Acknowledgements

We'd like to extend our sincere thanks to the amazing people who worked on the following projects, powering certain features of Kitsun.io or just being great projects in general.

Dictionaries

JMDICT - Japanese Dictionary used to power the reading tool - by Jim Breen/EDRDG - This file is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's licence.

KANJIDIC2 - Kanji Dictionary used to power the reading tool - by Jim Breen/EDRDG - This file is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's licence.

Jisho.org - Fantastic Online Japanese dictionary. Kitsun uses their API to power the Japanese section of the Dictionary tool - by Kim Ahlström, Miwa Ahlström and Andrew Plummer

Tools

Ve - A linguistic framework that helps parse Japanese sentences - by Kim Ahlström

Mecab - A parsing tool for the Japanese language - by Taku Kudo, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Wanakana - Tool which automatically converts romaji to their corresponding hiragana or katakana counterparts

Our Friends

Wanikani - Amazing website to learn Kanji with. One of the main inspirations for Kitsun.io - by Tofugu

Tofugu - The blog for everything Japan related.