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- Groups/Organizations >> View links from all categories
- Adoption while on Okinawa - A website where adopting families on Okinawa can go to find information and support.
- The Pacific Okinawa Players (POPS) - POPS is a non-profit, volunteer organization who's staff and participants are all dedicated to providing quality live theater to Okinawa. They put on 4-5 shows a year.
- Guides & Reference Sites
- Being A Broad
- Japan Reference - Everything from travel, to culture & society to the language
- Japanese Learning - comprehensive reference
- My Amazon.com Japanese book list - I've assembled some books I've come across that are helping me learn the language and understand the culture.
- Language >> View links from all categories
- A Japanese blog of sorts - the focus is language
- Comprehensive Reference - on the Japanese language
- Engrish - "Engrish" is a play on the letter L. To the Japanese, the sound is similar to the letter R, which they don't have in their alphabets. Living here, I got a kick out of this site because the Japanese guy I work with once spelled the word cRap as cLap.
- Kana & Kanji - Why the Japanese use three different alphabets
- Kana & Kanji - A resource for the three different alphabets in the Japanese language
- Kana: Hiragana practice - shows the strokes that make up the character, as well as provides a printable practice worksheet
- Kana: pronunciation
- Romanization of Japanese words - Explanation
- Verbs: conjugation
- Lifestyle
- A typical Japanese House - Tour the inside of a Japanese house.
- Japanese Holidays
- Local Attractions >> View links from all categories
- Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium - Home to the world's 2nd largest aquarium!
- Southeast Botanical Gardens - Okinawa - The website reads, "Our mission is to discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment, in order to preserve and enrich life." Directions and pricing available!
- Myths/Legends
- Shisa - The story of young Chiga-san and the guardian shisa who saved his village from the fearsome dragon
- Okinawa
- Okinawa Prefecture - Official homepage of the prefectural government.
- Shopping >> View links from all categories
- Marine Corps Gift Shop - Okinawa
- Uniqlo - The Gap of Japan. If you scroll to the bottom of the site, there is an English version.
- Travel >> View links from all categories
- Club Med in Okinawa
- Hato Bus Sightseeing Tours - A company in Tokyo, Japan that provides English-speaking tours around the city via bus
- Japan Rail - see Japan via train
- Japan Rail Pass - get a pass to ride the train while visiting Japan
- The New Sanno Hotel - Military hotel in Tokyo
- Tokyo Hotels and Travel Guide - Comprehensive travel guide to Tokyo Japan including all the main districts in Tokyo city and surrounding suburbs of Tokyo. Plus Tokyo maps, Tokyo itinerary, Tokyo pictures and Tokyo Hotels.
- Tours of mainland Japan
- Websites >> View links from all categories
- Japan with Kids - A website dedicated to English-speaking foreigners living and raising children in Tokyo and other areas of Japan.
- JBox - In their words their company/site is "...bringing Japan and the West closer through shared popular culture." Check it out. You'll get a small taste of some of the things we find here.