Links

#1 Website pick

ProjectJapan.org:

Lots of good information on Japan and a great place to learn about ministry to in a Japanese cultural context.

Bible Colleges

Christian Bible Institute:  Located in Nagoya.

Tokyo Christian University:  Located in Tokyo.

Ministries

Family Forum Japan:  An outreach to youth and families via issues that people face.

CAN: Christian in the arts network.

Japan Alive: A ministry with an unbiased approach seeks to provide sex education, alternatives to abortion, and post abortion counseling, click here for English.

JCFN: Japanese Christian Fellowship Newtwork

JEMA: Japan Evangelical Missions Association

JEMS: Japanese Evangelical Missions Society

Let’s Love Japan:  Proclaiming the Good News to Japanese through Entertainment.

LOJEA: A clothing brand that desires to sow sees of the gospel with fashion throughout Japan and the world.

OMF Japan:  Overseas Missionary Fellowship.

Reaching Japan for Christ Network:  Networking people who are reaching out to Japanese. Informing, connecting, encouraging and providing resources for the ministry.

Student Impact:  Japan Campus Crusade for Christ.

Ministry Resources

Christian Answers: A Japanese version of a English web ministry with a lot of apologetics information.

Biblica:  Japanese Living bible online in pdf format.

Gospel Light Store: A place to Christian books, music, and various items

Japan Bible Society: For English click here.

Japanese Sign Language Bible:  For YouTube videos click here.

Jinseio Kaeru Hiketsu: Power to Change in Japanese, for English click here.

Joshua Project:  A research initiative seeking to highlight the ethnic people groups of the world with the least followers of Jesus Christ.

NEXT Manga:  The bible in manga formate, really cool!

Student in Japan:  Great for Japanese students wanting to lean about Jesus.

Who is Jesus?: A lot of good information about Jesus provided in Japanese and English.

Culture

Discover Japan: A great site to learn about specific topics in Japanese culture.

I Speak Japanese:  Learn Japanese language and culture online.

Japan Bump: The best Japanese news, videos and pictures on the web as dictated by the JapanBump community.

Tofugu:  Wonky Japanese language and culture blog.

YouTube – Journeyman Pictures: Many documentaries on Japan, type “Japan in the search box

YouTube – HIROKOCHANNEL’s Channel:  Teach Japanese, English and Japanese Culture on video.

YouTube – Tokyocooney’s Channel:  Life in Tokyo.

What Japan Thinks:  From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys.

Language Tools

Denshi Jisho:  Online Japanese dictionary, has a very helpful kanji search by radical.

Furiganizer:  Adds furigana to Japanese text.

Yamasa:  Online kanji dictionary, shows stroke order for each kanji.

Japan news

CNNGO Tokyo:  The best recommendations on where to sleep, eat, drink, shop & play in Tokyo.

ikjeld.com:  News and photos of Japan, dive deeper into Japan with Japan Correspondent Kjeld Duits.

Japan Today:  Japan breaking news.

NewsManga: Read the news in manga formate, pretty cool!

News On Japan:  Brings together news on Japan from many different sources.

NHK World:  Japan’s national public broadcasting organization.

Resources for foreigners (like me :) )

Berlitz: A company in Japan that provides English teaching jobs, for English click here.

Flutter Scape: For those outside Japan this is a good place to buy Japanese products

Gaijin Pot:  Classifieds foreigners living in Japan.

Jorudan Train Route Finder: A train route finder in English

Sakura House: Tokyo apartment & guest house agency

Tenso: This website helps you purchase products from Japanese shopping website which does not support international shipment.

The Flying Pig:  Not everyone can get to a Costco warehouse very easily, and Internet ordering isn’t available. This site was launched to overcome these issues.