Whether you are a designer working for Japanese clients or if you just want to impress your Japanese girlfriend (or boyfriend) with your Photoshop skills, you've certainly became bored with the very limited set of Japanese fonts that comes with your operating system. Here's a collection of some of my favorite j-fonts categorized by shōtai.
There is a lot of differing opinion about whether foreign learners of the Japanese language should learn kanji, and whether they should be introduced at an early stage in the learning of Japanese.