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This page is a complete list of all the books in the sci.lang.japan FAQ pages, grouped into categories.

Phrasebooks

  • BBC Phrase Book: Japanese
  • Common Japanese Phrases

    • Textbooks

    Beginner

  • Japanese Language and People
  • Japanese Language and People tapes

    • Elementary

  • Japanese for Busy People I
  • Japanese for Busy People II

  • Genki
  • Japanese: The Spoken Language
  • NHK's Let's learn Japanese 1
  • NHK's Let's learn Japanese 2
  • NHK's Let's learn Japanese 3
  • NHK's Let's learn Japanese 4
  • Situational Functional Japanese (volumes 1-3)
  • Situational Japanese volume 2
  • Situational Japanese volume 3
  • Situational Japanese volume 4
  • Situational Japanese volume 5
  • Colloquial Japanese
  • Colloquial Japanese With Important Construction and Grammar Notes

    • Business

    Kana

    Books on learning the kana.

  • Let's Learn Hiragana and Katakana
  • A Guide to Learning Hiragana and Katakana
  • Kana Pict-o-Graphix
  • Japanese kana workbook

    • Katakana

    Books on learning katakana.

  • Easy Katakana: How to Read and Write English Words Used in Japanese
  • Introduction to Written Japanese : Katakana
  • Let's Learn Katakana
  • Remembering the Katakana
  • All About katakana (Power Japanese series)

    • Hiragana

    Books on learning hiragana.

  • Easy Hiragana: First Steps to Reading and Writing Basic Japanese
  • Let's Learn Hiragana
  • Remembering the Hiragana : A Complete Course on How to Teach Yourself the Japanese Syllabary in 3 Hours

    • Kanji

    Basic level

  • 250 Essential Kanji for Everyday Use vol. 2
  • 250 Essential Kanji for Everyday Use
  • A Guide to Writing Kanji and Kana volume 1
  • A Guide to Writing Kanji and Kana volume 2
  • Decoding Kanji: A Practical Approach to Learning Look-Alike Characters
  • Designing With Kanji
  • Essential Kanji
  • Kanji Pict-o-Graphix
  • Noodle Words - An Introduction to Chinese and Japanese Characters
  • Kanji-A-Day Practice Pad
  • Kanji ABC - A Systematic Approach to Japanese Characters
  • Kanji Idioms
  • Kanji Power - A Workbook for Mastering Japanese Characters
  • Kanji Power Handbook for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test
  • Kanji Study Cards
  • Kanji and Kana - A Handbook and Dictionary of the Japanese Writing System
  • Kanji etymology
  • Kanji for Understanding Technical Japanese A supplementary textbook
  • Kanji in context
  • Write your name in kanji

    • Joyo kanji

    Books on how to remember all of the joyo kanji list.

  • A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese. The 1,850 Basic Characters and the Kana Syllabaries (Revised Edition)
  • Remembering the Kanji - A complete course on how not to forget the meaning and writing of Japanese characters
  • Remembering the Kanji II

    • Kanji cards

  • Tuttle Kanji Cards

    • Specialized

  • Business Kanji
  • Remembering the Kanji III

    • Grammar

  • Handbook of modern Japanese grammar
  • Barron's Japanese Grammar
  • Basic Japanese Grammar
  • Basic Sentence Patterns : Building Strong Foundations (Power Japanese Series)

    • Particles

  • All About Particles (Power Japanese series)
  • Dictionary of Japanese Particles
  • Joshi (助詞) particles
  • Particles Plus - A Complete Guide to the Usage of Particles in Modern Japanese
  • Kakujoshi (格助詞)
  • Wa to ga (はとが)

    • Vocabulary

  • An introduction to Newspaper Japanese
  • Barron's Japanese Vocabulary
  • How To Sound Intelligent In Japanese: A Vocabulary Builder (Power Japanese series)
  • Instant Vocabulary through Prefixes and Suffixes (Power Japanese series)
  • Japanese Newspaper Compounds - The 1000 Most Important in Order of Frequency
  • Japanese Vocabulary for Speakers and Readers

    • Slang/insults

  • Outrageous Japanese - Slang, Curses and Epithets
  • T-Shirt Japanese versus Necktie Japanese (Power Japanese series)
  • Using Japanese Slang
  • Zakennayo!
  • Beyond Polite Japanese (Power Japanese Series)
  • Making out in Japanese
  • Making out in Japanese - The Cassette
  • Japanese Slang -An Uncensored Guide

    • Idioms and proverbs

  • Animal idioms
  • 101 Japanese Idioms
  • 2001 Japanese-English Idioms
  • "Even Monkeys Fall From Trees" And Other Japanese Proverbs

    • Verbs

  • 501 Japanese verbs
  • The Complete Japanese Verb Guide
  • Japanese Verbs and Essentials of Grammar
  • Japanese Verbs at a Glance
  • The Magical Power Of Suru - Japanese Verbs Made Easy

    • Onomatopoeia

    Books on gitaigo and giseigo.

