USEFUL LINKS ABOUT JAPNESE LANGUAGE AND OTHER ARTICLES

Japanese folktales and legends:

1) > [Audio-Script] Japanese and world folktales and fairy-tales. Tales are categorized by order of linguistic difficulty.
<easier> - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 <more difficult> and other categories.
I suppose 2 and up might be good for you. They have 100 stories just in 2 level, quite enough. Haha.
http://hukumusume.com/douwa/0_6/index.html
2) Traditional Japanese Children's Stories[Script only, in Japanese and English] Visit the link and scroll down to find the listed titles.
http://life.ou.edu/stories/
3) >
[Animation in Japanese with Japanese subtitles] Japanese legends.
http://miyagi-jinjacho.or.jp/shinwa.html
These sites above are all for Japanese children, that means the stories are written in easy Japanese and kanji, read aloud slowly, and short!
Japanese culture and other articles:
1) MATCHA-easy Japan travel magazine a web magazine written in easy Japanese. Articles are categorized into as following:
(events) / (otaku) / (tips) / (places) / (culture) / (accommodation) / (shopping) / (eating)
http://mcha-easy.com/ (Good for reading practice) They also have standard Japanese version: http://mcha.jp/
2) Web Japan: This is the entrance of the huge site all about Japan. Available not only in English,
but also in Spanish, but Im not sure for all the contents or not. For your fun.
http://web-japan.org/index.html
Japan Video Topics Here youll find shot video clips about many articles in Japanese, Spanish, and other languages.
http://web-japan.org/jvt/index.html
NIPPONIA, quality web magazine Archives of detailed Japanese culture, history, arts, and other various topics.
All articles can be read in Spanish, Japanese (for native level, though), and English etc.
http://web-japan.org/nipponia/archives/es/life_culture/food.html
3) Japan - official guide, by Japan Official Tourism Organization[mainly in English, and partially in Spanish as well] For your fun.
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/
Japan in-depth Youll find interesting information to understand Japanese culture in the past and now.
Linked from the top page of the site. Click the named tab.
Portal for Japanese: NIHONGO e- (in easy Japanese)
Here, youll find tons of useful links for various skills to improve Japanese; to read, to speak, to write, to understand grammar, etc.
http://nihongo-e-na.com/jpn/