Electronic Japanese language resources.
Advice on electronic dictionaries, PC software, and the best electronic tool available: a PDA running electronic dictionary software. It beats even the best electronic dictionary hands down for power and utility, it's smaller and cheaper, and it's made for the non--native speaker using Japanese in daily life or learning it.
Advice for buying a used car in
Japan.
Japanese Train Schedules:
Most
complete, in Japanese (you can enter station names in roman letters in the top box; the rest is easy to figure out by trial and error even if you can only read a little Japanese).
Most
convenient, in English (figures all
connections and gives prices, but occasionally doesn't find a more
convenient connection, especially at odd hours, and also occasionally
gives wildly inflated prices).