Links Listed by Region/Country: Japan - Language, Literature, and Film

See also Language Study for links to study abroad programs in Japan.

Jim Breen’s Japanese Dictionary, MonashUniversity
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html

This online Japanese dictionary allows search by English, Romanized Japanese and kanji.

Japanese Language Teaching Materials Database, Colorado Japanese Language Education Association (CJLEA)
http://www.cjlea.org/

The CJLEA offers a database of Japanese language teaching materials, organized by teacher, theme and grammar.

Japanese Literature: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/japan-lit.html

An annotated directory of Internet resources dealing with Japanese literature.

Japanese Literature in Translation, Japan Foundation
http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/db/index.html

Online database of Japanese literature available in English translation.

Kinema Club , Ohio State University
http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/

A useful source for teaching, researching, and discussing Japanese film. Also includes reviews and useful film-related links.

Michigan Classics Online, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/publications/michclassics/index.html

Complete PDF copies of University of Michigan Press books on Japanese film including Noël Burch’s To the Distant Observer and Donald Richie’s Japanese Cinema: Film Style and National Character. Other out of print texts are also available from this website.

Professor Michael Geoffrey Watson’s Homepage, Meiji Gakuin University
http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~watson/

Select “Heike monogatari,” “Genji Monogatari,” “Noh Theatre,” and “Reference Material” for a thorough list of links to information on Noh and the premodern classics of Japanese literature.

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