The Original Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary: Classic Edition

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"The Japanese government may someday recognize as it ought toTuttles contribution to creating an intelligent interest in Japan among the Englishreading public and deepening understanding of Japanese overseas."Hokubei Mainichi (San Francisco) Awarded the 1969 Prize for the Society of the Promotion of International Cultural Relations this is the most comprehensive Japanese dictionary of its kind. Containing JapaneseEnglish and EnglishJapanese sections it is an essential reference tool for serious students studying the Japanese language or for businesspeople and tourists wishing to learn Japanese before they travel. Special features include: Lists over 5 000 carefully selected characters with their 10 000 current readings and almost 70 000 compounds in current use al with concise English definitions. Scientifically arranged by a logical extension of the traditional radical system so as to make the finding of a given character almost foolproof saving hours of time. Makes provision for quickly finding characters either in their traditional or their modern and often greatly altered forms thus serving for both prewar and postwar literature. Includes 14 valuable appendices giving (1) instructions for the most efficient use of the dictionary (2) discussions of the written language in general and particularly of its recent and farreaching official modifications and (3) much helpful information that readers in East Asian fields have heretofore had to search for in many different places. Contains an onkun index which makes it not only a readers dictionary but also a writers dictionary.