From: Philip Mak <pmak@...>
Date: 2002-06-13T00:14:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Japanese to Japanese translator?

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:16:08PM +0900, Dossy wrote:
> I can kinda muddle along in romaji -- I can make out two, maybe
> three kanji -- so I was wondering:  I know that Babel Fish will
> translate (badly) from Japanese to English, but is there something
> out there that will translate from Japanese to Japanese,
> specifically from hiragana/katakana/kanji to romaji?

This might be what you are looking for:

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/breen/wwwjdic?9T

You can paste Japanese text or give a URL, and it will return a page
showing dictionary definitions for all the kanji. As a student of
Japanese, I've found it very useful for deciphering documents that are
otherwise above my reading level due to all the kanji.