Japan Lovers

<div style="text-align: center;"> <!--link--><a href="http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=641"><img src="http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/8971/japlangcp8.jpg" border="0"></a> <!--link--><a href="http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=284"><img src="http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/8185/kanjifs6.jpg" border="0"></a> <!--link--><a href="http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=5821"><img src="http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/2024/75966737cf9.jpg" border="0"></a> Visit these associate clubs as well! <!--center--></div> Japan is a multifaceted country with good things and bad things. This club is all about what you find interesting about the country, either it be manga, anime, food, culture, way of life. Perhaps this fascination also went so far as to go travelling to Japan and experience things first hand instead, and want to share it with others. Last this fascination drove you to actually move there and taking in the whole Japanese way of life 100%. How did you do it, and what were the possitive, negative things about it. Some links to last you a long way into the knowledge of Japan and its language: <u>Pages on various information</u>________________________________________________ <!--link--><a href="http://www.eslcafe.com/">The Esl Cafe </a>- Information for those who are interested in going to Japan to teach English. <!--link--><a href="http://greggman.com/">GMAN</a> - a personal blogg from a man named Gregg. He currently resides in USA again but read his older entries for some great images and great entries. <!--link--><a href="http://www.debito.org/residentspage.html#naturalization">Arudou Debito/Dave Aldwinckle's Page for Longer-Term Residents of Japan</a> - How do you go about to become a long-term resident in Japan? Dave has gone through the process. <!--link--><a href="http://www.thejapanfaq.com/">The Japan Faq.com</a> - Your Complete Guide To Life In Japan! <!--link--><a href="http://www.japan-guide.com/">Japan-guide.com</a> - Japan Travel and Living Guide. Has a great forum section where you can get answers to many questions. <!--link--><a href="http://www.kfm.to/">Kansai Flee Market</a> - has listings of apartments and where to find them. <!--link--><a href="http://www.mofa.go.jp/index.html">The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan</a> - Read all about the process of getting a VISA here. <!--link--><a href="http://www.jref.com/forum/">Japan Forum</a> - forum to all things Japanese. <!--link--><a href="http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi">Money Converter</a> - How much is the yen worth in your currency. Check it here. <!--link--><a href="http://www.japanjobox.com/">Jobs available in Japan</a> <!--link--><a href="http://www.yookoso.com">Yookoso!</a> - Lots of Japan-related links, references and RSS feeds. ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ <u>Language resources</u>_______________________________________________________ <!--link--><a href="http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/Portal_e.aspx">POPjisyo.com</a> - an Japanese -> English parser service. Paste in a webaddress or Japanese text to get a translation of individual words. <!--link--><a href="http://www.japanese-online.com/">Japanese Online</a> <!--link--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_kanji">Wikipedia - learning Kanji</a> <!--link--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Dy%C5%8D_kanji">Wikipedia - Kanji Signs Collection</a> <!--link--><a href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/">Japanese text collection</a> - a collection of books in Japanese free to get to your computer. <!--link--><a href="http://japanese.about.com/library/blsoundfile.htm">about.com - Japanese</a> - with audiofiles so now you can hear any pronounciation mistakes. <!--link--><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Ejwb/wwwjdic.html">Japanese dictionary</a>. <!--link--><a href="http://www.jgram.org/">Japanese Grammar</a> <!--link--><a href="http://www.guidetojapanese.org/">Tae Kim's Japanese guide to Japanese grammar</a> <!--link--><a href="http://www.kanji-a-day.com/">Kanji-a-day</a> - Presents one new Kanji per day for you to learn and memorize. <!--link--><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/129935269/Hiragana_charts.zip">Hiragana Charts</a> - A ZIP file of Hiragana characters created by Zirgo to help you learn! <!--link--><a href="http://wakan.manga.cz/">Wakan - Kanji database and training tool</a> ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ For those who want to show support of this club on their profile page, here is a banner that you can link back to this club. <img src="http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/513/japankt9.jpg" border="0"> Link it to this url: <a href="http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=575" target="_blank">http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=575</a>