  • Flip, Slither, and Bang - Japanese Sound and Action Words
  • Nihongo Pera Pera - A User's Guide to Japanese Onomatopoeia
  • An Illustrated Dictionary of Japanese Onomatopoeic Expressions

    • Reading

  • Strange but True : A True-Life Japanese Reader (Power Japanese Series)
  • Strategies for reading Japanese : a rational approach to the Japanese sentence
  • The Japanese Written Word
  • Kanji from the Start: A Comprehensive Japanese Reader
  • Japanese -A Manual of Reading and Writing
  • Reading Japanese Financial Newspapers

    • Etiquette and culture

  • Nihongo notes
  • Japanese-English Dictionary of Japanese Culture

    • Linguistics

  • An introduction to Japanese linguistics
  • Croom Helm Descriptive Grammars: Japanese
  • The Japanese language through time
  • The handbook of Japanese linguistics
  • The languages of Japan

    • Dictionaries

    Kokugo jiten

  • Nippo jisho
  • Nikkoku

    • Romanized Japanese to English

  • All Romanized English-Japanese Dictionary
  • English Romanized Japanese Dictionary for Practical Conversation.
  • Inoue's Japanese-English Dictionary

    • Japanese to English

  • Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary
  • A Japanese and English Dictionary with an English and Japanese Index
  • Basic Japanese Conversation Dictionary English-Japanese, Japanese-English

    • English to Japanese

    Kan-wa

    Kanji to Japanese dictionaries

  • Daikanwa Jiten

    • Kanji to English

  • The Kanji Dictionary

    • Business

  • Japanese Business Dictionary
  • Japanese Business Glossary

    • Specialized

  • A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
  • A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
  • A Dictionary of Japanese Food. Ingredients and Culture.
  • A Dictionary of Japanese and English Idiomatic Equivalents

    • Proficiency test books

    Typefaces

  • Font example books

    • Magazines

  • Eye-AI - A magazine on Japanese Culture and entertainment.
  • The Nihongo Journal
  • Hiragana Times

    • Publishers

  • Bonjinsha
  • Shogakukan

    • Unclassified

    The following pages have not yet been classified into a category.

