Links To Other Japanese Language Learning Resources

MIT Japanese Program Study Materials (for Japanese I) is useful. The hiragana section has some movies showing good style for writing the hiragana. Some larger items may take a while to download if your connection to the MIT servers is too indirect.
The Japanese Writing Tutor site helps you learn how to write Japanese characters more gracefully.
Instructions for viewing and inputting Japanese-language writing on most American versions of Windows are near the bottom of Gon Suzuki's web page "Nihongo-OK".
Learn the Japanese kana characters by playing a game. Yes, we really want you to learn about BitBoost's educational game, TileTag for Kana. Free trial version includes 20 hiragana and 20 katakana characters!
Expand TileTag to help you learn any subject matter--kanji, vocabulary, etc., with TileSet Creator.
Dictionary links for students of Japanese! Sites linked to include online free dictionaries, downloadable free dictionaries, and even browser add-ins. Much open source goodness included.