This page contains a growing collection of photographs to be used for Japanese language instruction.

The photographs used for this project were all amateur snapshots taken by a digital camera. They should not be compared against professional photographs. However, they are free. When the use of WWW and digital cameras is quickly gaining its popularity, this kind of project is becoming increasingly easy.

Guideline for using the photographs:

You can freely use the photographs without any fee as long as they are used for non-profit educational purposes. (You can download them, copy them, clip a part of it, modify them, combine them, shrink them, enlarge them, print them large or small, etc.) When you use them, we ask you to acknowledge the source. It protects you from unnecessary complication.

This project follows the guidelines developed by CONJUGATE (Consortium for Japanese Language Materials Using Global Technologies). Its URL is http://www.intersc.tsukuba.ac.jp/conjugate.html.

Project personnel:

The project director is Kazumi Hatasa (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue University)

This project is supported by Center for Technology-enhanced Language Learning (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue University). A partial funding comes from the Dean of School of Liberal Arts, Purdue University. (Faculty incentive grant)

Contributors:

Kazumi Hatasa (Purdue University)

** This project is on-going. We are very much interested in linking this project to other collections. Also, if you are willing to share photographs that you have taken, we will be happy to incorporate them into our collection or to assist you create your own collection.

Photo Gallery for Japanese Language Instruction:

All of the photographs are stored in JPEG format. Once you find a photo you want, click the title. You should see the full-size image of the picture. Then, use "Copy this image" option in your browser to copy it to the software you are using such as a word processing program. You should be able to modify the size of the image within your software. If you want to modify a photo itself, you need a graphics editing program.

** Since each page contains a number of pictures, it might take a while to load images depending on your connection to the Internet. You can suppress the automatic loading of images in your browser setting.

• Commercial signs found in Tokyo's old neighborhood
• Public signs found in Tokyo's old neighborhood
• Additional photos with kana or kanji (3/26/2000)
• Additional photos without letter (3/26/2000)

This page is created by Kazumi Hatasa.

Last update: 3/26/00