Guide picks
About Displaying Japanese Characters
Ever wonder how to display Japanese characters on your computer?
Email: Know Your Environment
Find out what software your sever uses, and what software you need.
Your Computer: Can it Speak Japanese?
Learn how to make your computer Japanese compatible.
Japanese Encoding Methods
A look at how Japanese characters are displayed on the Web and E-mail.
American Mix
Check it out for a variety of Japanese software titles.
CJK Character Set Server
This server generates properly-encoded CJK character sets to be displayed directly in your browser or sent to you (in uuencoded form, if requested or necessary) via e-mail.
Dialect Web
Home of the Canon Wordtank and all your favorite Japanese-language software.
E-tomo for Windows
A Japanese e-mail utility (Freeware).
Eudora-J Information Center!
This page provides information on Eudora-J and other related software and easy download access to them.
ftp.funet.fi files at /pub/culture/japan
The /pub/culture/japan archives at ftp.funet.fi contains a selection of Japan-related programs and files.
Ichitaro
Ichitaro for Japanese Windows has been the most popular Japanese word processor since the early days of personal computing.
Guide to Japanese computing
Information for most kinds of computer environments.
JapanEase (vols 1 & 2)
Vol. 1 teaches 300 katakana and hiragana, 50 basic phrases, gairaigo through katakana syllabary.
Japanese Fonts
If you are on a PC and your browser doesn't support Japanese, or if you think it might if only you had the proper fonts, Microsoft has made a TrueType font available freely.
Japanese Input for Windows running IE4.0
If you are using Windows and IE4.0 on an English version of Windows95/NT4.0 you can now input Japanese text.
Japan Window
A US-Japan Collaboration for Internet-based Japan Information.
Jmail.
J-Mail Japanese Editor for UNIX. Please be sure to go to the "read me" link on the main page.
JREADER Information Page.
An MS-DOS program that can read and display a text file containing Japanese characters (kana & kanji).
Kana Learning Games
Three games to learn kana
Kana Nirvana
Memory game for one or two players to teach Japanese hiragana and katakana to beginning students and those who know romaji.
Ken's Japanese Code Manipulation Tools
A selection of tools that support the three basic Japanese codes: JIS, Shift-JIS, and EUC.
LogoVista
This Japanese page allows translations up to 220 words from English to Japanese.
Microsoft Word-J
Bring all the power of the world's most popular word processor to your PC.
Mikan
Kanji reading software, hypernotes w/grammar and English references; a flash word quizzer, Mikan Personal Dictionary; 500 word vocabulary, intro and intermediate.
Monash Nihongo ftp Archive
A huge download site with loads of program files for both Windows and Mac.