Ganguro: I'm probably going to exchange to Japan next Spring semester.
If you don't get to exchange you could look into something like the JET program. It's a neat program where you teach English in Japan for 1 - 3 years and they help you find a place to live and things like that. Makes a good amount of money, too.
You might also be interested in a project I hope to work on this summer--
I do some PHP web application development and I've been toying around with the idea of creating a big fat Japanese language database. The idea is that vocabulary is grouped in themes (for example, "Vocabulary for Cooking") and also give quick summations of grammatical structures. Maybe even some kanji lessons. It will be a multi-user community-based website so ideally we'll have dozens (possibly hundreds) of people contributing this kind of information.
Who knows, I have a lot of projects to do this summer, so I can't quite promise I'll get this one done (although I've actually completed some of the backbone code for it already).
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