Welcome to Jappleng!

You may be asking yourself, who or what is Jappleng and what is its purpose? What is this wiki, clubs and so on..? This is the place to start!

Our Mission What we do

We want to provide an amazing website to those interested in the Japanese language, lifestyle, and culture. The closer to Japan you can get from your screen, the better! (And perhaps you will find yourself in Japan one day!)

What Notable Sections are there here?

Good question! While there are a few sections available right now, many more will become available soon (As they were during our beta release).

Learn Japanese / Education

Learn Japanese or about the Japanese culture through many of our available courses. All courses at the moment are free to use. In the future, we hope to entice teachers around the world to use our learning management system to accelerate people's education.

Club Jappleng

Create and join clubs around the world with Club Jappleng. It doesn't have to be strictly school club activities or study groups, but anything you would like such as fan clubs.There are no limit to how many clubs you can create or join. Have fun!

Practice & Games

Ever wanted to learn Japanese with games? This is the section for you. Our game library may be small at first but we are developing many new games to make learning a lot more interesting. Kana-Pop, Flashcards, KuNo! to name a few of our most popular and exciting apps!

J-Spot Social and Other Community Feature

Don't like Facebook or Twitter so much but want a nice friendly community to socialize with? Jappleng is the way to go with J-community features in mind. There's many things to do and many more to come in the future.

We also have our own chat application called IMChat as part of the website. 

Entertainment

This new section is currently under Beta testing and available only to those with a Jappleng Beta pass. Peruse through nearly 15,000 anime titles, soon manga, J-Pop, K-Pop and other sources of entertainment. Create lists, connect with clubs, follow actors, staff, studios, series and more.

What is the brief history of Jappleng?

Jappleng originally released in January 2006 as a blog. It has gone through various transitions and became the world's most popular J-Community forums in 2007. In 2008 Jappleng had shutdown due to the owner unable to find time to work on it much, and it returned in 2012 as a more advanced services. 

In 2014 development of a new Jappleng was pushed with significantly better features and by June 2017 Jappleng was ready to be used. However it did not support mobile and super resolution devices and as a result needed improvements again.

There was no time ton implement these features until January 2018. Late February 2018, Jappleng released as you see today. While most features cannot be used or seen, nor are most section available; in the eventual time should the website become more popular, these sections and features will return. "It was a wild ride, a concept that came about in 2005 at a time when I had virtually no knowledge of web development, finally became a reality in 2018. But then there were some complications with mobile devices and 4K displays, the interface was very confusing and the project had to be rebooted. On February 21, 2020 the website launched in the state of "Pre-release". It took many revisions, but if people use it and can benefit from it, then it was well worth it."

November 17, 2020: The project has been in Hiatus between March - October 2020. Many changes have been made and the project is being polished and more functional. Many new features and improvements have been made.

In 2021 Jappleng took the backseat due to life complications and maintained minimal updates.

In 2022 Jappleng continued to receive minimal updates but had also transformed for the better with enw features including Search, improved features, R&D for upcoming games and more.

In 2023 Jappleng returns in the hot seat and received significant improvements through all of its sections, features and new features, sections, games and many new lessons were released and more on the way. More than 14,800 anime titles, thousands of staff members, thousands of voice actors, over a hundred studios and hundreds of thousands of new pages released under the new Entertainment (beta) section as of April. Many more improvements on the way including several new games, dozens of new lessons, a new and improved JPLearn! 4th Edition, significant improvements throughout the site and better mobile support. New future sections also in consideration.