Jim Breen's Japanese Page - Mini-FAQ Collection

Jim's Mini-FAQ Collection

These are not true FAQs; more collections of possibly useful things.

My kanji information page which has collections of kanji-related information. (Some were previously linked from this page.)
My brief overview of Japanese writing. View it here if you have a Japanese-capable browser.
a very brief overview of Japanese numbers.
an overview of mathematical operations in Japanese, especially how you say them out loud.
a short article about the old-style kana usage in Japanese.
a list of country names in kanji and kana.
hand-held dictionaries and the like.
JIS, Shift-JIS, EUC, etc. coding. Be sure to read Ken Lunde's japan.inf and cjk.inf files. Better still, buy his new O'Reilly book. (And to avoid bugs in IE6, here they are with ".txt" suffixes: japan.txt, cjk.txt.
some words on how to use the EDICT file under various software platforms.
some information on installing TTFs for Japanese use in Redhat Linux 7.1 and 7.2.
some notes on making Japanese input work with Tcl/Tk under Linux.
some notes on making Japanese input work with Mozilla under Linux.
some advice on a Japanese wordprocessor for Linux.
the strange tale of the Hotchkiss.
a list of transitive and instransitive Japanese verb pairs.
the text of the book "The Japan That Can Say No" and some articles written in response.