Videos of Japan on photojpn's YouTube Channel

Are you interested in Japanese culture? The photojpn video channel has over 250+ cultural videos about Japan. If you enjoy Japan festivals, dancing, drumming, and other arts, you will find lots of enjoyable videos here!

NariKiri eHon ・ Read Traditional FairyTales

NariKiri eHon has a collection of traditional Japanese stories available for free. Enjoy tales such as Momotaro, Urashimatarou, and even other fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood and Hanzel and Gretel. Just click the yellow button below the story of your choice to open the eBook.Your story will appear in a very easy-to-use reading window. There is no sound or audio accompanied with these stories, so you can take your time and enjoy these great stories. Even for adults learning Japanese language a great benefit of using children's books for reading practice is that you can get a great sense of Japanese traditional culture and folklore.

The Mixxer - FREE Language Exchange

The Mixxer is 100% FREE and a great place for language exchange! This is a great resource for conversation partners, reading practice, or even just to make new friends. You can also keep a blog here! Try to write something in Japanese. Do you know about Rikaichan? If you come across some Japanese words you can't understand, it's a great tool to assist you with reading posts written by Japanese users.

Azumino FM Radio Broadcasting Stream

Even just 10 minutes of FM AZUMINO Broadcasting can improve your Japanese listening skills, while expanding your knowledge of the culture of a city like Azimuno. Actually, Azumino is not well-known by foreigners, but very well-known by Japanese. Azumino is in Nagano prefecture and is known for its wasabi, beautiful scenery, and cycling environment. Azumino city is home to several art houses and crafters of all kinds including glass, leather, wood, and more! Azumino is a very relaxing environment and a day spent with Azumino FM is close to taking a trip to the city itself!

All of the stations available are shown on a map. Just click あずみ野エフエムの放送を聴く 音声（６４Ｋ） to start streaming via your computer's media player!　

Nissan N-Link ・ WEB Picture Book

Japan's Nissan corporation includes a special WEB Picture Book section on its website. Personally, this is one my favorite websites for reading practice! First of all there are 3 FREE interactive stories to choose from on this Japanese website: Issunboushi (The Inch-High Samurai), アラジンとまほうのランプ (Aladdin & the Magic Lamp), and ももたろう (The Peach Boy).
This is a very well designed interactive storybook site! The stories are also well-narrated and illustrated with accompanying music and sound FX!

The stories include special interactive features like short activity breaks from the story, such as creating a dance and performing it for friends in Isshun boushi. And of course Nissan finds a cute way to include their *product*

These stories are lengthy written with furigana-attached Kanji characters. With the narrator's voice included, these stories are great for reading practice, listening comprehension, or for entertaining small children.

Kawasaki International Culture Exchange ・ Weekly PENPAL Newsletter

The Weekly PenPal Newsletter is perfect for you if you would like to make friends from Japan. The weekly pen pal news letter is FREE! A penpal list is sent out to your email 4 times per month. This lists includes penpals of all ages from around the world. Many of them are from Japan!

Interested in Japan culture? Traveling to Japan? Want to receive snail mail letters written in Japanese? Create long-lasting friendships with someone through this culture exchange site.

Some people prefer snail mail to Email. Some are eager to send you something like a photo, letter, and maybe even a small souvenir!

Sign up is completely FREE. Start a new friendship today!

Kansai-ben - Learn Kansai Dialect

Kansai-ben is a study tool for Japanese learners who want to study Kansai dialect Kansai-ben, a dialect of Japanese spoken by residents of the Kansai (Western) area of Japan. See and hear how greetings and other expressions in standard Japanese differ from Kansai dialect. You can also see natural conversations which take place in the towns and at markets, etc. There are short quiz questions throughout the site. Challenge your Kansai-ben knowledge!

Japanese Castle Explorer

Japanese Castle Explorer is an interactive map with pictures and information about the castle of Japan. Zoom in or out to explore the castles. The red castles on the map symbolize Japan's historic castles, or in other words: the castle which still stand unrenovated.

When you click on a castle, a small info screen pops up on the right which includes the name of the castle, a 3D virtual tour, option for photos, and more information. Learn the timeline of the castles, about the clans, and about the history as well.

The interactive map also has a Japanese version.

宇宙教育テレビ ・ Space Education TV

On this Space Education TV website, you can access over 100 recorded live stream of science news! This site is geared toward young kids but is a perfect study tool for Japanese language learners, too. The hosts don't speak too fast and often pause. Also the terminology used, even though its science-related, isn't too complicated because it is for kids understanding. If you enjoy science, want to see the culture of Japan's education and classrooms, or you want to work on your listening comprehension, this site has hours and hours of educational information for your ears.

Just scroll down and click on one of the 100+ video stream links!

MixPaper - Free Publications

MixPaper offers well over 150+ FREE publications for children, teens, and adults! This link takes you straight to that page. Click on any image that looks appealing to you! Click on the re 読む button. Your book will open up in a special viewer which allows you to flip through pages just like a real magazine! To make the print bigger click on the red + 拡大 button at the top of the screen. You can quickly learn the functions after a minute of playing around with it.

