Useful Japan - Related Links

役に立つ 日本 関係  リンク集

These pages are designed to provide information on Japan and the Japanese language, which should be particularly useful to intermediate and advanced learners/users of the langauge (students, scholars, translators, etc.)
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Mega Links

Jim Breen's Japanese Page  Former head of the Department of Digital Systems at Australia's Monash University, Professor Breen, one of the foremost authorities on computerized Japanese learning in the Western world and administrator of Monash's nihongo ftp archive, is--fortunately for us --now freer to devote his time to teaching & research, as well as keeping this highly useful site up to date. (in English)

Japanorama   An excellent source of Japan-related products and information (in English)

IS Japan Information   Inter Support Co., a Kansai-based relocation service, provides practical and cultural information and news on Kansai and Japan (in English). Click on the Japan Information page.

The JAPAN INFORMATION NETWORK, a mega website of the Japan Center for International Communications (JCIC), is "provided with the cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan." It provides a wealth of information on Japan (largely in English, with some Japanese).

【まこ】's Bookmarks (ミラーサーバー) Mako's Bookmarks (mirror server) - A massive collection (classified) of Japan-related sites (in Japanese)

Japan-Related Links in English by Aladdinsane. - References to culture, education, history, Japanese language study, legal, living, media, politics, travel, and miscellaneous.

CONVENIENT LINKS FOR OVERSEAS JAPANESE  海外特にアメリカ在住便利リンク集 (Links for Japanese people who live in the U.S. and other countries) (in Japanese) -- Japan site ＊ U.S. mirror site

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Search Engines

Major Search Engines:

   goo |  Infoseek Japan |  Yahoo! JAPAN |  Hole-in-One |  ODIN |  Mondou


Others:

* Nikkei Net's MARKET Japan * This service provides prices for shares listed on the stock exchanges in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Niigata, and Sapporo, or shares registered on the over-the-counter market. To obtain quotes, enter either the company name or 4-digit company code into the search box. Quotes include the latest figures for following six items: open, high, low, close, change from the previous close, and trading volume. Also available are daily and weekly charts for each company. This is also a good place to find the brief name and/or the 4-digit Securities Identification Code (証券コード）number of a Japanese company(in English).

* いま手に入る本の最新情報 * Search Engine for Japanese Books -- 1997年6月までに発行され現在日本で入手可能な約53万冊の書籍を検索し必要な情報を引き出す。 A database containing information on about 530,000 titles now available in Japan (published prior to June 1997) (in Japanese)

* NACSIS Catalog Database Retrieval Service -- NACSIS Webcat ＊ 総合目録データベースWWW検索サービス -- NACSIS webcat is the system for searching the catalog databases of books and periodicals held in the university libraries in Japan. The databases are created by making use of the shared cataloging system (NACSIS-CAT) provided by the National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS) of Monbusho. -- 文部省・学術情報センターの全国大学図書館所蔵 図書・雑誌検索サービス (in English and Japanese)

* Nikkei Business * 用語・略語検索 -- Keyword search of 414 terms and 293 acronyms.

* IP/Domain Search * ＩＰ・ドメイン　ＳＥＡＲＣＨ -- Identify the name of an organization in Japan by entering its IP address or domain name (in Japanese) * ＩＰアドレスまたはドメイン名から企業名や団体名等を調べるサービス （今のところ日本国内のサーバーのみ。

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Online Dictionaries

* Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server - This is more than an online dictionary. You can use it to find a word in a dictionary file, a kanji in the database, or use the new Multi-Radical Kanji Selection. (This works essentially in the same ways as NJStar's Radical Lookup does--You click on the elements which are in the kanji you seek, and a list of kanji meeting your selections will pop up). For your search, you can designate one of the following dictionaries (the default is the EDIC file.):

  1. EDICT - the main Japanese - English file
  2. COMPDIC - Computing & Telecommunications terms
  3. ENAMDICT - a big file of Japanese place and person names
  4. LIFSCIDIC - the Life Sciences dictionary of bio-medical terms
  5. LAWDIC - the University of Washington Legal glossary
  6. JDDICT - a short Japanese - German dictionary
  7. FINMKTDIC - Financial and Marketing terms
  8. MISCDIC - collection of small glossary files, covering: aviation, geology, concrete, pulp & paper, etc.
* Jeffrey's Japanese <-> English Dictionary - Gateway -- excellent online J/E and E/J dictionaries based on edict and kanjidic. ＊ Text-only version ＊ 英和・和英辞典

* オンライン英和・和英辞書『英辞郎 on the Web』 -- プロの翻訳者・通訳者で構成されるＥＤＰ（Electronic Dictionary Project）制作の英和辞書 >『英辞郎』（1999年2月22日現在、バージョン33：見出語総数＝81万語）に基づくオンライン・辞書。一般的な単語から、スラング、イディオム、 ビジネス用語、経済用語、法律用語、特許用語、コンピュータ用語、科学技術用語、医学用語、固有名詞 （組織名・企業名・人名・国名・映画名）などを網羅。また、『略語郎』には、“UNESCO”や“FBI” などの略語が収録されている。このオンライン・ページでは、検索語の英訳・和訳を英和辞書“英辞郎”・ 略語辞書“略語郎”と和英辞書“和英辞郎”から検索できる。前方一致で50件以内のデータを表示する （50件以上の場合は、最初の50件のみ表示）。 ＊　Online English <-> Japanese dictionary containing 810,000 entry words. (Instructions in Japanese only)

* 専門語辞書参照サービス -- Online J-E and E-J dictionaries for specialized industry terminology. (Instructions in Japanese only).

* 『大辞林　第二版』 -- 古語からフレッシュな現代語まで、あらゆる分野の言葉を網羅して23万３千語を収録した大型の ［国語+百科］辞典。* Online version of Sanseido's Daijirin Japanese Dictionary, 2nd ed. with over 230,000 entries, plus Sanseido's EXCEED E-J and J-E dictionaries. (Instructions in Japanese only).

* 『シソーラス辞書検索』 -- 入力されたキーワードで、シソーラス辞典に登録されている同義語／広義語／狭義語／関連語が表示される。 * Online Japanese Thesaurus (Instructions in Japanese only)

* Online Life Science Dictionary "WebLsd" -- Either English or Japanese (Kanji or Kana) word(s) can be used as the query. -- オンライン版ライフサイエンス辞書 "WebLsd" -- 入力された語句が漢字か，かなか，英語かを自動的に判断して検索。

* 和製漢字の辞典 A dictionary of kanji (Chinese characters) created in Japan. (in Japanese)

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Created: 03-01-97 * Last Modified: 04-07-00 * All Rights Reserved.