The Japan Guy's 6 Best Japanese Lessons
Donald Ash has spent years in Japan helping people find their way, both linguistically and pragmatically. These are our six favorite lessons from his extensive site!
Who Wants to Play With Katakana Transformers!
These plastic toys are shaped like the names of animals written in katakana—which then transform into the actual animals they represent!
The ABCs of the JLPT
Learn the ins and outs of the benchmark Japanese language test!
8 Ways to Learn Japanese for (Almost) Free!
Learning Japanese can be easy, fun, and nearly free if you're ready to take on the challenge of getting more locally immersed!
15 Years & 800 Pieces of Art
For 50 days every three years, visitors to the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale get to traverse 200 villages to explore what is effectively the largest art gallery in the world.
The 10 JLPT Commandments
Ten rules to live by to ensure a heavenly score on the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.
(Actual) Fun Ways to Learn Japanese Abroad!
Here are some of our favorite tried-and-tested ways to learn Japanese while having fun! And you don't have to be in Japan to do them!
4 Ways to Learn Japanese from YouTube
Not only do we present YouTube's three best Japanese learning channels, we offer a slew of other ways to pick up the language through video!
Japan's 11 Most Gorgeous Drone Videos
Think you can handle watching these drone-shot videos and not be compelled to visit Japan? Just try!
Learn Japanese Vocabulary with Chocolate!
Chocolates that teach Japanese onomatopoeia words unveiled at the 2015 Paris Design Show.
How Do You Study Japanese?
Find out how The Japan Guy lifted himself from zero to the plateau of effective Japanese communication.
Anime Shows How Kanji Can Help You Get Girls
This sweet high-school anime shows how learning kanji can be the key to getting a girlfriend!
Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum
It turns out that kids can enjoy a museum just as much as mom!
5 Reasons the Japanese Language is Crazy
2,000 years of development can leave a pretty big linguistic jumble.
Download these Kanji Worksheets Free!
To help everyone looking to start learning Japanese, the Nihon Ichiban team has created a beginners' kanji ebook that you can view and download totally free!
Want to Learn Japanese? Here’s how I did it.
Find out how to remember 2,000 kanji in just two months!
9 UNESCO Properties in Okinawa
The Curtis family recently checked off all nine of the properties listed under the "Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu."
The 6 Handiest Japanese Learning Tools
Learning Japanese is not as hard as you think!
White Rabbit's JLPT Kanji Flashcards
Spending hours writing lines of kanji doesn't work for you? Then why don't you try playing with them and learning the ones that look alike, allowing you to learn twice as fast!
Learn Japanese Like Darth Vader
This Star Wars Japanese-English dictionary teaches you to talk like Lord Vader!