A distance education platform and social network service for live tutoring through text and video chat. The site has a very friendly community, an easy to use interface, and hundreds of classes—both free and paid, individual and one-to-many—to choose from. For $29/month, one can buy a SuperPass giving free access to all one-to-many classes.

An online flashcards review community with user generated lists on all sorts of topics. It has a beautiful interface,a friendly community, and progress statistics which make learning competitive & fun.

A language exchange social network. Write journal entries in the language that you are learning, get them corrected from native speakers of the language, then correct theirs. For $5/month one can get a Premium account which allow one to download the corrected journals as a PDF, unlimited number of sentences in a notebook, journal search, a personal URL and a photo album.

Learn Chinese characters and Japanese characters by writing them with your mouse or tablet, track your progress, and prepare for the HSK or the JLPT the easy way.

Read The Kanji is an online kanji & vocabulary quiz with a nice UI and a very well presented progress statistics page.

Reviewing the Kanji is a web site dedicated to help you complete the Remembering the Kanji method, and attain proficiency in recognising and writing 2000+ Japanese characters no less.

A resource for those who want to learn Japanese grammar in a rational, intuitive way that makes sense in Japanese. The explanations are focused on how to make sense of the grammar not from English but from a Japanese point of view.

An easy-to-use and powerful Japanese↔English with romaji support, kanji reference with search by radicals, tons of example sentences, mobile version and a very nice, intuitive UI. WWWJDIC & KANJIDIC2 based (approximately 110,000 general, 12,000 computer, 14,000 engineering and science terms, 13,000 kanji, 500,000 names and over 160,000 example sentences from the Tanaka Corpus).

Jim Breen's (Monash University) Japanese↔English, German, French, Russian, Swedish, Hungarian, Spanish, Dutch dictionary with tons of topical dictionaries and audio pronounciations. WWWJDIC based (approximately 130,000 general terms, 13,000 kanji, 720,000 names, 160,000 entries in specialized dictionaries and over 160,000 example sentences from the Tanaka Corpus).

A Japanese↔English dictionary with example sentences, kanji stroke orders and a very nice, intuitive UI. WWWJDIC & KANJIDIC2 based (approximately 140,000 general terms, 13,000 kanji, 730,000 names, 160,000 entries in specialized dictionaries and over 150,000 example sentences from the Tanaka Corpus).

A Japanese↔Japanese and Japanese↔English dictionary with suffix/prefix matching, search history and example sentences. The site is in Japanese. Daijirin/Exceed (Sanseido) based.

A Japanese↔English and Japanese↔Japanese dictionary with suffix/prefix matching, example sentences. The site is in Japanese. Daijirin/Exceed (Sanseido) based.

A Japanese↔Japanese and Japanese↔English dictionary with suffix/prefix matching and example sentences. The site is in Japanese. Kenkyusha & Daijirin (Sanseido) based (approximately 173,000 entries).

A Japanese↔Japanese and Japanese↔English dictionary with suffix/prefix matching, idioms database and example sentences. The site is in Japanese. Sanseido based (approximately 173,000 entries).

A Japanese↔Japanese and Japanese↔English dictionary with suffix/prefix matching and example sentences. The site is in Japanese. Shogakukan based.

A Japanese↔English dictionary with romaji support, virtual keyboard, suffix/prefix matching, and a hangman game.

A Japanese grammar database relying on user contributions with lessons categorized by JLPT level, example sentences, and a grammar quiz & newsletter.

A very interesting Japanese↔English onomatopeia dictionary with example sentences. The site is in Japanese.

A language course podcast & vodcast with tons of lessons ranging in difficulty from Newbie to Upper Intermediate level. Many lessons are free and a paid subscription ($4/month for the Basic, $10/month for the Premium, and $26/month for the premiumPLUS) not only gives you access to all of the podcasts but also to a myriad of games, dictionaries and other online language learning tools.

A podcast & vodcast about Japanese language and culture featuring interesting Japanese language lessons, interviews, cultural notes, and more.

