Useful websites for self-study of foreign languages, online dictionaries and country-specific information sources

Jisho

Online Japanese-English dictionary that can be used to look up words, Chinese characters, and example sentences. You can also search by handwriting, radicals and voice.

Shirabe Jisho

Dictionary app to look up Japanese words. Enter a Japanese word and its meaning is shown in English.

Google Translate

More than 100 languages can be translated into Japanese. It can be also used to translate photographed words, to check pronunciations, and for various other purposes.

NHK World

Various NHK programs are available for viewing on a website and app, such as news and other programs, TV and radio programs in English, and Japanese language study programs.

Learn Japanese

This website collects Japanese language study programs provided by NHK World Japan. Learners can choose programs by level, setting and topic.

Marugoto+

A website to learn Japanese language and culture according to Marugoto Nihon no Kotoba to Bunka (Whole Japanese Language and Culture), the Japan Foundation’s official Japanese language course book that conforms to the JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education.

GENKI

This site provides videos that provide learner-friendly, one-by-one explanations on the sentence patterns to be studied in each lesson in An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese GENKI, an elementary Japanese language textbook.

Web Magazine MATCHA

A web-based magazine containing Japanese information for foreign tourists to Japan. The information covers popular tourist destinations such as Tokyo and Kyoto, and all the rest of Japan from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south.