Kanji Game, a free program for studying Japanese characters. Learn Hiragana, Katakana, compounds, and vocabulary.

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Kanji Game is program to facilitate the memorization of Japanese vocabulary words and characters. Learn Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, and compounds online for free. Includes links to many Japan related sites. Please report any bugs or spelling errors. Please allow a few seconds for the page to load. It should be fully functional in Netscape 4+, Internet Exploder 5.5+, Mozilla 1.0.1+, Konqueror, and Opera 6+ as well. Errors that may have prevented the links from working in some browsers have been fixed. Learning Japanese kanji and vocabulary can be fun! First time users please read the foreward below. Just press one of the links below to begin.

Start KANJI GAME   HIRAGANA and KATAKANA GAME   COMPOUNDS GAME in new window.
Start KANJI GAME   HIRAGANA and KATAKANA GAME   COMPOUNDS GAME here.

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FOREWORD      LINKS      SHOW YOUR FRIENDS    DISPLAYING CHARACTERS
I'd like to apologize for not responding to emails for some time. 2 reasons: work has gotten very very busy, and an unimaginable amount of SPAM. Separating real e-mails from spam is no easy task. Some spelling and some links have been fixed. I`d like to thank everyone who has helped me tremendously by pointing out errors. With new Kanji, there are probably many new mistakes also. Please keep telling me when you`ve found them.

If your browser doesn`t support the new version, you can still use the ancient version. START ORIGINAL GAME in new window Start original here

Displaying Japanese Characters

        There was a time when displaying Japanese Characters on your browser was very complicated. Today, its not as much of an issue. In case you are having trouble, the following information may still be of some use to you. Below I have links to two sites where you can download software that will work with most systems. Free trial versions are available. Simply download one and run the program. When this is done, you should see a small strip appear somewhere on the screen. Make sure it is set for S-JIS, the characterset used for this page. KanjiKit should start in S-JIS, but with NJwin, you will have to change it. As soon as this is done, you should be able to view the characters correctly. You may also need to use the encoding option on your browser under the view menu, under fonts for IE, or encoding for Netscape.

IMPORTANT: for Netscape Navigator 4.5 you must go to Character Set under the View menu, and set it to Japanese (auto detect or S-JIS). Once this is done, go to View/character set again, and choose Set Default Character Set. You will need to do this to display the characters on this page, even though it is not required on some other pages. Do this BEFORE starting the game.

NJStar     Kanji Kit

Here are some links that may help:

Japanese Text Initiative, this page starts out "Reading and writing Japanese characters on the Web is still an art, not a science." This is true a very true statement.
Using Japanese language on your computer, a page with visual instructions.

Foreword

       This program is designed for the study of Japanese, both characters, and vocabulary. The words and compounds have been taken them from various sources. No download necessary!

       Before starting a new game choose the options. You can choose to be quizzed on Kanji and answer in English, quizzed in Kana and answer in Kanji, shown English and answer in Kanji... All six ways are possible. After selecting new game, you will be prompted for which level you want to study. Right now in Kanji, you can study from level 1 to 60, and there are twentyfive levels for combinations. Also, for Kanji, you can study all the Kanji learned in 1st through 6th grades, or you can study all of the Kanji in the database by typing in 'all' for level. Also, you can enter level 100 for the first 100 kanji, 200 for the second 100 and so on. They are in the order set up by the ministry of education. The custom process is being updated and will be down for the time being.

       Try out combinations from either English or Kana to Kanji. It took me forever to code.

Links

Links to various Japan related sites. If your link was deleted, its because it couldn`t be followed. Tell me the new address, and I`ll have it up again.

Nihongo chat, a system designed to facilite communication between native Japanese and English speakers.
MSU Japan Club homepage! Michigan State University`s Japan club. Meets on Mondays at Expresso Royale Cafe on Grand River Ave. at 7:00.
Counseling and Support in Japan, a site for counseling and support from psychologist in Tokyo, Japan. Also available in Japanese.
Japan Services, a free weekly ebook and advertising service. Comprehensive information about Japan.
Kanji Clinic, a site designed by the writer of the Kanji Clinic article in The Japan Times. Lots of information for learners of Kanji.
O-Hayo Sensei, which offers a newsletter describing teaching jobs.
Jobs in Japan, for those who want to work in Japan.
Zaurus PDA Dictionary Extension, a site dealing with electronic Japanese dictionaries.
Rikai.com, a website that translates makes reading Japanese websites much easier.
Channel J, watch Japanese television in English streamed over the internet.
Grand Sumo Homepage, find out what's going on with Japan's National Sport.

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       This page is free. Because I have spent a long time on this I have some simple requests.

1. Please inform me of any errors you find. They will be fixed. I am a poor speller. If you think a definition is not sufficient, please feel free to suggest a new one.
2. Please link to this site from your page.
3. Tell all of your Japanese studying friends about this page.

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This page refers to Kanji entries from: A guide to reading and writing Japanese, Basic Kanji Books 1 and 2, An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese, An Introduction to Modern Japanese, and Essential Kanji.