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• You will need software that enables you to read Japanese characters in order to read some of the following texts. See links below for more information on this.
• Note that there is material on this site in Swedish and English as well as in Japanese.

Kanji and kana

Kanji lists.

• My compilation of jouyou kanji.
• Tutorial material on kanji for my students at the university.

Below are five pictures with 40 kanji on each. They are intended to be printed out and used as flashcard fronts. You'll have to fill in the backsides yourself.

• Flashcard fronts #1
• Flashcard fronts #2
• Flashcard fronts #3
• Flashcard fronts #4
• Flashcard fronts #5

Here I've made a list of all on-readings of kanji that I've learned.

A picture I've constructed in order to help you remember the kana character sets. Use it as wallpaper/background.

Here are some kanji, with their pronounciations and translations.

Travels

Here you can read the journal from my time at Hokkaido Tokai University in Sapporo as an exchange student.

Read about my scholarship trip to Japan in English or in Japanese. (different texts; the English version is a report for the center in Osaka, and the Japanese version is a speech for my studies)

Also have a look at my pictures from this trip.

Papers and essays

This is a speech about Star Trek that I gave at Hokkaido Tokai University in Sapporo.

Here are five essays on Japanese history. They were written by me in Swedish. I got the best possible grade on them.

• The origin of the Yamato state.
• The origin of the samurai class.
• Japan becomes unified.
• The traits of the Tokugawa shogunate.
• The influence of buddhism in Japan.

And here are two more recent essays in Swedish.

• The Meiji restoration.
• Akira Kurosawa.

This is the first paper I ever wrote in Japanese, thus the quality sucks. ;)

This is the above text with the corrections my teacher suggested.

This is my second paper. A bit longer and a bit more complex.

And here is my third paper. For this one I could choose the subject myself.

A small text about my easter '99.

Poems

Ikitai.

Itamukoto.

Monogoto no Shinbi.

Other stuff

I and Japan... A historical review.

Awards I've received for this page.

Links

In order to read and write in Japanese on an English computer you will need software that recognizes Japanese text and displays it correctly. For Microsoft software IME is surely the best alternative.

Here you will find the excellent Japanese word processor JWPce that will work on an English computer.

There are lots of useful Japanese-related software and accessories at the Monash University Japanese FTP archive.

Here you can read my friend Erik's travel log from his stay in Japan. There are both interesting texts and beautiful pictures that he takes with his digital camera.

Here the stroke order of the most basic characters (hiragana, katakana and some kanji) are shown in a very illustrative way. This is a very valuable site for the beginner!

At Joyo96.org you will find among other things much information on the construction and usage of Japanese characters.

On this page you will find a huge list of links to other pages with Japanese fonts.

Here you will find lots of Chinese fonts.