Mike Kamermans over at NihongoResources.com has been working on a project for years now.  In all likelihood, you’ve seen his site and you may have even downloaded his book-in-progress.  It is a comprehensive book on Japanese grammar and available here to download for free.  He told me he is almost ready to publish a non-digital [...]

This ends Thursday morning (Florida Time), but ALL orders over $20 receive an automatic $5 discount.  No need for a coupon or code.  The discount will automatically show up in your shopping cart.
Discount ends Thursday (9-24-09) morning!

New Promo at TheJapanShop.com!  Buy the wooden Shogi Board and Piece set for $30 and get the Shogi for You & Me software for free.
Shogi is often called “Japanese chess” and the similarities are there, but there are twists.  You play with kanji pieces that can resurrect!
For more information go a-clickin’ this a way.

I have been giving out coupons and deals through Twitter for the past few weeks now.  I really like it since it isn’t as intruding as email and I can send out as many coupons as I want without feeling like a spammer–I really hate spam!

The latest one seems to be popular: Spend over $6 [...]

This is our first physical ‘product’ since we stopped making/selling T-shirts years ago!

We are excited to announce this collection of twelve popular Japanese Lessons & Readers on CD.   Sold separately, these 12 downloads would cost $60. This CD which also includes almost 100 megs of bonus material, is half that. In addition, the shipping is [...]

First the freebie.
Years ago we produced a Hiragana learning pack.  It included a hiragana flashcards PDF that could be printed. I had a request for Katakana flashcards using the same format.
Here it is.
And for the Not Freebie…
(Drum roll please)
We just uploaded a new $5 download. It is a reader for upper beginners called Ikkyuu-san and [...]

Makoto is allow to watch a little bit of Noggin (his favorite channel–shows pre-school level shows like Max and Ruby, a particular favorite) each morning after breakfast while I check email.
After finishing email this morning, I noticed the Noggin show had a black warning stripe at the bottom of the screen reminiscent of a tornado [...]

A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar: One of my favorite books–and most useful!

And it is on sale (24% off) at TJS until Monday!  (after we get back from our Family Trip)

This time it is for beginners. Our most recent readers have been really for Intermediates and somewhat for upper beginners, but today’s release is made specifically for beginners. The classic tale of the Tortoise and the Hare in Japanese!
This pack includes:

An E-Book in Flash for interactive reading and listening (listen to the entire [...]

Every Wednesday we discount a book as low as it can go for 24 hours or so. Today’s Super Suiyoubi deal is Beyond Polite Japanese.
I think any student of Japanese should get this book at some point–not recommended for beginners, though; even Picasso learned the rules before he broke them.
This book has fun words like [...]