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Keyboarding in Japanese
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/subjects/japanese/sakura/exercises.html
practice typing in Japanese with various exercises (requires hiragana recognition)
Typing games http://kids.nifty.com/game/calendar/index.htm#20080113
Typing and other games
Emoticons http://club.pep.ne.jp/~hiroette/en/facemarks/
Japanese emoticons/smilies
Electrical appliances http://www.neverland.to/kanji/gate.html
Reading Kanji on electrical appliances. Kanji explained with pictures.
Magazine http://www.s-woman.net/st/
Teen magazine online
Movie, book, game top charts http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/
Contains ranking charts for music, movies, books and magazines, as well as game software, comics, dramas and even commercials. Useful when gathering information for comparative cultural studies (or the new Intercultural Investigations). Compare what rates well in Japan with that back here in Australia or the US.
Movie new releases http://www.eiga.com/index.shtml
Information about recent releases and reviews of already released movies.
Movie trailers http://www.apple.com/jp/trailers/
Free downloadable Japanese movie trailers.
Japanese 'My space' http://mixi.jp/show_log.pl
Biggest on-line networking site in Japan with more than 4 million participants. Students can create their own profile, upload photos, write a diary entry etc. Japanese version of ‘facebook’ or ‘myspace’,.
TV commercials http://www.cmjapan.com/
Japanese TV commmercials
TV guide http://tv.yahoo.co.jp/
Japanese TV program guide. Search by prefecture, day & date, timeslot or genre.
Weather http://weather.msn.co.jp/world.armx
Japan's weather
Weather report http://www.tenki.jp/syoh/weekly_300k.html
Watch TV broadcast of daily, weekly or monthly weather through Windows Media player