• www.JapanesePod101.com - Daily
  Perhaps a bit too much time-wasting laughing and joking around and non-study related chatting between presenters, but still very good. (See hints)  If you can't easily locate the podcast feed on their website, just grab it here.
  NEW RSS - http://www.japanesepod101.com/wp-feed-audio.php OLD RSS = http://www.japanesepod101.com/feed/rss/
• learn-japanese.podomatic.com - Some are video, so won't work on all MP3 players.
  RSS = http://learn-japanese.podomatic.com/rss2.xml
• Yuriko Sakamoto's "I Hear Japanese" - This series, developed by Yuriko Sakamoto and David Boxer for eighth grade students at the Windward School, provides instruction in grammar, vocabulary, and bilingual texts.
  RSS = http://homepage.mac.com/yurikosakamoto/rss.xml
• www.jedutainment.com/jedu/ (Ed Rooth)
  Words spoken with a male voice (English) and a female voice (Japanese), along with background music.
• Japanese.libsyn.com
  For beginners. He uses native Japanese speakers for the sample dialogues, etc.
• Nakama Vocabulary Video Podcast (Satoru Shinagawa)
  See the English, then hear the Japanese.
  Even for those without a "pod" capable of playing video .mp4 files, these are useful if viewed online
• Talk Sushi - Learn Japanese　(Nick Kemp)
  He has a native Japanese speaker on each show. Somewhat commercial, promoting services he sells.
  RSS = http://talksushi.libsyn.com/rss

• voiceblog.jp/amane あまね☆ごえ
  Female Voice: Not aimed at JSL students, but she has a beautiful voice and these are high quality short recordings. Good for repeated listenings.
• Nippon VoiceBlog
  Apparently aimed at non-Japanese. Tanscriptions of the show are on the web site. (Not recently updated.)
• voiceblog.jp/reiki 櫻　怜祈（サクラ　レイキ）
  Female Voice: Not aimed at JSL students, but high quality recordings without background music, so good for language study. Sort of an audio diary. (Last updated on December 14, 2006)
• voiceblog.jp/taa 題名未定キャスト
  Male Voice: Not aimed at JSL students, but includes a transcription. (Last updated: July 16, 2006, 7:00 pm)
• Japanese Classical Literature at Bedtime
  RSS = http://jclab.wordpress.com/feed/

A list of directories with podcasts in Japanese

Perhaps good to find conversational listening practice.

• www.voiceblog.jp
• blog.seesaa.jp/contents/genre/0271/0001.html
• pod.ladio.livedoor.com
• dedio.jp

Things to Listen to with Scripts

These could be considered part of the above section as well. Streaming RealVideo News with the exact script of what the announcer says.

• Focus Tokushima
• www.fnn-news.com
• www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/biz
• news.tbs.co.jp/
  Video news with the scripts paraphrased. (Not exact transcriptions.)
• headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/
  A collection of links to current news stories.

Things to Read with "Help"

• www.gonihongo.com (Mayumi Ishida)
  Some reading material with some vocabulary help.
• Hiragana Times - Daily Lesson (In Hiragana)
  It's also available in Romaji.
• チュウ太の読解教材 バンク (Kawamura, Kitamura & Hobara)
  Things to read pre-made with "Reading Tutor."
• E-Kanji
  Reading in a 3-part frame with clickable kanji that show the reading and English in another frame
• Kongetsu no Nihongo
  24 Lessons with furigana as PDF files or Word files.
• Petit Kanji (Patrick Benny)
  Song lyrics with furigana and clickable kanji to get meanings and other words with the same kanji.
• news.kids.yahoo.co.jp
  News with furigana for all kanji.
• NOW OFFLINE: Mainichi Shimbun - ニュースの言葉
  Part of "Mainichi Kids" so all kanji has furigana.

Things to Read

You could use some of the Tools to Help Read Japanese Web Pages listed above to help you read some of these pages.