Though you might find some reading materials to fit your level, I recommend this site for learning more about Japanese culture. There are magazines on stylish Japanese homes and floor plans, sports, and kid's comics.

Tomodachi Picture Book Hall

Tomodachi Picture Book Hall is grear reading practice! This site is in Japanese but that's OK! Click on any title and the story opens up in a new window. Initially the loading is a little slow and there is no audio, however, the pictures move and the stories have accompanying music background which is very lovely. Most stories are in Hiragana. You might see basic level Kanji.

Cooking with Dog - YouTube Channel

Cooking with Dog is a wonderful Japanese recipe and cooking channel on YouTube. There are 175+ short instructional videos on how to cook authetic Japanese foods including sukiyaki, Shu cream puffs, curry rice, sushi, and more! The vidoes are in English and a detailed list of ingredients are included in the video. Most videos are only 3-4 minutes long! There are also subtitles included.

Japanese Nihongo - Conversation

This is a page directed from Japanese-nihongo.com which lists a variety of different conversation topics for beginners including but not limited to introductions, first visit to Japan, taking the train, and getting lost. These conversation lessons are geared towards beginner and intermediate students of Japanese. Options for viewing the lessons may be in HTML webpage form, or PDF or DOC which you can download and save to your computer. In many cases, there are audio files included which play in your web browser.

If you click the Home link at the top of the page, you can find a link which directs you to entries--including some written in Japanese that you can study. There is also links for more conversation dialogues, JLPT, and essays. If you are ready for advance level, I think you will also like reading these.

JapaneseEmoticons - Kaomoji & Emoji

JapaneseEmoticons - This site overs has 2,500 emoticons for your copy-and-paste use! Find the perfect icons for emotions, animals, actions, and more! ☆*･゜ﾟ･*\(^O^)/*･゜ﾟ･*☆

NHK for School

NHK for School Don't let this site scare you off because it it completely in Japanese. It might be kind of confusing if you dont know how to read much Kanji...but...You can access so many different types of content on this site! Though the site is designed for young children and students in Japan, it's a great resource for any person studying Japanese! It can get downright confusing, but just click around and visit this site from time to time and bookmark what's suitable for your level! There are a lot of videos, games, etc. to boost and improve your Japanese language and cultural understanding!

Here is a key and some links to get you started:
番組 -  TV Programs (Bangumi)
クリップ - Clips - Broadcast programs and short educational footage clipsWatch educational programs any time! Study what you are interested in and use for studying the information you are not completely comfortable with.Many of the videos here are 1-3 minute movies. There are supposedly over 3,000 clips.
ゲーム - Games - Educational pages with quizzes and games
There are tons of quizzes and games for fun and language learning including Recycling Trash, 

電子黒板 - (Electronic Blackboard (Denshi Kokuban)

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国語　こくご　　  Japanese language/national laguage (also as a subject in Japanese schools)
算数　さんすう　Arithmetic
理科　りか　　　 science
社会　しゃかい  society
総合　そうごう　coordination/comprehension

Japan Centre - Buy Japanese Food

Japan Centre offers a range of authentic Japanese food from sauces and spices to confectionery and drinks. Enjoy the convenience of shopping online for Japanese food, books and magazines, and more. Global delivery is available! All major credit cards are accepted.

Just One Cookbook - Easy Japanese Recipes and Food Blog

Just One Cookbook is a great website for Japanese recipes! This blog offers tons of authentic recipes for appetizers, entrees, and desserts! Complete recipes are accompanied with both instructional videos AND step-by-step pictures!

No Laughing in Yugawara Batsu Game

No Laughing in Yugawara Batsu Game is a Japanese gameshow. It is said that this is very popular in Japan. Currently it is available as a full-length movie on YouTube. As of today it has been available for about 2 months. Hopefully it is still available for you to enjoy!

The rules of the Batsu Game:
#1: You will stay overnight at a spring inn.

#2:  No matter what, do not laugh during this trip.

#3: If you do laugh, you will be punished immediately

Ba Ba Dum - Play and Learn

Ba Ba Dum is an online collection of games that lets you learn words in different languages by selecting the correct illustration of the example word. One of the languages offered is Japanese! You can pratice spelling words in Japanese, matching the word you see and hear to the correct picture among four pictures shown. 1500 words including nouns, adjectives, and verbs! Very great site for kids and beginner learner but also great site for reviewing learned material for upper levels. Create a free account to save your progress!

WebJapanese

WebJapanese might simple like a bland simple sight upon first sight of the homepage, but there is so much information available to anyone wanting to learn Japanese language, culture, history, and more! While there is different links available, maybe the ones you might find most interesting and helpful to learning about Japan and life there are:





Fun reading:There are readings in English and Japanese written by native Japanese, foreigners living in Japan, people married to Japanese, etc. Topics include marriage, language, life in Japan, recipes, and entertainment.


Archive - Free Japanese Learning Materials:
Via easy photo presentation, you can learn Japanese words and English translations of everyday life, food, nature, fashion, restaurants, history, and more.
 

Learn Japanese with "Pinterest":Although not as extensive, similar to the description of above, WebJapanese has a Pinterest page and you can see some photos mostly about language, history, and food.