A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese

This classic, best-selling learning and reference work, trusted by beginning and intermediate Japanese language students since 1959, is now being offered as a fourth edition and is thoroughly revised and up-to-date. Key features on this revised edition include:

• The most recent changes prescribed by the Japanese Ministry of Education

• Covering all the 2,136 characters in the “General Use,” Joyo Kanji set

• Detailing coverage of the 1,009 “Essential” Japanese characters arranged by grade for children in the first six years of grade school

• The Kanji characters are based more on their frequency in everyday language than the complexity of their composition

Author Biography

Florence Sakade was a renowned editor and author of numerous books about Japan’s language and culture, including the classic Origami: Japanese Paper Folding and Japanese Children’s Favorite Stories.

Janet Ikeda is Associate Professor of Japanese at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. She served as president of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, and is currently a Director of the AATJ. Ikeda is currently on the Japanese American Leadership Delegation (JALD).