Drill the Japanese kanji: top of the site

Asahi kanji selection of links

General encyclopedia articles

Article on Kanji on Wikipedia.

Article on Learning kanji on Wikipedia.

Browser add-ons and online tools

A wonderful tool to pratice reading and learning kanji in their context: Rikaichan.
Firefox users can install Rikaichan, an incredible add-on. Just hover the mouse on top of a word in any web page, and a popup will appear, giving the meaning, on-yomi, kun-yomi, etc.

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.

Grammar

Visualizing Japanese Grammar (Flash animations) from S. Hamano (George Washington University)

Vocabulary

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)

Kanji etymologies

Kanji Networks   Etymologies by Lawrence J. Howell and Hikaru Morimoto.(online search)

JLPT Practice

Sample questions for the new JLPT (The Japan Foundation site)

Listening comprehension, podcasts

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

Collections of bookmarks for students and teachers of Japanese

Keiko Schneider's Bookmarks
For those who study and teach Japanese and Japan.

Mary Noguchi's Kanji Clinic

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

Last update: October, 2013