• Aozora Bunko (青空文庫)
  インターネットの電子図書館 / Free Electronic Texts
• e-bungeikan
• Japanese Text Initiative
  For example: Kappa (河童)
• Tiju's Notebook (H. Shinozaki)
  Text archives
• Shiritsu PDD Toshokan (私立ＰＤＤ図書館)
  The Private Public Domain Data Library
• 電子化された日本語テキスト (M.Shibata)
  Text archives
• Mini-collection of Modern Japanese Literature
  Maintained for the programme of modern Japanese literature at the University of Calgary
• Bible in HTML
  
  
• www.japanpen.or.jp - Novels, short stories, etc. PDF or HTML.
  ...
• Nihon Bunka Keyword Dictionary (Yoichi Sugiura and John K. Gillespie)
  Parallel English and Japanese readings. (I had to pop the Japanese pages out of the frameset and manually set the encoding in order to read the Japanese.)
• な つかしい童謡・唱歌・わらべ歌・寮歌・民謡・歌謡
  Songs that many Japanese know, along with MIDI files, so you can also learn the melodies.
• NewsManga.com
  One disadvantage for lower-level students would be that they can't use tools like Rikaichan to help read the kanji, since the writing is all in images, which also means they can't copy and paste unknown words into an online dictionary.

Video

• Video News from Japan
  • ANN TV News via YouTube - Not quite "live," but they upload stories several times an hour.
  • Asahi Shinbun via YouTube - Several videos a day.
  • Yomiuri Shimbun via YouTube - Several videos a day.
• Japanese Study Videos
  This is my blog of videos that I find on YouTube. Try it first, if you haven't been there yet.
• Basic Colors Video
  See the kanji, listen to the pronunciation, see the colors, all to background music.
• One-minute Japanese: Animals
  More English talking than Japanese, but ...
• The Planet Names in Japanese
  QuickTime Movie: How to memorize the planet names in order.
• www.WeLoveJapanese.com
  A few video clips of dialogs

Grammar Reference & Lessons

• Some Notes on Japanese Grammar (Keith Smillie)
  HTML Version with Kana and Kanji
  JapaneseGrammar.pdf (25 pages, in Romaji only)
• Particles (Tamae K. Prindle)
  Explanations. Sentence samples also have AIFF sound files.
• Griffin University's Grammar Lessons
  Basic Japanese grammar explained in English
• A Logical Japanese Grammar (Masahiko Satou) [Mirror Site]
  Lessons on grammar. Also check out the Japanese Conjugation Builder (in Romaji).
• Nihongo Guide (Tae Kim)
  Basic Grammar, Essential Grammar, Special Expressions, ...
• Nihongo o Narau - Grammar Lessons in Romaji (Domini Lyman)
  Basic lessons up to things like: aka - akaku nai - akaku nakatta
• 日本語教材の日本語駆け込み寺 (100% in Japanese)
  
  .../dictionary/dictionary.html
  Check out the sentence examples.
• Visualizing Japanese Grammar (Shoko Hamano)
  Click the image to watch and listen to a Flash movie.
• http://www.jgram.org/
      Parts of the website require registering.
  
• 複合動詞レキシコン (Compound Verb Lexicon) ( National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)

Lessons

• study.U-biq.org
  Quite a few lessons in Hiragana and Romaji, for beginners (or review for others).
• www.japanese-nihongo.com - ËÌÅèÀéÄá»Ò¤ÎÆüËܸ춵¼¼
  In HTML, Word Doc or PDF (RealAudio sound files, too.)
• AJALT's Survival Japanese
  In Romaji.
• Fundamential Japanese Lessons (Charlotte Meyer)
  There are 12 lessons which will take approximately 5 hours each.
• Cornell University's Japanese Learning Materials (Yuka Kawasaki)
  Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji (Gahoh Data), Listening, Reading, ...
• Nihongo Center - One Point Lessons (www.alc.co.jp)
  Conversational skills, etc. Bilingual pages.
• Nihongo Shoho (Elementary Japanese Language) (Bernhard Garz)
  34 lessons with MP3 files and vocabulary training.
• Sakura - Japanese On-line - Monash University
  Exercises, Web Tasks & Links
• Pera-pera Penguin's 5-Minutes Japanese Class (Hitomi Hirayama)
  Downloadable PDF files. (from the Daily Yomiuri).
• Maktos: Japanese is Possible (Jimmy Seal)
  32 lessons in Romaji (2001) Also hosted on James Dunn's learnjapanese.elanguageschool.net
• Module 1: Japanese Home Stay (University of Alabama)
  A "free" sample lesson
• Kana Quick and Dirty Guide to Japanese
  By Tad Perry (1992), HTML by (John Teehan (1998), Kana by Andy Searls (2000)
• www.Japanese-online.com's Lessons
  Introductory level. Sound files included.
• Info-Japan.com's Lessons
  Introductory level. Grammar, proverbs, ...
• JinJapan.org's KidsWeb Language Lab
  Basic; Hiragana Chart, Katakana Chart, Quick Kanji, 8 Lessons, Flash movies
• Japanese123 - Intermediate Japanese
  There is other stuff on this website, too, but perhaps this is the best entry point for the website.
• www.speakrealjapanese.com

