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Most of the links below have been retrieved from the JET Wikia and JET Programme sites. If you are aware of any updates or bad links please advise us via email (at bottom of the page). Likewise, if you would like to add a link please forward the details.

Contents:

Teaching Sites - Japanese study - JET Prefectural Info & Websites

Teaching Sites

Genki English - packed full of games, songs and activities. Great for Elementary school. Some materials are not free.

Kumamoto University's Elementary school English flashcards - fantastic flashcards designed for use in the Japanese classroom.

MES English - excellent resource for colorful and entertaining flashcards. Good for Elementary and first year Junior High. All materials are free.

NATTO Database - National Archive of Teaching Techniques Online. Download lessons and games here. Upload and share your own activities with the rest of the JET community.

Oxfam's Cool Planet - teaching activities for cultural awareness and global citizenship.

Puzzle maker - great for last minute worksheets

Englipedia - Lots of useful activities that can be tied into classroom textbooks.

Three Wise Monkeys - activities and ideas. Good for JHS.

Wikigogy.org - similar website to WikiJET but non-Japan specific.

ESLWell.com - A website that was created by a former JET for JETs. Not just teaching material but a lot of other features too.

Lesson Plans - from the official JET Programme forum site

Other Links:
MEXT Guidelines for Elementary and JHS Game Board Templates
Be An Effective EFL Teacher Natto English
Breaking News English (High School) Niigata AJET Lesson Ideas
CanTeach: Writing/Journal Prompts British Council Japan
Saga JET Worksheets and Lesson Plans Teaching Activities/Games
Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) Ota ALT Lesson Plan Blog
Intro to Grammar and Classroom Japanese Oshieroo

Japanese study

KanjiMyBlog.com - Add customised random Kanji to your blog or homepage!

Reading Tutor - helpful translation website. Gives hiragana readings for kanji and English translation.

Tae Kim's guide to Japanese grammar - covers basic to advanced grammar in an easy-to-understand way.

The JLPT Study Page - is a solid site for information on the JLPT levels 4, 3, and 2.

Kanji Practice - a site with quicktime video of Kanji stroke order.

Tad Perry's Quick and Dirty guide to Japanese - A romaji version of just the essentials for informal Japanese. A kana version is also available on the web.

Rikaichan - An absolutely awesome browser dictionary for Firefox. It's free and worth the effort if you hate constantly looking up words. Scroll your cursor over words to look them up. It recognizes compounds and names.

The Super dictionary - An excellent site for help regarding turning a PDA into a electronic dictionary. Also features solid reviews of other electronic dictionaries. This site is run by an ex-JET.

JTango - Dictionary search site. Search in English, romaji or Japanese.

The new CLAIR Japanese language course.

Other Links:

Spaced Repetition Memorization Site Yoshida Institute: Learning Japanese
Site that adds furigana to other sites QWERTY typing into kana chart
Mozilla, mouse-over kanji dictionary Java Kanji Flashcards
Kanji Kentei (Kanji Exam, Japanese Only) Nihongo Jouzu
JTEST: Test of Practical Japanese JapanesePOD101
Business Japanese Test (BJT, JETRO) Japanese Sign Language
Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) Easy-peasey, Japanesey
JLTP Kanji Memorization site Drill Japanese Kanji

Online Dictionaries and Translation:

ALC Eigotown
Excite.jp Online Dictionary Jim Breen's JDIC
Kantango Yahoo.jp Online Dictionary

JET Prefectural websites

The following links are to JET prefectural websites. Some of them are affliated with National AJET while others are not. The most active/relevant website is linked to from here. If you know of a better link, please email us (see bottom of page). If you would like to discuss or advertise events in your prefecture please do so via our forums.


Japan Map of Prefectures
Hokkaido

1. Hokkaido

Tohoku

2. Aomori
3. Iwate
4. Miyagi
5. Akita
6. Yamagata
7. Fukushima

Kanto

8. Ibaraki
9. Tochigi
10. Gunma
11. Saitama
12. Chiba
13. Tokyo
14. Kanagawa

Chubu

15. Niigata
16. Toyama
17. Ishikawa
18. Fukui
19. Yamanashi
20. Nagano
21. Gifu
22. Shizuoka
23. Aichi

Kansai

24. Mie
25. Shiga
26. Kyoto
27. Osaka
28. Hyogo
29. Nara
30. Wakayama

Chugoku

31. Tottori
32. Shimane
33. Okayama
34. Hiroshima
35. Yamaguchi

Shikoku

36. Tokushima
37. Kagawa
38. Ehime
39. Kochi

Kyushu & Okinawa

40. Fukuoka
41. Saga
42. Nagasaki
43. Kumamoto
44. Oita
45. Miyazaki
46. Kagoshima
47. Okinawa

JET prefectural website links are updated here. Official AJET Website

 

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