Completely flabbergasted that I hadn't noticed this before: The built in dictionary app included with Mac OS 10.6 (perhaps earlier?) contains a couple of fantastic Japanese dictionaries which are easily enabled in its preferences menu. Example sentences, Japanese-English, Japanese-Japanese, and even a synonym dictionary are all there. Furthermore, it is also possible to add the free
StarDict dictionaries to this application by following
these directions. Cool, cool stuff. My inner language geek is quite a happy fellow today.
High time to finish what I've started. || Anki vocabulary drive: 5,000/10k. Restart coming soon. || Dig my
Road to Katakana tutorial on the App store.
