Japan and Japanese

These pages contain some Japan-related information. Apart from a few bits and pieces about general things (this is really not much, you may find some helpful hints if you plan to move to Japan), the main contents concern

• Japanese Fonts and (CJK-)LaTeX
• Kangoroo, a Japanese dictionary software (available for English and German+English) with the feature of "jumping" from Kanji to Kanji

• If you love outdoor activities: All Japanese topographical maps are freely available!
• Road maps
• Babelfish's online translation Japanese-English is okay. However, this one is much better.
• Japanese weather forecast (and here is a good local one for Hokkaido)