Joyo 96 - Free online resources, advice, and links to recommended books and other study aids. Also features a Japanophiles email list. - http://www.joyo96.org/
Web Japanese - Today's Kanji, daily and monthly columns for students of the Japanese language. - http://webjapanese.com/
Real Kana - A simple site for learning and practicing hiragana and katakana, the two Japanese syllabaries. - http://www.realkana.com/
The Japanese WebLab - Extensive links to several sites teaching Japanese. - http://pweb.sophia.ac.jp/~britto/weblab-j.html
Japanese Tutorials at Knowledge Hound - Links to free online Japanese lessons, including basic Japanese for travelers, conversational Japanese and reading & writing Hiragana, Katagana & Kanji. - http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/japanese.htm
Japanese Language - Exercises, tips and lessons to help you learn to speak and write Japanese. Practice phonetics, calligraphy and grammar, and download dictionaries. From About.com. - http://japanese.about.com/index.htm
Introductory Japanese - Supplimentary Website for the 1st year Japanese Textbook "Nakama". The site is designed to help students who are using this textbook to review words and expressions in each chapter. - http://students.washington.edu/koji/JAPAN134/Japan134.htm
Griffith University: Basic Japanese Resources - Features an introduction to 400 basic kanji and basic grammar information. - http://www.gu.edu.au/school/lal/japanesemain/JP_Res/JP_Res_home.html
Elementary Japanese Language Course - Nihongo Shoho - Full course (34 lessons) based on the book Nihongo Shoho, with audio mp3 files, vocabulary trainer, word and kanji index, kanji practice worksheet and description page for every kanji, online translation tool and Japanese text processing tool. No Japanese - http://i33www.ira.uka.de/~bgarz/nihongoshoho/
Charles Kelly's Web-based Japanese Language Study Materials - Free online quizzes, flashcards and word lists. Covers romaji, hiragana, katakana, kanji, Japanese newspaper words, reading signs and more. - http://www.manythings.org/japanese/
Mainichi-Kanji - Introduces a new kanji on each weekday, with readings, meanings and examples. On weekends the week's kanji are reviewed. The site can be viewed on any computer, no Japanese fonts are required. - http://mainichi.incors.com/
CosCom Japanese Language School - Offers introductory study materials including audio files and grammar lessons. Also has books, e-books, and picture cards for sale. - http://www.coscom.co.jp/
Learn Japanese Online - Imaginative introduction to basic Japanese, with fun flash quizes and beginner-friendly content. Kana and word knowledge testing for intermediates. - http://www.easyjapanese.org/index.html
Pera Pera Penguin's 5-minute Japanese Class - Offers short conversational Japanese lessons from a 15 year teacher of the language. - http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/columns/0002/
Japan-Studies.com - One of the better sites offering free Japanese lessons for beginners, with the added advantage of a forum for posting questions. - http://japan-studies.com/language/
Kanji Clinic - A column appearing every third Friday in The Japan Times aiming at providing practical advice to non-Japanese adults striving to become literate in Japanese by learning the 1,945 general-use kanji. It is written by Mary Sisk Noguchi, associate professor a - http://www.kanjiclinic.com/
Rikai - Type the web address of a Japanese site into this site and it will display the page and, as you move your mouse over it, it will show the Japanese pronunciation and English meaning of each word. - http://www.rikai.com/
AJALT - Association for Japanese Language Teaching. Offers private, group, and online lessons. - http://www.ajalt.org/e/index_e.htm
Reiko-chan's Japanese for Anime-Lovers - Web based lessons on Japanese, with links to lessons on the writing systems. - http://physics.uwyo.edu/~brent/jal/jal-home.htm
Japanese Language Learning for Mobile Phones - Japanese-language learning for small screen devices, as well as computers. Also enables students to create their own lists of kanji and vocabulary for study via a database. - http://ii-kanji.com
Nihongo o Narau - Learn Japanese - A free, easy way to learn Japanese online. Covers sentence structure and has lots of vocabulary. - http://www.learn-japanese.info/
Learning Japanese - Provide you Japanese courses from primary to advances level. It also includes Japanese passages, readings, stories and songs. (Uses non-standard romanized spelling). - http://www.powerweb.com.hk/lj/JIndex.html
Learn How to Wow in Japanese! - Learn interesting Japanese while having fun. Grammar, kanji, culture and a little bit of everything Japanese for free. - http://www.thejapanesepage.com/
The Kanji SITE - A detailed guide to hundreds of kanji, with step-by-step guides, random testing, a search function and other features. Especially useful for studying kanji for the JLPT. Works even for non-Japanese-capable machines. - http://www.kanjisite.com/