Links

Language study

• Japan Foundation L.A. useful links for students and teachers
• Japanese Language Proficiency Test
• Rikai.com (Japanese news text reading assistant)

• Tadoku (books at all levels for language study and enjoyment)

• Hirogaru (topics-based intermediate language study site)

• hiragana megane (this site can add hiragana readings to the kanji on any Japanese website)

Dictionaries

• jisho.org
• Goo jisho
• Kotobank (dictionary aggregator, includes specialized dictionaries)

Encyclopedias

• Wikipedia in Japanese

Resources — Academic

• Swarthmore College Library Asian Studies Portal

Resources — General Interest

• Japan Video Topics
• Matcha (short articles about Japanese travel and culture in easy Japanese)

• Shousetsu-ka ni narou (online novels)

• Animelon (anime with English subtitles)

• Tofugu (articles on Japan and Japanese language, and links and reviews of Japanese language learning resources)

Job related

• Career Forum (Job info for Japanese-English bilinguals, sponsors job fairs in Boston, NY, L.A., and Tokyo)
• JET Program (Assistant Language Teacher and Coordinator for International Relations positions in Japan)

News

• NHK News Web Easy やさしい日本語で書いたニュース
• Asahi (English)
• Asahi (Japanese)
• Japan Times (English)
• NHK news (in Japanese, includes video)
• TBS news (in Japanese, includes video)
• ANN news (in Japanese, includes video)
• Metropolis (Online Entertainment Magazine and Tokyo Classifieds, in English)
• The Rising Wasabi (satirical news site)