Tsu-chan's Japan Page Tsu-chan's Japan Page My interest in
Japan started while I worked at a language school in the North
of England. Since then I took every opportunity to study Japanese
language and worked towards visiting Japan. I eventually got
to Japan in December 1995 and spent five weeks staying with friends
and discovering the country. Before I left, I undertook to come
back to study Japanese, starting before the end of 1997. From
October 1997 I have been studying Japanese in Sapporo.
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- Five
Weeks in Japan (Size: 83k)
I wrote this article after returning
from my first visit to Japan (January 1996). Recently I have
been interested to see how similar some of my thoughts were to
others in a similar position.
- British
Universities which teach Japanese (Size:
45k)
This is a file I put together in
April 1997, based on the UCAS guide, and modified and extended
as I rang around the universities.
| - Information about Sapporo | |
| Useful information for English speakers in Sapporo | (Excellent summary compiled by Toshihiro Mori) |
| Sapporo information page for foreigners | Some interesting and useful information on this site by Emile (last name unknown). (Note: if you have problems reading some of the characters on the site, try changing the character-set to Japanese Auto-detect, or similar.) |
| HBC Site | Live Video of Sapporo and Susukino, information, photographs of the HBC sponsored areas of the recent Sapporo Snow Festival) |
| - Language schools in Japan | |
| So far as I am aware, there is currently very little useful information on the Web for people who want to study Japanese in Japan. Information which exists on the Web is either so pitifully out of date that more than half the entires are now out of business, or else only cover a very few language schools. Please let me know of any new developments and I will happily link them on this site. | |
| - Living in Japan | |
| "Japanese Accents" | (Information about living, working and travelling in Japan, by Matt Malcomson) |
| - Japan-related discussion groups in English | |
| Issho Kikaku | (Non-profit organisation promoting Japanese internationalisation) |
| H-Japan | (Forum of discussion for academics and professionals on Japanese history, culture, religion and society) |
| Nihongo | (E-Mail discussion group on Japanese Language and Culture) |
| - Japanese Newspapers in English | |
| Asahi Shinbun | (Today's news from Asahi Shinbun in English) |
| Hokkaido Shinbun | (Japanese language only) |
| Japan Times | (The Japan Times is a weekly, English-language only publication) |
| Mainichi Shinbun | (Today's news from Mainichi Shinbun in English) |
| Yomiuri Shinbun | (Today's news from Yomiuri Shinbun in English) |
| - Japanese Language Enabling your PC | |
| Asian Suite | (If you're using a PC with a non-Japanese operating system, this software developed by Union Way will allow you to read and type Japanese characters in a Windows environment non-Japanese operating system, this software developed by Union Way will allow you to read and type Japanese characters in a Windows environment. It isn't a perfect solution, but it's a good effort and probably the best there is at the present time.) |
| - Miscellaneous interesting Japan-related sites | |
| Japan Information | (great site - oodles of information... and part of the Sun site giving information on Asian countries) |
| "Grail Search" info | Summary information and links to Japanese web-based newspapers and journals |
| Plethora of Japan-related links | (often in English)... something may be interesting |
| Song Title | Group |
| M | Princess Princess |
| Pride | Imai Miki |
| White Breath | TM Revolution |
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I'm interested to hear from anyone on the subject of Japan, especially anyone from Sapporo. Please drop me line, in Japanese or English, at tsuchan@gol.com (messages in Japanese) and tsuchan@bigfoot.com (messages in non-Japanese)
Last Update: 02.Jan.99
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