illustrated children's books - ehon

online children's books http://www.arakawa-shizue.jp/web-ehon/index.html#

Revising the list of kanji

[Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008 - Japan Times]
 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20081116a2.html

      A panel of the Council for Cultural Affairs is working to revise the 
official list of Chinese characters in common use (joyo kanji). The 
final proposal is expected in February. The revision should draw the 
attention of not only Japanese but also foreigners interested in 
Japanese culture.
       The current joyo kanji list contains 1,945 characters. The kanji 
panel plans to add 186 characters, including "kan" of 
"kankoku" (Korea) and "satsu" of "kosatsu" (ancient temple).

videos on High School memories; health care options

Each is about 10 minutes or less (in English).

About Japanese health care, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6446526054197373344

Japanese high school memories, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7986423489127429101

online reading of Kanji

http://www.readthekanji.com/

new release of "kanji alive" online

After much work and many delays we've finally released an updated
version of "Kanji alive" that is both much faster than the previous
version and compatible with current versions of Windows and OS X.

You can access it via http://kanjialive.uchicago.edu

katakana intro, roots, links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana
gives a good overview with visual illustrations.

project on classical language of Japanese

-from Paul Baptist:
http://www.lingwiki.com

http://lingwiki.com/index.php?title=Hyakunin_Isshu

http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/bungo/bungo.html

rich site reopened - Minna no kyozai

http://minnanokyozai.jp/
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 　■The number of resources has been expanded!

 　　★Kisetsu no Katsudo
 　　　There are 109 classroom activities that facilitate study of
 　　　Japan's seasons and annual events. Various types of classroom
 　　　activities are available for beginning to advanced proficiency
 　　　levels.

 　　★Elementary Vocabulary Pictures
 　　　This contains 308 black-and-white pictures for basic verbs.

 　■Finding resources has become easier!

 　　★Classroom Activities and Pictures are organized by series (base
 　　　material), enabling a search by series as well as cross search.
 　　　There is also a list of material titles.

 　　★Search of Grammar items had previously been available only
 　　　according to the 50 kana order index, and some users expressed
 　　　difficulty using the search function. On the new site, Grammar
 　　　items can be searched by keyword as well as by two types of lists ("50 kana order list" and "list by proficiency level").