(Re)Learning Japanese (reading only)

Well I decided I'm going to (re)learn Japanese. However, I only want to be able to read and understand Japanese, I have no current need for writing or speaking Japanese (no doubt I'll still learn it on the way). Reason? Manga, TV and movie subtitles, and video games, mostly for reading. in before "WEEABOO", my automated response to that: "Fuck off."

Current proficiency:

Can read & write Hiragana 100%.
Can read & write Katakana 100%, and decent enough at translating it.
CANNOT read & write Kanji at all, outside of numbers.
Is aware of the difficulty of Japanese grammar, levels of politeness, particles etc... but does not know much about it.

Anyone have any decent Japanese-learning links or download resources (textbooks, audiobooks etc)?

I'm currently going through my old high school textbooks and a Genki Vol.1 e-book. I need a decent hardcopy Japanese dictionary though, know a good one?.

Thanks.

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If you're living in Japan you should be able to get good at Japanese pretty fast I think.  You're probably just not using the language enough, or you're using English too much.  Do you hang out with all English speakers or something?  I've been living here for about 2 years now and I don't have any English speaking friends, the only time I really use English is on 4chan (one side effect of this is that I have a hard time speaking politly in English anymore and tend to say words like faggotry and fail a lot).  But seriously.  Hang out with people, make friends, use 2ch, play eroge, hell, just read books and shit.  In less than a year I stopped feeling like I'm having trouble with stuff and started just talking as normally as possible and sounding kinda silly but in time it started feeling a lot more normal and shit, my friends sometimes give me shit for having a slight accent and sometimes I talk really fast (I talk fast in English too and it kinda carried over I guess) and then get all dyslexic and shit, but otherwise I never really feel like my language skills are inadequate.  I just feel like the one guy foreign kid in your group of friends you probably had back in highscool who has an accent and occasionally says shit that makes people go "huh?" but for the most part sounds normal.  I mean, think about immigrant kids you'd meet in highschool back in the US, they'd learn English to a pretty fluent point in a few months because it was the only language they ever used.  Learning Japanese (or in my theory any foreign language) is only a matter of learning the target language up to a certain point, after that it's a matter of UNlearning English or whatever other mother language you had.  I realized I was getting fluent in Japanese the first time I went back to the US to visit after living here about a year and found myself formulating a lot of stuff in Japanese grammer first and then stumbling on it in English, like, I'd say, "More than... er, well, more over than that, er, I mean, like, isn't it kinda late?" and shit when I was just trying to be like "つーかもう遅くね？" or something like that.  Being really fluent in 2 languages at the same time, now that'd be cool.  Right now I'm in a stupid middle ground where when I really sit down to write something and try to make it sound good, I find myself having trouble in both languages.