Assessing JMDict Kanji 

I have extracted all Kanji entries from JMDict and placed them in 6 manageable files for most editors ( each of 6 files has about 30,000 Kanji); entries are space-separated and can be seen in a browser by using the JMDict link at http://kanji.aule-browser.com/ (tested on updated Firefox.)

Inspection of the 6 files suggest that great many entries will be irrelevant for a student of literature just a great deal would be irrelevant for a student of engineering, so optimization can be considered.  I may look at MongoDB first.

Parsing and extraction to date has been with the Curl XML library from Curl.com within the Curl IDE.
The Japanese Curl site is http://www.curlap.com

G. Robert Shiplett