Useful Links

Favorite Links and Online Resources

Sister Organizations of San Francisco Japanese-English Toastmasters

Toastmasters International is the site for the worldwide Toastmasters organization.

Silicon Valley Jets (svjets.org) is our sister Japanese-English Toastmasters (JETS) club in San Jose.

Nichibei Toastmasters is our sister JETS club in New York City..

Japan Toastmasters Council maintains a list of Toastmasters clubs in Japan.

Den-en Toshi Toastmasters Club has additional links to Toastmasters clubs in Japan.

Toastmasters District 4 has information on Toastmasters events in the region from Monterey
to S.F. The District 4 site also provides a listing of other Toastmaster Clubs in the Bay Area -
select a city of interest

Japan-Related Resources

Japan Society (Northern California Chapter) maintains a full list of Japan-related resources in the San
Francisco Area.

Keizai Society is a Bay Area US-Japan business forum.

Japanese in North America Online (jinaonline.com) is the largest online community for
Japanese speaking people in the US and the only to offer English-to-Japanese and
Japanese-to-English functions. The site includes up-to-date information on upcoming events,
activities, guides for shopping, dining, entertainment, language exchanges, job postings,
classifieds and much much more. Curious about the ingredients for your favorite Japanese
recipe, check out Kaori's Kitchen. If you'd like to know the current time in Japan, the site also
includes a digital clock telling Tokyo Time, California Time, New York Time and the
all-important Waikiki Time.

Latest Japanese News Stories News on Japan is a real-time feed of news stories on Japan
in several different categories including Business, Politics, Economics, Society, Sports,
Science & Technology and other categories.
The site also includes useful links on Movies, Music and Weather.

Other Helpful Resources

Jim Breen's Online Dictionary is amazing. You can cut and paste an entire paragraph of
Japanese text into this dictionary and a word-by-word translation will display (complete with
hiragana pronunciation of each character compound!) Check it out!