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Free Online Bidirectional English-Japanese Dictionary
http://dict.pspinc.com/
"To use the dictionary, simply type in the word you would like to find in the box below and press the Search button. To find a Japanese definition of an English word, type in the English word. To look up a Japanese word, you must type in kana or kanji to find the definition. You can also use wildcards ( * ) in your search."
Japanese-English Dictionary Portal
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/libsites/japan/index.html
"The Japanese-English Dictionary Portal provides easy look-ups of entries in Jim Breen's Japanese-English dictionary, WWWJDIC. By highlighting characters, words, or phrases on a Web page in Kanji/Kana, Romaji, or English, and then clicking on the JEDP menu, you can automatically find those characters or words in the dictionary. From this departure point you can enter the University of Virginia's Japanese Text Initiative resources or begin to browse any Japanese language web document or website."
Jeffrey's Japanese - English Dictionary Server
http://linear.mv.com/cgi-bin/j-e/dict
"This server provides simple access to the English/Japanese Japanese/English dictionary edict (and several other related dictionaries). Searches can be either based upon English, romaji, or raw Japanese. Searches result in the listing of pairs of related Japanese and English. There is also a kanji database server as well, which gives access to kanjidic. "
Public English-Japanese Dictionary
http://www.ss.ics.tut.ac.jp/pubdict/pubdict.html
An English-Japanese dictionary designed for English speakers. "When we seek a Japanese word, we refer English-Japanese dictionary and then Japanese-English dictionary to confirm its meaning."
WWWJDIC: Word Search
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?1C
This site translates words from English and French into Japanese (and vice versa). Users can also see if their keyword exists in Romanized Japanese. Search options include: restrict to common words, require exact word match, limit matching to the start of words, and users also have several different dictionary files to choose from.

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