I am wanting to browse the selections of DVDs at the German site and at the Japanese site for amazon.com, but unfortunately, they are very hard to navigate do to the language problems. I can figure things out farily well to have a rudimentary understanding on the German site, but forget it at the Japanese site. Do they have links to those sites that automatically translate into English?

I wish, I tried amazon.jp once, but threw my hands up in disgust. At least HMV (Japan) has an English translation, but the S&H is a tad more expensive than say CDJapan, which I find more reliable and faster processing.

I don't know about the Japanese site but the German Amazon is more or less the same as Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Why don't you compare them and keep a dictionary to hand?

You may want to look at this thread where some links are given to sites that will help you navigate amazon.co.jp

Thread: How do I go about ordering from Amazon.jp to the US?

Cheers,
Gabe