- A Reading Primer on Education in Japan (Online articles & Booklist)
- Academic societies related to Education in Japan
- Ace your Japanese proficiency test with the best free Web tools
- AllKindsofMinds.org resource for parents
- All things ALT – resources by ALTs for ALTs
- Aviva Kids – Afterschool courses for acquiring PC ICT skills (elementary through high school)
- Beyond phonics: reviewing the readers and reading programs
- Board games and online games for a typhoon day
- Brain science research and resources
- Buyo dancing for kids
- Choosing phonics instruction programs
- Comprehensive poster of 1,926 kanji
- Cooking classes for kids
- Coursera — free online courses from top colleges
- Disaster preparation: Q&As
- DIY Flashcard resources
- Domestic help, au pairs, babysitting services
- Down Syndrome children – resources in Japan
- Dual N-Back Brain Games: what if a simple exercise could really improve your intelligence
- Dumbbell maths
- Dyslexia: Internet resources and the research
- Dyslexia Research Association in Japan and Kato Clinic
- E Co Labs (Shogakukan Academy)
- Educational resources offered Gifu Prefecture (Information from the Gifu International Center)
- EIKEN – what is it and what is it for; vocabulary lists and other EIKEN resources
- ESL resource: Time4learning program
- Earthquakes and Japan (Part I)
- Eaton Academy K – 12 Virtual Academy program
- Famous brain techniques for learning and memory work
- Favourite math resources
- Flashcard Bank (and worksheets too!)
- Free Online Olympics Grammar Bingo Game
- Free MEXT textbooks from Japan Overseas Educational Services
- Free online Earth Science resource: Earth Science 3D Paper Models and Toys
- Free Online Education
- Free schools
- Gardening resources
- Geography resources on Japan
- Geological periods to be revised / The Science of survival
- Hands on science
- High Tech Vocabulary Resource
- Hippo Campus: Open course content and math resource
- Hippo Homestays and other homestay programs
- Hiroshima and the Atomic Bomb — A Study Resource
- HIV/Aids education – teaching program of ethics for high school
- Home-educated in Japan but headed for schools and universities in the UK?
- Homeschooling Subject by Subject
- How money and banking works — a resource
- If you were a homeschooler stranded on a desert island …
- Inside the teacher’s bag of “trick-or-tips”
- International Academic Consultants
- Japan Dyslexia Association | Kato Clinic
- Japan Fitness Vacations
- Japanese History reference: 歴史資料 (中学校スタンダード) 帝国書院 Rekkishi Shiryou (Middle School Standard)
- Japanese myths, folklore & legends online
- K & Y Cools Storytelling Sessions
- K12 International Academy (see also their K-8 programs)
- Khan Academy Online tutorials
- Kindermuzik classes
- Kool karuta for kooler days ahead!
- Kotowaza | Japanese Sayings and Proverbs (A collection of resource links)
- Koyo-viewing with kids (fall foliage activities)
- Leapfrog Fridge Phonics
- Learning games for ESL students
- Learning Intervention Center NPO Skill Camp
- Learning how to type – Japanese Touch Type Tutor
- LessonCorner
- Lingo Stars Saturday School and afterschool programs
- List of 1,000 Proverbs (external link)
- Literacy & Language Building Resources
- Literature classics and selections – free downloads
- Manga – an educational tool?
- MasterMath.info: New Middle School Math Resource and Tutoring
- Math Printables | see also Reflex Math program
- Maya Civilization – resource collection of online links
- MENSA – what is it, and where can I find MENSA resources?