A podcast by Caught*Red-handed about Japanese language, culture, media, design and everything else related to the Land of the Rising Sun.

A weekly hour-long musical podcast from Japanator.com playing a wide range of Japanese music, from rock to pop to metal to electro and just about everything in-between, both new and old.

A social bookmarking site, devoted to blogs and news about Japan.

a social bookmarking site that gives you an instant overview of the most popular English language articles about Japan and the other countries of East Asia.

A blog about Japanese language, culture, food, design and technology by Philip Seyfi; a Russian new media developer & designer, author of the NihongoUp Japanese educational game.

Khatzumoto's comprehensive method for self-teaching Japanese (or any other language) quickly, enjoyably, and to native-level fluency — all before ever visiting the country.

“Hand-crafted with loving care and attention, wondrously nurtured from seed to vine, and finished, proof-read and glued together with skilled precision, expertise and know-how: welcome to Caught*Red-handed. This is the brainchild of me, Ryan Taylor, the obsessive, compulsive and fanatical Yorkshire lad, longing for life in the Land of the Rising Sun.”

A blog by for those wishing to learn more about Japan and its culture. Range of topics from geography and history to culture and anime. Especially, learning the Japanese Language.

Articles on Japan and Bioluminescence. Learn Japanese with Michael Gakuran, discover Japanese culture and the mystery of deep sea creatures!

A blog by Rob Hoolan, writing articles about Japanese media, and aspiring to live and work in Japan as a Web designer whilst also producing and performing music for fun.

“A collection of the things I wish people had told me at different points in my Japanese studying career. Some posts are aimed at beginners, others at intermediate students, and occasionally I even come up with something for advanced students. I also end up writing a lot about Japan in general.”

A Japan-related — culture, animé, video games, photos — blog run by Yuan-Hao Chiang, a Costa Rica Institute of Technology graduate (Computer Engineering) and co-owner of a small Independent Video Game Developer studio emphasizing Asian markets (Japan and Korea).

A blog by a young Jamaican who writes about his great interest in Japan and it's culture. Topics include, anime, technology, sports, science, humour and more.

A blog on life, culture & language in Japan by Mike, a British student, splitting his time between Japan and England, and sharing some of his experiences with the world.

A website about Japanese words, phrases, and educational materials & study tools.

A blog by Harvey, an international relations student and technical translator who lived, studied and worked in Japan for 7 years, about Japanese culture, language, art, gadgets, food, travel, media and more.

A blog by Namiko Abe; a Japanese techer, translator and and About.com Guide to Japanese Language. Her blog offers lessons, articles related language and culture, links to Japanese language resources and more.

Lessons and advice to help you learn Japanese ...and a little bit about life in Japan.

A blog by Thomas Hjelm with time- and money-saving tips for students, visitors, workers or lifers in Japan.

An entertaining, yet informative, blog about Japanese cutlure, movies, art, design, and futuristic technology.

A place for learning about Japanese language and culture by Brett Fyfield, an English teacher with over 6 years experience teaching in Japan and Australia, working at University as a international student adviser by day, and a Japanese Teacher by night, and married to a Japanese wife.

A blog by Deas Richardson who is currently living as a JET and teaching English in the middle of the Seto Inland Sea, a gorgeous part of Japan.

A wonky Japanese language and culture blog by Koichi—a Social Marketing Manager at eduFire—, with the goal of helping anyone and everyone learn Japanese!

A blog by Lee Chapman, a fella from England who has been living in Tokyo since 1998, with pictures of everyday — and sometimes not so everyday — life in Japan.

A blog by Will, an Australian who is learning Japanese and all those crazy things that come from the land of the rising sun.

Danny Choo resides in Tokyo and writes about life in Japan and Japanese pop culture which includes anime, figurines, dolls, cosplay, games and everything else that comes under the genre.

A blog by Lloyd Vincent, a translator living in Nagoya, that offers useful and enjoyable content for Japanese language learners, foreigners living in Japan, and anyone else with an active interest in the country.