Wanting to test my new web cam with the better settings, I made this video showing off a new Nintendo DS software a friend sent me. It is called １度は読んでおきたい・日本文学１００選. It includes 130 Ebooks from famous Japanese author in public domain.

Beginners wouldn’t get much out of it, but Intermediates and above should love [...]

I am fairly new to blogging, but I found Technorati soon after starting this blog. I’ve watched it go from the millions (depressing) to the hundreds of thousands (lower is better, but still depressing), but it has been stagnant recently.
Technorati is kind of like the Google of the blog world. It tracks your progress [...]

A user named Ty posted a question about how the jump feature on the Casio XD-GW9600 actually works.
I only had my web cam and the quality is very poor, but hopefully it will show how it basically works:

It is very easy, but notice when I hit the ‘jump’ key (and then enter) the pop up [...]

Today’s Nintendo DS kanji learning game review is for:
２００万人の漢検
200 Man nin no Kanken
Kanji Test Practice for 2,000,000 People

About the Kanken
The Kanken (漢検) is a test designed for native Japanese speakers, but every year more and more Japanese learners give the test a go. There are ten levels (1 and 2 both have a pre-level [...]

Long ago, people actually used pencils and paper. It is hard to believe, but in an age before computers people couldn’t simply type hiragana and tap the space bar a few times to find the right kanji; they had to remember how to write them—and—then they would actually have to write them! Horrors!
I [...]

I should have posted this this morning since the sale will end some time tomorrow, but all of the Kanji de Manga books are 40% off for our Super Suiyoubi sale. (Today being Wednesday)
Manga University produces cute, little books teaching kana, kanji and Japanese culture through manga - Japanese comics. Their Kanji de Manga [...]

漢字そのままDS楽引辞典 kanji sono mama DS rakubiki jiten
First a bit on the title:
漢字 kanji kanji
そのまま sono mama as is (just like that)
DS DS
楽引 rakubiki easy to lookup [楽 means 'easy' and 引く hiku with regard to dictionaries means 'to lookup']
辞典 jiten dictionary
‘Kanji as you see it, Easy to lookup DS Dictionary’
This is [...]

About a year ago I bought a Nintendo DS and a few kanji training ‘games’ from Japan. I was immediately impressed and decided to add several to our store’s line up. In the next few posts (sequential unless something else tickles my fancy), I would like to do a few spotlight reviews for [...]

Today there really isn’t a good electronic dictionary choice for the very beginner of Japanese. All modern dictionaries are made for Japanese learning English* and only as an afterthought the other way around. Of course they are super useful for upper beginners up, but probably more frustrating than its worth for beginners because [...]

Several years ago, we (painstakingly) created a map of Japan showing all prefectures. It was one of our first products at TheJapanShop.com (actually before we moved the store from TheJapanesePage.com). But after considering the printing and handling costs, we decided to stop selling it. A year or two later, I thought about [...]