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JBrowse 1

If you want to read Japanese web pages, but your Japanese isn't perfect, you might be interested in jBrowse. It's a plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer that adds furigana and word definitions to Japanese web pages. It's also a Japanese dictionary and kanji tool. It's also free, unless you pay out of charity. jBrowse can do four things: 1) Inject Definitions into a page in your browser 2) Add Furigana (explanatory kana) into a document that has hard kanji 3) Lookup Words -- it's also a decent two-way dictionary 4) Find Kanji by radical, stroke count, pronunciation, meaning, jouyou level, JIS number...

This software is a commercial software. You will be able to download and test JBrowse during a certain period of time, then, if it does what you need, you will have to acquire the full version. The trial version available for download on www.softandco.com has a size of 2700 KBytes. For additional information and support request, please contact directly JBrowse publisher.
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JBrowse 1 was released by jBrowse Inc on Tuesday 30 July 2002. Its known requirements are : Windows NT/2000/XP, Internet Explorer 5.5 or above, Japanese font.

JBrowse will run on Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows XP.

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