Study Kana (Hiragana & Katakana)

• Learn Those Kana (Larry Battle)
  With audio.
• Wai Wai Nihongo (Ryutaro Toyoda)
  HIragana games in Flash, plus more. (Voice recordings by Kaori Mizumoto)
• Moshi Moshi Student Activities - Requires the Shockwave plugin
  The Hiragana Song
  Hiragana Puzzle
• Another Hiragana Song (nekopy.com)
• The Fox's Ear: One character at a time explained to help you remember them all.
  Katakana
  Hiragana
• Japanese Kana Quizzes (Charles Kelly)
  Multiple-choice quizzes & flashcards: Hiragana and Katakana. Requires Flash 6.
• Zompist's Hiragana Flashcards
• www.kanacards.com (Jonathan Stiles)
  Flashcards and multiple-choice quizzes using the Flash plugin.
• KanaFlash (Tobias Gärder)
  See the character, type in the Romaji (Hepburn?), then see if you got it right.
• Writing Hiragana & Katakana (a-chi.jp)
  Flash movies of stroke order.
• ChipChat Japanese Training (Marty Cawthon)
  Hiragana Drill and Katakana Drill. Requires Java.
• Benjamin Barrett's Japanese Lesson Pages
  Step by step through hiragana with appropriate vocabulary and a little kanji thrown in along the way.
• Okayama University - Hiragana and Katakana Practice
  Some are multiple-choice with sound files, some are fill-in-the-blanks.
• Hiragana Challenge [Instructions] (Kazumi Hatasa)
  Requires Shockwave. Remove all the Hiragana letters from the screen by clicking them in gojuuon order.
• Katakana Challenge [Instructions] (Kazumi Hatasa)
  Requires Shockwave. Remove all the Katakana letters from the screen by clicking them in gojuuon order.
• Simple Hiragana (Taiji Hotta, Reiko Sato and Tomoko Watanabe)
  Hiragana chart with WAV files, exercises on hiragana and vocabulary. Works even without a Japanese font installed.
• Hiragana Chart (with a man's voice) (www.tokyowithkids.com)
  Click the hiragana to hear the pronunciation. Works even without a Japanese font installed.
• Normal Table of Japanese Hiragana with Speech (Rhonda Christensen)
  man's voice using .au files. There is also a Katakana page, too.
• Hiragana Practice (with a woman's voice) (Kimi Furuta)
  Click the hiragana to hear the pronunciation. Works even without a Japanese font installed. Includes non-repeating animated GIFs of stroke order.
• AIUEO Aoi (Yuko Horii Takekawa)
  Hiragana practice with kids' voices. Looks similar to the "hiragana blocks" I had as a kid.
• Hiragana & Katakana Stroke Order (Satoru Shinagawa)
  Uses Gahoh's QuickTime movies
• Hiragana & Katakana Project (Yasuhiro Omoto)
  Click to see stroke order.
• Teach Yourself Japanese (Shinji Takasugi)
  Writing kana, also grammar and more. Try the Java Hiragana Flashcards.
• Java Game of Hiragana and Katakana (Shinji Takasugi)
  Click the pair of hiragana and katakana which share pronunciation
• Image Version for Japanese Hiragana Characters with Speech (Jouji Miwa)
  Click the character and hear a man's voice reading it to you.
• Kana Flashcards
  Randomly shows hiragana images. Works even without a Japanese font installed.
• Hiragana & Katakana Concentration Games (Shunko Muroya)
  This uses Dennie Hoopingarner's JavaScript code.
• Kana Helper (jeffmk [at] myrealbox.com)
  A random character is chosen, then you click its reading on the kana chart. (Also reverse mode is available.)
• www.KanaChart.com (Casey Giles)
  You can see images of katakana and hiragana.
• genki.japantimes.co.jp
  Self study materials for the "Genki" textbook.
• Kana Game (Cathy DeMillion)
  Requires Flash. See the English, click the kana for the word. (dangerous, red, bright, sweet, ...)
• Hiragana Barabara Game
  See a hiragana character broken into pieces and try to guess which one it is. This is more difficult than you might expect.

