Japanese Languages Information

Japanese: the Language issue:

• Where did Japanese Come from? (A general Western perspective)

Typing Japanese on non-Japanese Windows Environment

• Asian Languages IME for IE/MS Office
• Twinbridge Japanese Partner 4.0 Trial Version (Download here)
• I just want to read Japanese. I don't need to type.  Is there any better and smaller software to suggest?
  • MagicWin 98
  • NJStar CJK Viewer

Link to Homepages about Japanese Languages

• Japanese language information on MSN Encarta
• Searching Japanese Information with Yahoo
• Japanese Dictionaries on the Web
• Jeffrey Friedl's Japanese-English Character Dictionary (in Canada, the most current one)
• Links suggested by Uchiki about learning Japanese online
  • http://japanese.about.com/education/languages/japanese/
  • Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server (Japanese-English Online Dictionary)
  • Shingumi -- New Class (Homepage about Japanese Culture)
  • http://kyositu.uhome.net/jap_intro.htm (in Hong Kong Chinese)
  • http://japan.uhome.net/
  • http://www.enteract.com/~sonobe/japan/
• Learn more about the Japanese Culture!
  • Reading ancient Japanese Text (Original at http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~erlove/j_mokuji.htm)