Four-character Japanese Phrases You Can Use

Welcome to Black Tokyo!
This in from Harvey at Japan Newbie:
Japanese are always impressed when a foreigner (or even another Japanese for that matter…) can work a four-character phrase into daily conversation.
Here are a few that I have run across while reading stuff that are good to know. Complete definitions and usages of these can [...]

Yes We Can w/Japanese Subtitles

For those interested in interpretation and translation, music, politics, or just something different!
Here are a couple of links on Obama fever in Obama, Japan and a news report in Japanese on Obama’s visit to Japan.
More along the Black Tokyo theme, here are video clips on Blacks living in Obama, Japan scouting for opinion on Barak [...]

Reading Japanese Websites via Rikai.com

 
Reading Japanese websites is a good way to improve your Japanese. A very good dictionary/translation tool is Rikai.com. This site is a fantastic tool for many people learning Kanji but haven’t quite got it down yet. Just type in the website URL you want translated and have the kanji translated for you in English and [...]