Japanese Language

This site contains an English-Japanese two way on-line dictionary. The dictionary contains over 50,000 entries in each direction. The result of a search is genarally a list of entries that match the search word - each entry contains a list of words that are translations of the search word without any detailed explanation. All the japanese is in romaji so no special browser is reqired.
There is a Windows95 and later version of the dictionary that can be downloaded free ( just over 1MB ). The downloadable program also has a simple rote teaching facility.
[Site reviewed: 2000-12-10]

This site acts as a front end to the Breen dictionary. There is a large range of options for searching the dictionary, both English-Japanse and Japanese-English. It supports the main dictionary together with the names, life science and legal term dictionaries. There is also a kanji look-up page on the site which allow look-up on a number of indexes from standard reference books and computer coding schemes.

The input for the Japanese in kanji using JIS coding. US mirror site.
[Site reviewed: 2001-01-20]

Although this is a japanese site and all the instructions are in japanes anyone with a little knowledge of kanji will be able to make use of it. There is an English to Japanese and a Japanese to English version. The Japanese entry is in kana/kanji ( EUC ).

[Site reviewed: 2001-01-14]

The dictionary on this site is just English-Japanese. It is aimed at a fairly advanced user as most of the output from a search is in japanese.
The imput is always in English and the output is in kanji ( EUC ). The dictionary itself is based on the Jim Breen's EDICT.
[Site reviewed: 2000-12-17]

JEDI stands for Japanese-English Dictionary Interface and is an on-line interface to the EDICT dictionary from Jim Breen. You can search either the standard dictionary or the names dictionary. The interface can accept input in both romaji and kanji ( ensure you browser is set to Japanese EUC ). The output can be set to either romaji or kanji ( EUC ).
The EDICT dictionary itself can be downloaded as part of the JWPce program.
[Site reviewed: 2000-12-10]

This dictionary is rather different from the rest. It is an ongoing project to generate a dictionary with detailed definitions and examples of use for the words. Currently there are only a few hundred words listed but people are invited to submit new, or edit existing, entries. The entries are all in kanji ( using Shift-JIS ) so a kanji capable browser is required.
[Site reviewed: 2001-04-15]

This is a simple English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionary from Pacific Software Publishing Inc. The Japanese input is in Kanji or Kana ( using Shift-JIS )
[Site reviewed: 2000-12-17]