- Middle School Science resources
- Minstrelstories.com (external link) Free downloadable stories and novels for children
- Miki House infant educational programs and baby or childcare
- Miscellaneous links on education (worldwide)
- Montessori Resources
- More literacy resources: Writing, spelling and grammar
- Music resources
- Nature notebooking
- Nature, outdoor, wilderness and “mountain village education” programs in Japan
- Newton, Graphic Science Magazine
- Night School | Yakan Gakko
- Off the assembly line … finally! the unobtrusive and affordable Pocket Geiger counter
- Online articles / Contents & Standards / Science curriculum / Resources for specialized high school topics / Science experiments & supplies
- Online typing lessons: Online Free Touch Typing Tutorials
- Open Court reading curriculum & resources
- Outdoor Club Japan
- Outward Bound Japan
- Parents’ favourite links
- Personal Information and Protection Law and the posting of videos of schoolchildren online
- Picture cards tell survivors’ stories of Nagasaki bombing (available from the Nagasaki Peace Sphere)
- Planet Eigo: new resource for team teaching
- Playgroups: Dinosaur Islands & STEF(Stand together English fellowship) playgroups (Yokohama)
- Product Ping: Super-Illustrated Kanji Learning Aid
- Rap your way through your multiplication tables
- Reading resource: Learn to read free and Montessori Big Fun Reading Room online reading programs
- Reading & literacy resource: Time4learning program
- Reading & literacy resource: Starfall.com
- Reading Right Primary Core Curriculum; Reading Right Intervention Program
- Reasons to memorize the Hyakunin issu
- Reflex Math program
- Resources for encouraging little readers
- Resources for making math meaningful
- Resources for making school items eg tesagibukuro (bookbags) / shoebags
- Resources for the Spelling Bee
- Resources on the art of note-taking in Japanese education
- Re-use old Duplo or Lego blocks as reading or spelling activity aids
- Revision of geological period / Christmas Lectures for children
- SAT game for dummies
- Scaled down mini laptops for school kids
- School’s Out: What can we do?
- Schools that run Japanese language classes or programs in the U.S.A.
- Science cafes
- Shakespeare – Learning Resources
- Sharing our Strategies for Learning Kanji and Kokugo
- Singapore Math
- “Snow country” – Echigo Yuzawa or Yuzawa (Niigata)
- Society for Promoting Intercultural Education for Children (SPIEC)
- Sokunou Speed Reading program
- Special needs education or resources for parenting kids with learning differences
- Stairways to Reading program
- Stone Museum Hakuseikikan, Gifu prefecture (the Milky Way and mineral stone museum)
- Summer schools/camps abroad
- Summer schools or camps in Japan (English language)
- Sussing out information for a sociology degree course?
- Takeshima – Q&A by the Yomiuri Shimbun for kids
- Testing matters
- The age of Mammals in Japan: After the dinosaurs came the Desmostylians
- The arts and crafts scene for kids
- The Proofs of Pythagoras
- Tokyo Racecourse’s Riding Center, Parade Ring & Pakapaka Cafe
- Tokyo Teaching Training Academy – opened by Language Training Professionals
- The Alpine experience: Echigo Yuzawa
- The Cee Bee Center (Fukuoka)-A bilingual English and Japanese education and therapy center for children and adults with development disorders and learning difficulties
- The juku system: the other face of Japan’s education system
- The new Spalding Reading Method materials
- The quest for literacy (part one)
- The quest for literacy (part two)
- The Starfall Kindergarten Reading & Language Arts Program
- Theme units for the winter holiday season
- Tips and websites for more effective students
- Tips of how to devise un-hackable passwords and secure your PCs and email accounts
- TOEFL Booster: Divining the details in TOEFL reading questions
- TOEFL Booster: Support or challenge? Write it out
- TOEFL (R) Pronouns point the way in TOEFL reading
- TOEFL test taking tips
- Tom Snyder’s Educational Software
- Top 10 last-minute exam revision tips
- Tutoring resources
- Two new skateparks (opened in 2011) added to Skateboarding resources and Skatepark listings
- Understanding 9/11: a News Archive (external link)
- Updates: Educational courses & institutions
- Useful post-Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake resources, and links to know
- UTREK ski camp/KODOMO ALPS camp /Fractured fairytales winter-wonderland-camp
- Vocabulary lists for English learners and other STEP EIKEN resources
- WWII news resource: Agent Orange used on Okinawa
- What do you do during an earthquake
- Where to catch Shakespeare and other theatre performances in. Japan
- Where to find camping information
- Where to go for ice and snow activities in Japan | The Alpine experience: Echigo Yuzawa
- Where to go for winter ski resorts with young kids near Tokyo? | “Snow country” – Echigo Yuzawa or Yuzawa (Niigata)
- Which handwriting script to teach your child? | Teaching Children to Read & Write in More Than One Orthography (external link)
- Writing resource: Figment.com
- Yakan Gakko | Night School
- Youtube Space Lab
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External resources:
- British Literature: Traditions and Change – an anthology of British literature masterworks
- Classical Japanese Poetry translations (Blogsite)
- Guide to Bibliographical Resources for Modern Japanese Literature
by Christopher Hill - JumpStart Preschool Games and JumpStart Online Kids Games
- Nursery Rhymes Online
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