Drill the Japanese kanji: top of the site

Links

Collections of bookmarks for students and teachers of Japanese

Keiko Schneider's Bookmarks
For those who study and teach Japanese and Japan. A very active site, regularly updated.

Mary Noguchi's Kanji Clinic

Jim Breen's Japanese page Monash University, Australia.
A extensive set of bookmarks concerning Japan and teaching Japanese.

Resources and Tools

Rikai.com
A wonderful tool to pratice reading and learning kanji in their context.
Connect to this site, paste the URL of a web page or any text in Japanese in the provided text field, click "send" and a few seconds later you will get your text back. You will then be able to display the pronunciation and the meaning of all words as you move the cursor over them.

Online dictionary
(James Breen's wwwJdic)
You can type in hiragana, kanji, or romanized japanese (or English) words, search for their definition, and then find examples, pronunciation, etc.
Excellent tool.

Newspaper vocabulary   www.manythings.org/japanese/news
Flash Quizzes & Flashcards using words from Japanese newspapers

Quizzes on Commonly-used Japanese Words  (by Charles Kelly, manythings.org)

The Kanji FAQ  and  

Listening comprehension ECIS, Nagoya University by Richard Harrison
Videos with transcriptions and quizzes.

Portals

The Japan-Guide.com

Teaching English in Japan

The Japan Zone

Miscellaneaous

A collection of smileys or emoticons, most of them typically Japanese. m ( _ _ ) m (With the necessary explanations)