Help with Writing Japanese

• Learner's Conversion Dictionaries for Japanese Input Methods (Hatasa & Chung)
  Helps write by catching common mistakes when inputting. (Mac or Windows)

Free Software - Various Platforms (Windows, Mac, ...)

• http://ichi2.net/anki/
• Flashcards: Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD
  
• http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/
• Flashcard System+ Windows, Mac, Linux
• http://www.tagaini.net/
• Tagaini Jisho is a free, open-source Japanese dictionary and kanji lookup tool that is available for Windows, MacOS X and Linux
  

• KDrill (Java, etc.)
• Mayjay: Japanese-English Dictionary (Zig Zichterman)
  Uses Java so works on Mac or Windows. (Freeware - GNU License) EDICT data.

Free Software - Windows

• http://zkanji.sourceforge.net/ (Sólyom Zoltán)
  

• Windows Learning Tool and Kanji Lookup
  

• Kanji Gold Flashcards (Denton Hewgill)
• JFC - Japanese Flash Cards (Glenn Rosenthal)
• Kanji Trainer Penpen (Alex Schonfeld)
  A Tetris like (ie. things move and you can't stop them) matching game. Basically, you have to match: kanji character + phonetic reading + English meaning.
• Vashon's Kana Study Aide (Kirkman Vashon)
  A flashcard and multiple-choice quiz program. Requires Windows 95/98/2000/NT.
• DreamKana (James Brown)
  Hiragana and katakana flash card application that does not require any special fonts or language packs.

Free Software - Macintosh

• Kanji Invader for Nakama 1 & Nakama 2
  Includes the complete kanji vocabulary sets for NAKAMA 1 &NAKAMA 2 (Makino, Hatasa &Hatasa, Houghton Mifflin)
• JFC - Japanese Flash Cards (Glenn Rosenthal & Da Woon Jung)
  
  

Things for Teachers

• Japanese Mosaic (uoregon.edu)
  A collection of content-based curricular materials
• Minna no Kyouzai
  Members only, but membership was free when I tried it. (Use a fake email address to avoid the possibility of spam.)
• ftp://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/00INDEX.html
  EDICT and many other files.
• MIT's Kanji Project
  Build your own kanji study web pages using their materials. (For example: MIT Kanji Cards)
  Kanji data cards with QuickTime movies showing how to write them.
• 常用漢字確認ツール
  This will show each non-Jouyou Kanji in red.
• The Royalty-free Photo Gallery for Japanese language Instruction (Hatasa)
• 幕末明治期日本語学関連電子テキスト (H. Kaneko)
  会話書, 辞書

Online Tools

• Online KWIC Concordancers for Japanese Text
  • Experimental; By Yasumasa Someya
• Tanaka Corpus
  • Be careful when using this. I've personally found many errors that I've reported and I would assume there are many other existing errors. Read this warning.

