Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a great way of tracking down cached copies of websites but it is also host to a plethora of sound files, including a whole lot of Japanese recordings. My first search in the Audio section using the term "Japanese" threw up a copy of Emperor Hirohito's surrender speech from 1945, Tae Kim's podcast lessons, parliamentary discussion proposals regarding the constitution and some pop songs. The second page of results included Akutagawa Ryunosuke's "Kappa", the NHK children's story Gurasuhoppaa Monogatari and a Japanese version of Barbie Girl. Some of the file descriptions came up as mojibake (文字化け: those collections of symbols associated with cartoon characters cursing or encoding settings failing) and there was also a lot of irrelevant crap thrown up by the search but with 351 files in storage there are enough gems to make digging worthwhile.

Comments

[Csar]

http://www.mts.net/~bodnaryk/index.htm
I think you will find this mnemonic kanji book interesting.

[Alex]

Hey Will. I'm in the middle of my daily Harry Potter reading, and I came across a word that made me remember your comment on my blog a few weeks ago. You wrote:

"Here's one for you - you're driving along in Japan and someone in the car in front of you throws some trash onto the road. You want to convey the idea to the person sitting next to you that what the trash-thrower did was offensive/rude/an affront - what would you say in Japanese? (Hmm…this could make for a post on my own blog…)"

The word I came across was「けしからん」, meaning "outrageous, rude, inexcusable."

Using eijiro on alc.co.jp, it listed these examples:

けしからん！ "How disgraceful!"
実にけしからん "downright criminal"

I wonder if it would also work in the scenario you proposed.