Fun sites to visit:

• BentoLunch Livejournal community – An active community of English speakers who make bento, from novices to experienced hands.
• Lunch in a Box – The personal blog of one of the most experienced posters on the BentoLunch community, and very well tagged and annotated.
• E-obento.com – One author’s
  Japanese-language online diary of her daily bento-making adventures (which led to a book
  that came out in Japan in October ’05.)
• Ekiben.or.jp – Clickable map of Japanese train stations and pictures of their station-specific
  bento.
• http://web-japan.org/nipponia/nipponia11/spot02.html
  Distinctive bento from train stations around the country
• http://park1.wakwak.com/~harumi/bento.html

  Terrifyingly cute homemade bento that a mother named Harumi makes for
  a daughter named Michiru

• http://www.otafuku.co.jp/
  Otafuku’s website, where they have LOTS of recipes in both Japanese and (occasionally amusing) English. (Otafuku makes sauces like yakisoba
  sauce and okonomiyaki sauce. Bulldog has more of the Japanese market,
  but I haven’t spotted their website…)
• http://homepage3.nifty.com/maryy/eng/sushi_glossary.htm
  Quatrilingual glossary of food terms, mostly sushi-related