blogged "news of the day" Japan

maki_watanabe@jflalc DOTorg

http://jflanews.blogspot.com/
Maki Watanabe Isoyama, The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles

using furigana in Excel

Satoru Shinagawa sends reference, http://katori.adam.ne.jp/studyetc/excel/onepoint/firigana1.htm

summer reading (online text & narration)

http://www.voiceblog.jp/nippon/  is something I chanced upon this morning.
The screenful of text is accompanied by a native-speaker's reading.
One can listen online while reading along, or download the mp3 to a portable device.
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Guven Peter Witteveen, wittevee@umich DOT edu

beginner Japanese online (audio)

helpful since it comes with an audio file, http://www.languageguide.org/nihongo/
http://www.languageguide.org/ (for other languages)

mouse-over Japanese pop-ups

[Charles Kelly] ...Using Firefox, install 2 add-ons, Rikaichan and Backword, to get automatic "mouse over" definitions from English to Japanese, then back to Japanese again.

2007 Japanese Web Page Contest Galleries

http://www.japanesewebpagecontest.com/