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From Japan With ♥ is a blog dedicated to providing high quality content on all topics related to Japan. 日本が大好きですよ！ *Please note: We try to be as accurate as possible in our posts but we're not experts(yet). If you do find something erroneous, mention it. Thank you!

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The Sakura are finally blooming here in the US. We're almost at the time for launching our website! Stayed tuned for more great Sakura pictures.

What type/color of Sakura tree do you prefer?

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From Japan With Heart ♥

From Japan With ♥ is a blog dedicated to providing high quality content on all topics related to Japan.

Just to let you all know, the website and blog platform are in the final stages of development. We're just taking this time to make some more content for when the site goes live. In the mean time, remember to bookmark us! (Click the link to find out the exact launch date.)

What this means for you tumblr users is that our content will be hosted by us from now on. Never fear, you can still subscribe to us here as we will keep our tumblr updated for links to our posts!

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New and improved logo.

Don't worry, we're still working on bringing you the best of From Japan With ♥! We'll be seeing the new website launch soon, after some unforeseen financial losses.

Stay tuned for the latest,

-FJWH team

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Tokyo sky by Ikusuki on Flickr.

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Learning Japanese cheat sheets 

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Textbooks:

A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar

A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar

Read Real Japanese Fiction

GENKI: Integrated Elementary Japanese I and II [beginners]

An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese

Tobira (Gateway to advanced Japanese)

TextFugu [an online textbook]

Heisig’s Remembering Kanji

Basic Kanji Book Vol.1

Kanji in Context

Shadowing: Let’s Speak Japanese! (Beginner to Intermediate Level)

Online Dictionaries:

ALC (I use this everyday) →Expression encyclopaedia 

Goo dictionary

Weblio

WWWJDIC (with audio clips)

JWPce (downloadable dictionary for Windows)

JEDict (downloadable for Mac users)

Idiomatic Expressions

Zokugo-Dict (slang dictionary) [Japanese only]

Idioms dictionary [Japanese only]

Counters dictionary

Hovering dictionaries:  →Rikaikun for Chrome →Rikaichan for Firefox →Floating Dictionary for Mac

Current Affairs dictionary

Tangorin

Imiwa? (a dictionary for the iPhone)

Tagaini Jisho (downloadable for Windows, Mac and Linux)

Nihongodict (also an app. for iPhone and Android phones)

For kanji.

Jisho (I use this for spelling kanji for if I can’t read it)

Yamasa (I use this for learning to write)

A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters

Handwritten kanji search

Associative Kanji Learning (stroke orders)

WaniKani (reviewed and explained here)

Online reading:

Hukumusume Fairytales

竹取（Bamboo-Cutting） (vertical writing)

吉田秀幸の日記（Hideyuki Yoshida’s Diary） (recipes)

Chokochoko’s reading texts to help with JLPT

TED Talks (with Japanese subtitles and transcripts)

Learning through Films [Japanese subtitles/scripts]

Blue Sky Library (public domain books, explained here)

Manga.

Free online manga

Vomic (free online manga with voice actors)

Sound Effects (in manga, etc)

Improving your speaking:

Japanese pronunciation guide

Interactive Hiragana Pronounciation table

Topics for Language Exchanges.

Bubbly (a Twitter-like app where you can record yourself)

Audioboo (similar to Bubbly, but also a website)

My Language Exchange [to find a language partner]

Listening:

“Real World” Japanese

泣きたいときのクスリ 2007 - ‘08 (radio drama)

Writing practice:

Lang-8

Japan-Guide [for getting Japanese penpals]

原稿用紙の使い方 (How to write an essay with Japanese writing paper)

Shiritori (Japanese word-chain game)

iTalki [similar to Lang-8]

手書きブログ (Blogging by hand)

News:

NewsWeb Easy

NHK News (audio news with speed controls)

Mainichi Primary School student Newspaper

Podcasts:

JOQR (Cultural Broadcasting)

TBS Radio’s Junk

TOKYO FM

YouTube:

Afternoon Hirusagari

Jet Daisuke

バイリンガール英会話

Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)

Real Japanese Studio

Japancast

Tofugu

Japanese sign language.

Heartful Power Hideo

Shuwa Island

TV:

Japanese subtitles for anime

KeyHole TV (to stream Japanese TV and radio)

風雲LIVE日本語（Feng Yun LIVE Japanese） (to stream TV)

映画で学ぶ実践英会話

Tumblr:

Kanji-a-Day

Holy crap Japanese

Nihongo ga Suki

Jumpstart Japanese

Nihongolog

Japanese Idioms

Nadine Nihongo

That Japan Addict

ChilliMuffin

A Little Help with Japanese

Japanese through Fandom

F-Yeah Native Japanese

J-Vocab of the Day

一文ずつ

Nihongobook

PuniPuni Japan

ぶらりめし [Japanese only]

Peaceful Chef [Japanese only]

Kumako365jp

Japanese Revision (my blog for intermediates)

Those studying in Japan.

