language Course - Nihongo Shoh, EspritLine.com, Griffith University Japanese resources, Introductory Japanese, Japanese, Japanese Language
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"
Genki
Japanese and English language webring for those interested in learning these languages.
Honyaku Mailing List
Dedicated to Japanese/English Translation (and translators)
Japanese Language Database
Large database of the Japanese Language. From lessons for beginners to advanced grammatical structures.
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.
Japanese: The Spoken Language
This three-volume textbook series and accompanying interactive CD-ROM program stresses Japanese as it is spoken today in Japan.
Kanji Clinic
A column appearing every third Friday in The Japan Times aiming at providing practical advice to non-Japanese adults striving to become literate in Japanese by learning the 1,945 general-use kanji. It is written by Mary Sisk Noguchi, associate professor at Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan.
Learning Japanese BBS
Web-based bulletin board system for learning Japanese.
Mainichi-Kanji
Introduces a new kanji on each weekday, with readings, meanings and examples. On weekends the week's kanji are reviewed. The site can be viewed on any computer, no Japanese fonts are required.
North Kyushu Creole
Long linguistic paper by John C. Maher concerning the derivation of Japanese from a creolized koiné, with its major sources from the Altaic and Austronesian language families.
Osaka Shoin Women's College
The Japanese Language Research Center.
The Kanji Master Program
Site devoted to the study of kanji in the light of their history and place within Chinese and Japanese civilization.
The Origins of Kanji in Japan
The history of kanji and how it came to be used in Japanese writing.
Understanding Written Japanese
This Kanji Study Group website teaches written Japanese language for free. Indexed kanji references, quick look-ups, and primers on kanji, hiragana and katakana.