Useful Sites
- Rikai -- add-on for FirefoxAdd to your browser so that your mouse turns into a Japanese dictionary as you move it over words you don't know.
- ちょっと便利長Links to lots and lots of useful websites for looking up people, places, and information.
- GooGoo is a Japanese search engine. If you are browsing and looking for topics and websites of interest, this is a good place to check out.
- Yahoo! JapanSearch engine, news, topics, and video links.
- デジタル版日本出版百年表Fabulous online chronology that lists major events in publishing history, titles, and what was happening in the world at the same time.
- Google (Japanese)Check the many tools you can use: search blogs, images, articles, books, translate, and more.
Dictionaries
- WeblioWeblio includes over a hundred different dictionaries. It includes words, events, people, dates.
- Kotobank99 dictionaries, with a strong emphasis on current events.
- Japanese ncikuThis is a good online dictionary for language learners.
Place Names
- Japan Post 日本郵便局Look up the readings for Japanese place names.
- Mapple ちず丸Locate addresses on maps
