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“Hirogaru, get more of Japan and Japanese” is created by the Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, Kansai. It is for learning about Japan and the Japanese language through own interests with authentic materials.
Visual materials for Japanese language & culture offered by NHK World-Japan
Free authentic materials provided by the Japan Forum for primary and secondary school students
A website, created by the Japan Foundation provides registered users with classroom activities, lesson plans, visuals, grammar explanation, teaching methodology, and teachers' forum.
Free website provides information on the stroke orders of Kanji with animation. Handwritten Kanji can be searched.
Users can search Japanese proverbs and idiomatic phrases. The website is in Japanese.
A comprehensive series of course books for Japanese language and culture for adult learners offered by the Japan Foundation. Downloadable materials are also available.
Online Japanese learning platform provided by the Japan Foundation. Marugoto series are used as textbook. Sign-up is required.
The website offered by the Japan Foundation provides Japanese language and culture materials through skits with videos and manga.
List of websites and online tools for studying Japanese created by the Japan Foundation
An e-learning site that offers a fun way to learn a number of character/genre-based Japanese expressions that appear in anime and manga, offered by the Japan Foundation-Language Institute, Kansai
Landing page for Japanese learning programs offered by NHK WORLD-Japan
Playlist created by NHK for School. It provides video contents for learning Japanese through traditional performing arts, dialects, stories, and tanka poems.
YouTube video playlist for Japanese expressions created by Fuji TV
Free books for on-site reading by levels offered by NPT Tadoku. Books are downloadable.
Collection of Japanese literature for advanced/ heritage readers.
All the books are copy-right free or belong to creative commons.
Daily news in simple Japanese with visuals offered by NHK for School
Japanese Keyboard