A few notes on living in Japan
Food: It has become easier and easier to find International groceries in Japan
in the last 10 years or so. Still there are those things that just might not be
in your local town. In that case I really recommend to you a site that sells
stuff from Costco called the flying pig. You can check it out here.
Other tips:
• Don't eat Japanese peanut butter. It tastes a lot different.
• If you get bored of cooking try Thai food. A lot of the bases require
coconut milk and are really easy to make.
-- Really good Sweet potato Tofu dish
Language stuff (sites and programs to learn Japanese):
• Check out Rikai - it has kanji practice, flash cards, and much more...
• Mnemosyne: An advanced flash card program for Kanji/ Vocabulary
• Learn Japanese with plays with an Australian site
• Language learning level for kids or fun for beginners
• Quizzes for the Japanese proficiency test
• An SAT like test for Japanese speakers
• List of Japanese proverbs that are also in English
• Quiz your Kanji with flash cards
• More flash cards
Living in Japan:
• Interesting site about living in Japan (culture, food,
language etc)-- Through young eyes
• Another site for learning Japanese culture at a kids level