Japanese Dev Tools

The engine that drives most of the Japanese parsing on NihongoDera. Breaks up Japanese text into individual words, finds their dictionary forms, and creates romaji, kana, and furigana.

A great library for working with Japanese in PHP. Converts kana to romaji, breaks apart Japanese text into words, converts between Japanese and Western dates, and finds verb inflections.

MeCab bindings for PHP built as a PHP extension. Blazing fast and used here on the site. Limelight, listed above, is essentially a wrapper around php-mecab.

Japanese language parser. Splits text into individual words and converts them to romaji and kana. Also has a Javascript interface. Works for English too.

A small Javascript module for animating kanji drawing using data from the KanjiVG (listed below).

A MySQL storage engine that fully supports Japanese. Allows for Japanese fulltext searches.

A Japanese morphological analysis engine. Analyses text and outputs individual morphemes, their readings, pronunciations, and lemmas.

A library of svg files that describe kanji. Each file contains info about a kanji's radicals and stroke order.