Reviews

    There are a lot of Japan and Japanese-related products out there that want your money. Spending money is one thing, but what about your time? Will using this product actually improve your Japanese? If you want to know which resources are worth your time, we've done the work for you. And if you're curious about candy subscription boxes, pocket translators, or old-man-rental services, we've reviewed those too.

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    1. A Review of Bunpro A Valuable Companion App for Grammar Studies and More

      | Ian J. Battaglia

    2. A Review of Anki A Spaced-Repetition System That Grows With You

      | Ian J. Battaglia

    3. A Review of JapanesePod101.com Is It Really an Audio Textbook You Can Take On the Go?

      | Ian J. Battaglia

    4. A Review of the Japanese Phonetics Course by Dōgen Take a Deep-Dive Into Phonetics for a Massive Pay-Off in Your Spoken Japanese

      | Ian J. Battaglia

    5. Review: Japanese Stories for Language Learners — Bilingual Stories in English and Japanese Traditional Folktales and Modern Literary Staples with Beautiful Translations and Useful Features for Japanese Learners

      | David Honeycutt and Kanae Nakamine

    6. A Review of Yotsuba&! What Makes the Undeniably Popular Slice-of-Life Manga よつばと So Special?

      | Ian J. Battaglia

    7. A Review of the HelloTalk App A Language and Cultural Exchange Social Network Like No Other

      | Ian J. Battaglia

    8. A まるごと Review of the "Marugoto" Textbook Series How Marugoto Was A Godsend To My Japanese Class

      | David Honeycutt

    9. Todai Easy Japanese News App A Great First-Foray Into Regular Japanese Language Content

      | Ian J. Battaglia

    10. A Review of "Quartet: Intermediate Japanese Across the Four Language Skills vol. 1" Is Quartet the Best Next Stop After Genki?

      | Ian J. Battaglia

    11. A Review of "Polar Bear Café" Is "Shirokuma Café" Really The Perfect Book For Beginners?

      | Kanae Nakamine

    12. Renting Middle-Aged Japanese Men for Fun: A Review of Ossan Rental Seriously, these are some quality ossan

      | Koichi

    13. ili Handheld Translator Device: Our Hands-On, In-Japan Review Translate Japanese, no Internet required

      | Jamal Lee

    14. Pocketalk Handheld Translator Device: Reviewing it, and Using it in Japan Japanese translation in the palm of your hand

      | Darin Richardson

    15. Satori Reader Level-Appropriate Japanese Reading and Listening Practice

      | Kristen Dexter

    16. Umai Crate: The Definitive Seven-Month Long Review Does MSG make your mouth moist? If so, we have the subscription box for you.

      | Michael Richey

    17. Your Name – The Highest Grossing Anime Film Ever Is Director Makoto Shinkai the next Miyazaki?

      | Tom Pinchuk

    18. Womansword What Japanese Words Say About Women

      | Kristen Dexter

    19. Are You An Echo? The Lost Poems of Misuzu Kaneko

      | Michael Richey

    20. Tonoharu Part Three After Six Years, the Trilogy is Complete

      | Carla Sinclair

    21. The Six Month Long Doki Doki Crate Review So...many...cute items. Can't...look away!

      | Michael Richey

    22. Japan Crate: The Definitive Six-Month Long Review We ate 10.59 lbs and $180 worth of Japanese candy so you don't have to

      | Michael Richey

    23. Japanese Tattoos | History • Culture • Design by Brian Ashcraft and Hori Benny

      | Michael Richey

    24. Put on your Suit and Tie, it's Time to Go to Ice Cream Work An tasty art/story book by Japanese artist Naoshi

      | Michael Richey

    25. The Definitive Genki Textbook Review The quintessential review for the quintessential Japanese textbook

      | Michael Richey

    26. A Geek In Japan One man's crash course in everything Japanese

      | Linda Lombardi

    27. Short Stories In Japanese A New Penguin Parallel Text

      | Kristen Dexter

    28. A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese A Comprehensive Guide to the Japanese Writing System

      | Kristen Dexter

    29. The Kodansha Kanji Usage Guide An A to Z of Kun Homophones

      | Kristen Dexter

    30. An Illustrated Dictionary of Japanese Onomatopoeic Expressions A picture is worth a thousand words - and you get both!

      | Verity Lane

    31. Warau Eikaiwa Studying Japanese? Have to laugh so you don't cry.

      | Rich

    32. Japanese The Game: The Japanese Learning Card Game Japanese learning for Yu-Gi-Oh! fans. But is it worth $100K?

      | Michael Richey

    33. Exploring Japanese Literature Read Mishima, Tanizaki, and Kawabata

      | Kristen Dexter

    34. How to Sound Intelligent in Japanese A Vocabulary Builder

      | Kristen Dexter

    35. Reading Japanese with a Smile Nine Stories from a Japanese Weekly Magazine for Intermediate Learners

      | Kristen Dexter

    36. Jazz Up Your Japanese with Onomatopoeia Beep boop pow meow bop shhhhuuuuupah

      | Kristen Dexter

    37. Nihongo Sō-Matome JLPT Study Guide Series

      | Rich

    38. Breaking into Japanese Literature Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text

      | Kristen Dexter

    39. Japanese from Zero! 1: Progressive Edition The perfect Japanese textbook for young learners.

      | Michael Richey

    40. Kodansha International's Bilingual Books Series Practice your Japanese and become a better translator

      | Kristen Dexter

    41. Read Real Japanese: Essays and Fiction Essays and Short Stories by Contemporary Writers

      | Kristen Dexter

    42. Making Sense of Japanese What the Textbooks Don't Tell You

      | Kristen Dexter