Japanicking in Yamanashi (at Yamanashi University)

Samxuel (at Kyushu Sangyo)

Katy in Japan Town (at NUFS)

Chocotastie (at Seinan Gakuin)

Kim in Sapporo (at Hokkaido University)

Sunriseosunset / My Japan Travels (Yokohama National University)

Blogging:

Yaplog

Ameba

Learning websites:

JapaneseClass.jp

The Japanese Page

Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese

Erin’s Challenge (with listening and reading practice)

Maggie Sensei

Tofugu

All Japanese All The Time

Japanese Level Up

Other resources:

Lots of threads with a variety of resources for Japanese learning

JLPT Resources

Anki (flashcards for your computer, phone and online) →Yomichan (plug-in for Anki)

Quizlet (flashcards)

DJT and Okra’s pastebins (lots of resources and textbooks for download, etc)

Japanese.Livejournal (including tips on using IME)

Human Japanese (for PC and phones, excl. Linux)

I’ve added even more to the list since I first posted this and am continuing to add new things to it. So, I thought I’d re-post it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!

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HIATUS

While we work to develop the best content possible, our posting will be on hiatus as we work to host, migrate and utilize the website. In the meanwhile, follow us here on tumblr for our most up-to-date status and sneak peeks.

Something we're excited about:

Exploring and Reviewing the remake of Sailor Moon.

Website Hint: Can anyone say API?

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Official Website Courtesy of FJWH Founder

Announcement:

We're excited to tell you that we will have an official website coming in the following months. As we build content, we hope you stick around to see the unveiling!

It was a feat for the founder of FJWH, Crystal, who conceived the concept of FJWH in 2011 - to design an integrated website as she had been out of the practice for almost a decade. Never fear, she is updating her coding skills as you read this! By bringing the audience an official, central, website she hopes to unit all sources and achieve FJWH's main concept at last.

Please bare in mind that although we are not a company or official organization, it is our aim to spread knowledge and love of Japan. In the following months we will be working on our concept and branding. Therefore, there may be some absences and glitches along the way.

We thank you for your time and loyalty,

FJWH Team.

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Re-design

Hi guys,

Crystal here - to let you know we're going through a bit of a re-design. This means better, higher quality stuff for you guys to sink your teeth into!

Right now, it hard for some of us to post due to outside forces in our lives but I promise we'll be up and running within the next week or two without a hitch with the new concept and design.

I wish to sincerely thank you for all the time you've given us and hope to see you in the near future.

-Crystal. -FJWH

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Quick Fact.

Genmaicha (玄米茶) is a combination of green tea and roasted brown rice.

This tea was originally drank by the poor as a cheaper alternative due the rice acting as a filler. However it is now consumed by all levels of society.

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Quick Fact.

Sakura-jima(桜島) is a volcano in Southern Japan, near the city of Kagoshima. Sunday, August 18th, 2013 marked its 500th eruption this year alone.

You can find more information HERE.

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Hey everyone this is the second episode of Saturdays with Bacon, so enjoy. 

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Quick Fact.

Hiroshima, was not the only city that fell to an atomic bomb in 1945.

Little Boy(code name) was dropped over the city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. It's destruction was credited to being detonated over the city instead of once it touched the ground, which allowed it to have a wider and unobscured reach. Hiroshima is considered to have seen more destruction due to its relatively flat layout.

On August 9th, 1945, the second atomic bomb was detonated over Japan. Fat Man(code name) was originally designated for the city of Kokura. The target was changed after cloud cover obscured the city from view and the city of Nagasaki was chosen for the next target. The bomb missed its target by nearly two miles due to poor visibility created by cloud cover. While the bomb was considerably stronger than Little Boy, Nagasaki's terrain helped prevent further damage.

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At FJWH we are aware that students all over the world are being deprived of historical and scientific information that could lead humanity to a safer future. Many younger people are unaware of the tragedy that war and nuclear power have caused.

We encourage you to read up on Little Boy, Fat Man; as well as the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear power plants and the devastation caused by such events as they can be avoided with proper action in the future.

Thank you,

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First installment of Saturdays with Bacon. Enjoy!

Japanese Commercials.

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Announcement of a new series.

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You guys told us to ask about entertainment and I know you guys may not know, but are there any good Japanese dramas I can practice my listening skills with? I also want to try a Taiwanese drama but I don't know if they are any good or not as it's technically part of China and all I've seen is like dynasty looking stuff from them. I prefer modern comedy, romance can be optional. Thnx :)

Well for J-dramas there’s so many, I would recommend:

Nobuta wo Produce

Hana Kimi

Hana Yori Dango

Love Shuffle

Koukou debut (is a movie)

As for the T-dramas, just for fun I guess because it’s not gonna help you with Japanese (obviously because they speak mandarin). There’s:

Love around, (I just started it’s really good)

Fabulous boys

Devil beside you

MARS.  

I haven’t finished a lot of T-dramas.

-Tanya

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FJWH

I hope you all are patient with us, I noticed that our personal blogs have more followers than the main page(this one)...I guess we don't share much here but I hope to soon be posting more here!

I'd like to note that any information shared about Japan is from an out-side view, I would share from an in-side view but as all countries, they tend to hide the past and create tales that cannot be fully verified. Either way we do our best to share interesting topics and events that people maybe not know about.

We would like to know if anyone has any requests on the material we will be submitting this next week. If not it will be random from a lottery. We will be creating a video for the posts as well that you can view at your convenience on our youtube channel.

You can request about Culture, History, Entertainment, ect. We will do our best to fill you in on the topic!

Once again, Thank you for following FromJapanWithHeart.

We hope you look forward to the coming months with us,

Crystal.