Glossary and FAQ
Guide to Japanese
Future series
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Contact me
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An Otaku's guide to the Japanese Language and Culture
[This section would have been impossible without the kind help of Amritas-sensei.]
The Yale Anime Society's "100 Most Important Words in Anime"
Other resources (elsewhere)
Online-Dictionary English->Japanese and Japanese->English
Babelfish auto-translator (does a crummy job, but it's worth what you pay for it)
Animelab Japanese/English dictionary (has a "fuzzy" search option, which can be quite helpful)
Kana and Romanization – An extensive resource on pronunciation
Japanese blood type superstitions
Things Japanese you may wonder about (includes a good section about Japanese onomatopoeia)
Dan Kanemitsu home page (He's responsible for translating a lot of famous series, such as Martian Successor Nadesico. His page has a lot of notes about general problems, and specific problems, he has with translations. Note particularly the 'Otaku Translator's Reference Dictionary'.)
WordIQ articles on Japanese Language, Japanese Grammar, Kanji
Jim Breen's Japanese Page (a bazillion useful links)
Hanzi Smatter (a web log about misbegotten Chinese & Japanese tattoos)
Culture Guide, by Matt Griffiths talks about a lot of Japanese cultural peculiarities which often show up in anime.
Hanami -- Cherry Blossom season in Japan