I took Japanese for three years and found it indispensable. The kanji look-up tool is fantastic though students writing essays should be careful about its use, since one word can often have several translations, some of which could be not quite right.
JEDICT download
And if you want a digital version for your computer, instead of going to the website, you can find out about this dictionary here: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/j_edict.html
I took Japanese for three years and found it indispensable. The kanji look-up tool is fantastic though students writing essays should be careful about its use, since one word can often have several translations, some of which could be not quite right.