Bill's Japan Page

My Japanese Diary

This my diary (in English) of things that I find interesting in Japan.

Snow! (2002-01-01)
TV (2002-02-01)
Onsen: Japanese hot springs (2002-3-01)
Finding a job (2002-03-01)
Nihonshiki (2002-04-11)
Hooligans (2002-06-04)
Summer (2002-07-01)
Working (2002-09-01)

New Year (2003-01-15)
Easter (2003-04-20)
Check Up (2003-07-04)
BBQ (2003-08-15)
Halloween (2003-10-31 of course)

Strange things in Japan (2004)

The President's Prize (2005-04-13)

Go Carts (in Japan!) (2006-05-03)

Biggest Sundae Ever (2006-10-12)

Austin Powers Halloween (2006-10-31)

Snow Maze (2007-02)
Swan River (2007-03)

My Pictures of Japan

Here are some pictures I took of where I live.

Sapporo daily life and other interesting things

Sapporo's Festivals

Japan English (see also Engrish.com)

Vacation spots

Japanese people eating tacos

Sakura is Otoha!

Thoughts on Japan

Top Ten things you wouldn't hear back home

Top Things I Know For Sure

Cool Japanese Websites

Japan from the driver's seat - Westerner who became a truck driver in Japan

The Quirky Japan Homepage - the side of Japan not in the tourist brochures

When You're Big In Japan - One guy's adventures spending 3 years here

Engrish - Japanese Engrish, I mean English

Wacky Japanese T-Shirts - I want a Japanese Girlfriend

All Look Same - Can you tell the difference between Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese?

Origami Boulder - the perfect gift

Webzine Gate39

JAPANESE CULTURE--A PRIMER

Chanpon - multi-cultural Japan Online

Guides to Japan

Sapporo Gaijin - good guide of Sapporo and surounding country, for both visitors and residents (english)

Hometown Regional Guide - guide to different areas of Japan

Kanji learning sites

Learn kanji/japanese here and here

Japanese Software

rikaichan - japanese word lookup engine for Firefox and Thunderbird

jBrowse - displays meaning of each Japanese word on a web page interactively, or adds ruby. Best web page connected dictionary I've seen. And it's FREE.

Altavista translator - There's really no good sentence level translation softwaare out there, but if you can't speak any Japanese at all you could try this link.

XYZZY - Emacs like Japanese editor

ForeignDesk - free translation memory (useful for translating from Engglish to Japanese)

Japanese Dictionaries

Asahi

Jim Breen's WWJDIC

Arcnet Dictionary Online Dictionary

GOO

Japan Salsa Web Sites

Salsa Latina

Salsa Hotline Japan

SALSA JAPAN

Sapporo related: SALSA VIVA, El Mango, Salsa Lover AIKAWASHOTEN

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Last updated: 11/17/2006