Japanese Links
Library shelfmark: JA
Oxford University Japan Society on Facebook
The library's Delicious page offers you also a section of multimedia language links and the Netvibes page offers you the latest news. There are also extended electronic resources available at Oxford.
External links
Below are the links to the external websites. Language Centre takes no responsibility for the content of these websites.
Notes on Japanese characters / Useful Links / Language Resources / Media / Miscellaneous
Notes on Japanese characters
To use Japanese language servers in Windows, Japanese Windows is required with global IME. For Macintosh, the language kits are now included on the system CD-ROM disc starting with OS 9. Alternatively NJStar could be used.
Also available is shodouka, by Ka-Ping Yee (University of Waterloo): at this site you can type a Japanese URL, and shodouka generates gif images of the Japanese characters on screen, in place of the Japanese text. This means you do not require Japanese windows or Language Kit. Caution: we have found that, on occasion, using this method may cause machines problems which require re-starting or re-booting.
Useful links
- Bodleian Japanese Library
- Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford
- Stanford Guide to Japanese Information Resources
- Jim Breen's Japanese Page
- Japanese links from Omniglot
Language Resources
- General
- Aussie educator contains several links to learning Japanese online at different levels.
- Kanji Alive is an interactive tool designed to help beginning and intermediate students learn, read, and write kanji; includes a simple dictionary of kanji etymology. The website is in English or Japanese.
- Kokokosa course material
- Nihongo Master free courses from beginners to intermediate
- Nihongo Narau/Learn Japanese Aimed at English-speaking students of Japanese with updates for more advanced users. Includes: 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th year Kanji charts, hiragana and katakana writing practice pages, vocabulary sections, grammar sections related to various lessons and periodic grammar reviews.
- Nihongo Day by Day a blog made by Minako Okamoto, a Japanese Tutor in Tokyo. There is also an English version available
- Dictionaries
- Reading
- Japanese Text initiative "A collaborative effort to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web" from the University of Virginia.
- Kindai over 30,000 e-books from the Meiji period.
- Writing
Media
- If you can't find the media you want in the language you want, try our multilingual page
- Asahi Shimbun
- Yomiuri Shimbun home page