Welcome to my Japanese language page. You koso! Here I plan to have (hopefully) useful tutorials on the Japanese language, as well as the writing systems and how to use Japanese on your computer. Any pages with actual Japanese text (not images) are encoded in SJIS.

Start here

• About this page.
• Japanese syllables and pronunciation.

Japanese lessons

Japanese writing

• The katakana
• The hiragana

Working in Japanese on your Western computer. (Includes viewing and writing Japanese text)

Links

• Jim Breen's Monash University Nihongo FTP archive - an FTP archive chock full of Japanese program goodness, from word processors to dictionaries to the latest EDICT files to kanji fonts, this place should be your first stop when looking for ways to extend your ability to use Japanese on your computer.
• Patrick Cyber Domain - a page with fairly detailed instructions on how to view CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) text in your web browser without needing an external viewer program.