Reading Japanese websites is a good way to improve your Japanese. A very good dictionary/translation tool is Rikai.com. This site is a fantastic tool for many people learning Kanji but haven’t quite got it down yet. Just type in the website URL you want translated and have the kanji translated for you in English and also its meaning in hiragana or katakana.

There’s a bonus for Firefox users as there are 2 plugins (RikaiXUL or RikaiChan) so you don’t have to access the Rikai site directly for translations.

Rikai.com also translates backward (English to Japanese) and also in other languages (Chinese to English, English to Spanish)