Tools

Disclaimer: I do not condone the use of any pirated materials.


Here are the main tools I use to study Japanese
http://www.anilinkz.com/ (free streaming anime)
http://ichi2.net/anki/ (flash card program)
http://jisho.org/ (kanji dictionary with radical lookup)
http://www.yamasa.cc/members/ocjs/kanjidic.nsf/MainPage (great dictionary site, you can also look up compound kanji that you find using jisho.org)
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/ (this is by far my favorite Japanese learning blog, it's very good for inspiration too)
http://www.nicovideo.jp/ (pretty much the equivalent to Youtube but for Japan)
http://www.ijapan.org/blue/ (Japanese proxy site)
http://www.youtube.com/user/resilientreyn#p/u/28/wdhIIPcxlso (all the episodes of "lets learn Japanese", a great study tool from the 80's)
www.veoh.com (great for unsubbed anime)

I also recommend getting pimsluer Japanese. It's expensive to buy but...