adamrice / #japanese

http://www.jpntranslations.com/hentaigana.html

Does what it says on the tin

http://moji.tekkai.com/

Japanese character reference, shows numerous typographic variants for every character.

http://www.jcdic.com/chinese_convert/index.php

Converts between Chinese and Japanese characters, gives pinyin

http://www.ipdl.inpit.go.jp/homepg.ipdl

Japanese patents online

http://fontnavi.jp/index.aspx

multi-vendor navigator for Japanese typefaces

http://mclcorp.s90.xrea.com/

http://www.letter110.net/

Repository of sample correspondences in Japanese

http://www.amelia.ne.jp/userTop.do

Japanese translation marketplace

http://www-mit.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-jlreq-20081015/

An extensive overview of Japanese page layout. A few goofs, but useful.

http://beta.typd.in/index.html

Lets you type in Japanese on a computer with no IME installed (but you do need Japanese fonts). Pretty freaking amazing.

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/11/top-60-japanese-buzzwords-of-2007/

http://limechat.net/inputswitcher/index_ja.html

Restores pre-Leopard per-application input-method switching

http://www.jai2.com/dlp.htm

One of the giants of Japanese translation. I met him briefly in 1992.

http://www.baxleystamps.com/litho/hasegawa.shtml

Complete scans of illustrated 19th-century editions

http://www.conbinibento.com/media/sushi.avi

Slow-burn humor. Funny

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BC%A2%E5%AD%97%E7%95%A5%E8%AA%9E%E4%B8%80%E8%A6%A7

This looks incredibly useful

http://www.honco.net/japanese/05/page1.html

I'm amazed they were making these until 1999

http://www.hanzismatter.com/

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