Tutorials and answers for getting the most out of Jiten.
The core ideas behind Jiten, covering media decks, coverage, known words, and difficulty, and how they fit together.
How Jiten approaches immersion learning, with a real media library, coverage tracking, free decks and open data.
The loop that gets you from a new account to reading something, and back around again
How to read difficulty scores, coverage and pick media you can enjoy.
A tour of a media page covering what all the stats mean.
A tour of a word page covering what everything means.
How to mark and import known words so coverage across the site reflects what you actually know.
Use the browser extension to parse Japanese on any page, look up words, and see i+1 highlighting.
Title language, furigana, reading speed, difficulty format, and more
Request media, vote on what gets added, send scripts and subtitles, and report what looks wrong
Set up study decks, do your daily reviews, and control how many cards you get tomorrow
Export a vocabulary deck from any title with only the words you want t ostudy
Subscribe to a curated set to count thousands of words as known at once, without creating a single card.
Customise words with custom meanings and sentences.
Paste Japanese text to look up how it breaks into words, or turn a whole text into an Anki deck.
What each chart on the stats page measures, and when a number is telling you to change something
Capture a word together with the sentence you met it in, and study it in the SRS without leaving what you were reading.
Jiten as an alternative to JPDB for Japanese learners, what each does best, and how to switch.
Jiten as an alternative to Migaku, what each does best, and where they overlap.
Bring your JPDB words and review history across so coverage and decks reflect your real level from day one.
Bring your Anki words into Jiten, with their review history, so coverage reflects what you already know
Set a retention target, fit the scheduler to your own history, and lighten the days you choose
Create a key, call the public endpoints, and stay inside the rate limits
Import your own Yomitan dictionaries so their definitions appear across the Jiten website and in your exported decks.
Add Jiten's global, per-media-type and kanji frequency data to Yomitan so every lookup shows a rank.
Understand how difficulty ratings work and vote to adjust them
Licensing terms for decks, frequency lists, and other derived data.
What's allowed when using Jiten's public API, and what counts as abuse.
How media gets prioritised, and how to request something that isn't here yet.
What to expect from VN, books, and anime/subtitle-based decks and how to report errors.
Why counts vary between sites — extraction differences and word segmentation.
The metadata APIs, text sources, and audio voices Jiten relies on.
What's planned next, and how to suggest media types.