Websites for learning Japanese
Japanese Tutors
From Wyzant Face-to-face lessons in Japanese. Search in all US states and major cities.
The Japanese Writing System
By Cjvlang
The Japanese Writing System
By Omniglot
On Line Encyclopedia in Japanese
From Wikipedia.
Fun English/Japanese picture dictionary
from Enchantedlearning.com Uses Romaji, or Japanese written with the English alphabet.
Great site for learning Japanese
From languagelearninglibrary.org
Learn Japanese online
BBC
Introductory Japanese Tutorial
From About.com, with sound
Japanese Lessons Online
From NHK
Japanese Spoken Vocabulary: Hear the most common words in Japanese
at Languageguide.org Mouse over and hear the word spoken. This is fun, and is good for learning and testing yourself.
Japanese text to speech
at Text-to-speech.imtranslator.net.org Type in Japanese text. It reads it aloud in Japanese .
Japanese Text to Speech
at Imtranslator.net
HTML Character Codes for Japanese
From Penn State University
Japanese "first" and "last" names
By Japan-guide.com Family names and given names. Which do you use? Which goes first? Answers here.