This is our first instant download in almost a year.  We have been so busy with iPhone apps, this part of our business was totally neglected.  But I’m happy to announce we have a new $5 download!
Or actually, we don’t.  After some thought, we decided to change our pricing schedule.  Up until yesterday, all of [...]

Yesterday morning we loaded up the minivan and headed south for… the annual Orlando Japan Festival.  This was the third year we’ve gone and every year it gets bigger and bigger.  There were a ton of people–many more than last year, I think.

We were planning to get a booth, but decided to be a sponsor [...]

I’m working on an update for our Karate app on the iPhone.  It contains karate related Japanese terms and phrases.

As a request from a user, I’m adding two groups of phrases and decided to add them to TJP with the audio here:
Dojo Kun and Niju Kun
The Dojo Kun are five succinct guidelines for becoming the [...]

For a limited time (meaning, Clay hasn’t decided yet!), we are discounting our popular Beginners Vocabulary Download to less than a buck! (well, ok, one penny less than a buck)
This instant gratification download has over 500 sound files and it is actually the base for our first iPhone app called Japanese Phrases and Lessons.  If [...]

I just added a new section to theJapanesePage.com’s online audio phrasebook: Family Words
A few days ago, I got an email from a user of our Japanese Phrases & Lessons iPhone app.  He was very complimentary;  I had to press him for suggestions for improvements. 
His wife’s family lives in Brazil and speaks Portuguese and Japanese–no English.  [...]

On February 4th, 2008 I proudly announced that our Youtube account had 1000 subscribers.  On July 18th, 2008, we got our 2000th subscriber.  I didn’t exactly keep track since then, but today we hit 6000.  I really need to make more videos!
(see Youtube Account to be #6001)

Makoto, Baba, and I went to this Matsuri (festival) at Mount Monju.  I stumbled on this footage the other day and threw it up (not literally) on Youtube.

This is based on our Podcast #10 and only covers two countries (US and England!).

For more on this, please see our Flash Countries, Languages, and People page with sound.
By the way–I just figured out how to switch my Youtube channel page to display the video Widescreen. It had been squeezing the video to fit [...]

義理と褌欠かされぬ
giri to fundoshi kakasarenu
Never fail to do your duty or wear your fundoshi
The 大辞泉 (daijisen) Japanese-Japanese dictionary has this definition:
男子は常に褌を締めなければならないように、義理を欠いてはならない。
Just as a man must always fasten his fundoshi, so should you never fail in your social obligations.
And the Kodansha J-E translates it as: “Social obligation and underpants–two things you can’t do without”
‘Twonce in a while, [...]

We are running a promotion at TheJapanShop.com where you can get the Genki Answer Key (has all the answers for both volumes of textbooks and workbooks) for half price with the purchase of ANY other Genki item.
The Genki series has got to be the most popular Japanese textbook series out there.  Textbooks seem to be [...]