  • Japanese Beyond Words
  • Japanese Names (book)
  • "Body" Language (Power Japanese series)
  • AI (Japan Through John Lennon's Eyes - A Personal Sketchbook)
  • A Guide to Business and Social Customs
  • A Handbook of Japanese Usage
  • A Japanese Reader - Graded Lessons for Mastering the Written Language
  • A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
  • A Programmed Course on Respect Language in Modern Japanese
  • A Programmed Introduction to Literary Style Japanese
  • A Students' Guide to Japanese Grammar
  • An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese
  • An Introduction to Modern Japanese
  • An Introduction to Written Japanese
  • An historical grammar of Japanese
  • Barron's Talking Business in Japanese
  • Basic Connections-Making your Japanese Flow
  • Basic Technical Japanese
  • Beginners' Dictionary of Chinese-Japanese Characters With Common Abbreviations, Variants, and Numerous Compounds
  • Beginning Japanese - Part 1 Cassettes 16 cassettes, 20 lessons
  • Beginning Japanese - parts 1 and 2
  • Berlitz Japanese Workbook
  • Biotechnology: A supplementary textbook
  • Bringing Home the Sushi: An Inside Look at Japanese Business through Japanese Comics
  • Character Dictionary accompanying "Japanese - A Manual of Reading and Writing"
  • Communicating with KI- The "Spirit" in Japanese Idioms (Power Japanese series)
  • Comprehending Technical Japanese
  • Core Words and Phrases: Things You Can't Find in a Dictionary
  • Cultural Keys- The History of Japanese Words and Phrases
  • Dictionary of Computer and Data-Processing Terms (English-Japanese, Japanese-English)
  • Do-it-yourself Japanese Through Comics
  • Drive in Japanese
  • Easy Japanese: A Guide to Spoken and Written Japanese
  • Easy Japanese - A Direct Approach to Immediate Conversation.
  • Easy Kanji: A Basic Guide to Writing Japanese Characters
  • Effective Japanese Usage Guide - A Concise Explanation of Frequently Confused Words and Phrases
  • English Loanwords in Japanese: A Selection
  • Essential Japanese - An Introduction to the Standard Colloquial Language (3rd Revised Edition)
  • Essential Japanese Grammar
  • Everyday Japanese
  • Gaikokujin no tame no nihongo reibun - mondai shiriizu: 10 keigo (Japanese for Foreigners, number 10 keigo)
  • Goukaku doriru / zen 400 dai Title in English: preparation for the Japanese language proficiency test Level 1, 2 (合格ドリル/全400題)
  • Handbook of Modern Japanese Grammar
  • Handy Japanese
  • Harrap Japanese Business Management Dictionary
  • Hotel Japanese - Practical Guide for the Hotel Industry.
  • In Japan
  • Instant Japanese - Everything you need in 100 key words!
  • Japanese, a complete course for beginners
  • Japanese: The Spoken Language, Part I
  • Japanese: The Spoken Language, Part I: A Question and Answer Supplement
  • Japanese Character Dictionary: With Compound Lookup via Any Kanji
  • Japanese Grammar and Communication Strategies
  • Japanese Made Easy
  • Japanese Naturally (Nihongo Rashii Nihongo)
  • Japanese Travel Pack
  • Japanese Word-and-Phrase Book for Tourists
  • Japanese Words and Their Uses
  • Japanese for Business
  • Japanese for Fun - Make Your Stay in Japan More Enjoyable
  • Japanese for Today
  • Japanese for all Occasions - The Right Word at the Right Time
  • Japanese idioms
  • Japanese in Action: An unorthodox approach to the spoken language and the people who speak it (Revised Edition)
  • Japanese in no time
  • Jitsuryoku Appu! Nihongo Nouryouku Shiken Bunpou/Goi-hen Speed Learning! The Preparatory Course for the Japanese Proficiency Test; Grammar and Vocabulary Edition Levels 1 and 2
  • Jitsuryoku Appu! Nihongo Nouryouku Shiken Speed Learning! The Preparatory Course for the Japanese Proficiency Test
  • Keishikimeishi (形式名詞) pseudonouns
  • Kenkyusha's Furigana English-Japanese Dictionary
  • Kodansha's Romanized Japanese-English Dictionary
  • Koujien (広辞苑)
  • Let's Learn Kanji: An Introduction to Radicals, Components, and 250 Very Basic Kanji
  • Let's Study Japanese
  • Living Japanese - A Modern Reader (Power Japanese series)
  • Lonely Planet Japanese phrasebook (1st edition)
  • Lonely Planet Japanese phrasebook (2nd edition)
  • Love, Hate and Everything In Between
  • Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You
  • Mangajin
  • Mangajin's Basic Japanese through Comics Part 2
  • Mangajin's basic Japanese through comics
  • Mangajin CD-ROM
  • Martin's Concise Japanese Dictionary Fully Romanized with Complete Kanji and Kana
  • Martin's Pocket Dictionary English-Japanese, Japanese-English
  • Merriam Webster's Japanese-English Learners Dictioanary
  • Minimum Essential Politeness: A Guide to the Japanese Honorific Language
  • More Making out in Japanese
  • NTC's Dictionary of Japan's Cultural Code Words
  • New Japanese-English Character Dictionary
  • Nihongo Nouryouku Shiken ni Deru Juuyou Tangoshuu
  • Nihongo Through Newspaper Articles
  • Nihongo de Manabu Nihon
  • Nihongo nouryoku shiken shutsudai kijun (translation: Japanese language proficiency test question setting criteria)
  • Philips Language System - Japanese
  • Polymer Science and Engineering --- A supplementary Textbook
  • Preparation and Strategy Practice Questions for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test
  • Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary.
  • Read Japanese Today
  • Read Real Japanese (Power Japanese series)
  • Reading Japanese
  • Reading Your Way Around Japan: The Traveller's Sign Book
  • Rii to Kuraku no Bouken (The Adventures of Lee and Clark)
  • Shakaijin no tame no Kokugo no Joushiki
  • Solid-State Physics and Engineering --- A supplementary textbook
  • Speak Japanese Today - A Self-Study Program for Learning Everyday Japanese
  • Suru shita shiteiru （する・した・している）
  • Survival Japanese - How to Communicate Without Fuss or Fear - Instantly
  • Talking Business in Japanese
  • The Complete Japanese Expression Guide
  • The Japan Foundation Basic Japanese-English Dictionary
  • The Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 1 and 2 Questions and Correct Answers
  • The Kenkyusha Japanese-English Learner's Dictionary
  • The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary
  • The Oxford-Duden Pictorial Japanese and English dictionary
  • The Practical English-Japanese Dictionary
  • The Practical Guide to Japanese Signs
  • The Practical Guide to Japanese Signs (1st part)
  • Tuttle's Dictionary of Loanwords in Japanese
  • Tuttle's Watch-Pocket Dictionary (English-Japanese)
  • Tuttle Dictionary of Legal Terms English-Japanese, Japanese-English
  • Womansword: What Japanese Words Say About Women
  • Words mean business: Basic Japanese Business Glossary
  • Yohan English-Japanese, Japanese-English Dictionary.
  • 漢和中辞典
  • 福武漢和辞典