Reading Japanese Financial Newspapers

Author	Association for Japanese Language Teaching
Publisher	Kodansha
Series	Japanese for busy people
Category	Business related
ISBN	0870119567 [COPAC, Webcatplus, Wikipedia]

Review of Reading Japanese Financial Newspapers by Ben Bullock

From the back of the book:

Basic reading materials incorporated with a glossary and exercises to bridge the gap between general Japanese and specialized Japanese

Examples from actual newspaper articles that prepare students for direct use of Japanese financial publications

18 categories of technical expressions (including furigana).

A list of 500 kanji characters most essential for understanding financial terms, with over 1,500 examples

More than 3,500 key financial terms and phrases in a Japanese-English glossary, for easy reference

Appendices of valuable supplementary terms and abbreviations useful for understanding financial newspapers.

This book aims to make the reader proficient in reading the financial sections of Japanese newspapers. It is a sequel to the books "Japanese for busy people" and "Japanese for busy people II" written by the same authors. As well as teaching phrases for reading newspapers it also teaches the 500 most important kanji necessary to do this.

I found that this book is quite useful in general, not just for reading financial newspapers. However I wonder if 500 kanji is really enough to read even just the financial sections of a Japanese newspaper?

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