Useful Links

External Fukui Links

Fukui Prefectural Government Site. Lots of info, leans towards statistics and basic information for the curious.

http://www.pref.fukui.jp/english/index.html

To Live in Fukui "Daily Life Information for Foreigners in Japan". Lots of good information here for everyone, not just JETs.

http://info.pref.fukui.jp/kokusai/tagengo/html_e/top.html

Fukui Prefecture's Tourist Site

http://www.fuku-e.com/lang/english/

The Fukui City official website. Actual step by step instructions for how to separate your trash in the city. Invaluable! Also includes a link to the Fukui Interanational Association.

http://www.city.fukui.lg.jp/lang/english/index.html

Did you know that Fukui is the dinosaur capital of Japan? Well now you do! This is the English link the Dinosaur Museum in Katsuyama.

http://www.dinosaur.pref.fukui.jp/en/index.html

Learning Japanese

JET Programme website’s “language tips”. Includes personal anecdotes and very useful links.

http://www.jetprogramme.org/e/langtip/l_00.html

(Some of the links below were brazenly stolen from the JET site listed above)

Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) site

http://www.jees.or.jp/jlpt/en/index.htm

Charles Kelly’s Online Japanese Language Study Materials

http://www.manythings.org/japanese/

The Kanji Kentei website (the Kanji Kentei is a Kanji test for both Japanese people and anyone learning the language – the site is in Japanese)

http://www.kanken.or.jp/index.html

A list of kanji by school grade (and links of other breakdowns)

http://www.jref.com/language/grade_breakdown_kanji_gakunenbetsu.shtml

Introduction to radicals (for beginners from About.com)

http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa070101a.htm

A list of radicals and their meaning in English

http://www.nuthatch.com/kanji/demo/radicals.html

Online dictionaries:
http://www.alc.co.jp/
(Good for many definitions and examples)

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C
(Good if you cannot read the kanji)

and for those who use mozilla, to read all your kanjis:
http://rikaichan.mozdev.org/

LEGAL/OFFICIAL
Immigration Bureau of Japan
http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/english/index.html
CLAIR Multilingual Guide to Living in Japan
http://www.clair.or.jp/tagengo/index.html
National Police Agency
http://www.npa.go.jp/english/index.htm
Japan Postal Service
http://www.post.japanpost.jp/english/index.html

HEALTH

FIA site listing Fukui-ken hospitals where English is spoken (for all towns, not just Fukui City)

http://www.f-i-a.or.jp/k/ie/index.html
International Mental Health Professionals of Japan
http://www.imhpj.org/
Tokyo English Life Line (free anonymous telephone counseling)
http://www.telljp.com/

TRANSPORTATION
Jorudan Train Route Finder (English)
http://www.jorudan.co.jp/english/
Hyperdia Train Route Finder (English)
http://www.hyperdia.com/cgi-english/hyperWeb.cgi
Japan Bus Web - information on using the highway buses in Japan (including the night bus to Tokyo…)

http://www.bus.or.jp/e/
JR East Japan
http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/index.html

JR West Japan

http://www.westjr.co.jp/english/global.html

Japan Automobile Federation (JAF)
http://www.jaf.or.jp/e/index.htm

Weather, earthquake, typhoon:
http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/indexe.html

Teaching

Links to New Horizon materials

http://jhsenglipediaproject.com/textbook.aspx

http://www.fujet.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=54&Itemid=32