Online Dictionaries

• EDICT (Jim Breen's Japanese-English Dictionary)
  • Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server -Word Lookup
    Search EDICT and various other dictionaries. Fast and clutter-free output.
  • RomajiDesu.com/dictionary (Hai Bui Hoang)
    You may type the word in Japanese, Hiragana, Romaji or English. - Includes advertising.
  • Japanese-English Dictionary Interface (JEDI) (Greg Peterson)
    Fast, clutter-free output.
  • JapaNod.com's Dictionary (Richard Moore)
  • Jeffrey's Japanese <=> English Dictionary (Jeffrey Friedl)
    (If your computer doesn't use S-JIS, then back up the the main page.)
    • http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/j-e/tty/nocolor/sjis/dict
    • http://www.solon.org/cgi-bin/j-e/tty/nocolor/sjis/dict
    • http://rut.org/cgi-bin/j-e/tty/nocolor/sjis/dict
    • http://dict.regex.info/cgi-bin/j-e/tty/nocolor/sjis/dict
    • jLex
      Uses Jim Breen's EDICT data, etc. and data from the old Tanaka Corpus apparently and not the updated Tatoeba.org version. (At least, when checked in 2011, Tatoeba.org wasn't being credited.)
  • www.NihongoResources.com's "clutter-free" version
    Also allows searching only within word types and substring searches.
  • www.online-dictionary.biz/japanese/english/
    www.online-dictionary.biz/english/japanese/
  • www.j-prep.net/reference/ - Free section of a commercial website.
  • www.Mahou.org/Dict
    Does Romaji, too, though not always accurately, so be careful.
  • www.freedict.com
    Apparently uses a 2001 version of EDICT
  • Kanjidict 1.7.1 (Joel Yliluoma)
    It's a JE dictionary -- not (just?) a kanji dictionary. Uses EDICT (1994-2001) old data?
  • http://jisho.org/ (Website is named "Denshi Jisho")  by Kim Ahlström
    
  • http://tangorin.com/ (G.Bober)
  • Bab.la Dictionaries: Japanese-English or English-Japanese
• GigaDict.com's Japanese to Romaji Convertor 日本語よみかた大辞典です。(１６０万項目)
  This does actual word lookups, so should be accurate.
• www.KanjiNetworks.com (Lawrence J. Howell and Hikaru Morimoto)
  It contains etymologies for the 1,945 joyo characters. Can be searched or browsed.
• http://japanese-dict.com/
  
• This one has about 9,000 words, so it perhaps a good dictionary for browsing commonly-used vocabulary.
• There is also a hangman game.
• It includes Romaji as well.
  
• Sanseido's EXCEED Dictionary
  • Goo's Search Engine & Dictionary
    Enter a word once, then you can either search for it in a dictionary (EiWa, WaEi or Kokugo) or on the Web.
  • InfoSeek's EXCEED Interface
• Sanseido's Daily Concise Dictionary, Etc.
  • www.sanseido.net
  • BigLobe's Interface
  • dic.yahoo.co.jp/bin/dsearch
• Shogakukan's Dictionaries
  • dic.yahoo.co.jp
    Same search form for: プログレッシブ和�冀�辞典 | ニューセンチュリー和英辞典 | プログレッシブ�冢唾�辞典 | 新グローバル英和辞典
  • dic.livedoor.com (Japan Knowledge)
    Same search for for E=>J and J=>E.

• Kenkyusha's Dictionary
  • dion.excite.co.jp
  • www.excite.co.jp
    Requires an extra wait and another click. (The search only gives a list of words, so you need to click again.)
• Nova's Dictionary
  Must enter something into the EMAIL address space. A fake email address is OK.
• Babylon's English-Japanese
• www.pi-ppa.com's J-E [E-J]
  Cell-phone output. Romaji input or hiragana input.
• These are primarily English-Japanese Dictionaries
  • http://www.alc.co.jp/
• trans.glova.jp
• Romanized Japanese-English Dictionary (Geo Hara)
  All contents are in images, so you can't use "find" on a page to jump to words.
• 英語表現事典　擬音 語・擬態語集：スペースアルク - Onomatopoeia  Words
  

Japanese-Japanese

• gogen-allguide.com
  Read about the backgrounds of words and where they came from (in Japanese).