Resources for Fan Fiction writers

1. Japanese Name Gender Finder - Boy or girl? Given(first) name or family(last) name?
   
2. Animelab.com: Japanese -> English Dictionary (and vice versa)
   
3. Japanese English Dictionary(and vice Versa)
   
4. AltaVista - Babel Fish Translation
   
5. Kanji Search - Kanji input
   
6. rikaichan: Firefox extension that displays an inline popup showing the English definition of a Japanese word underneath the mouse
   
7. yourDictionary.com • Language Dictionaries (Armenian ASL Avestan Ayapathu Aymara
   Azeri Balinese Bamwe Bantu Basa Basque Belarusan... all you can think of translators)
   

And finally, to see words to avoid:
The Alternative Dictionaries
a collection of various forms of "bad language" from many languages