A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower

02 In a rare collection of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japanese history in its entirety to identify the factors underlying the nation's progression to superpower status. Japan's achievement is explained not merely in economic terms, but at a more fundamental level, as a product of historical patterns of response to circumstance. Japan is shown to be a nation historically impelled by a pragmatic determination to succeed. The book also highlights unresolved questions and little known facts. In a rare collection of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japanese history in its entirety to identify the factors underlying the nation's progression to superpower status. Japan's achievement is explained not merely in economic terms, but at a more fundamental level, as a product of historical patterns of response to circumstance. Japan is shown to be a nation historically impelled by a pragmatic determination to succeed. The book also highlights unresolved questions and little known facts.

History

Henshall, Kenneth G.

Asia

St.Martins

A one-of-a-kind kanji study guide that introduces joyo kanji along with detailed, authentic notes about the historical development of each. As useful as it is fascinating, it's a book any new or aspiring scholar of Japanese will visit over and over. In clear, large-sized entires, A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters details each of the General Use Characters In clear, large-sized entires, A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters details each of the General Use Charactersâ€”the 1,945 characters prescribed by the Japanese Ministry of Education for everyday use. Both Japanese readings and English meanings are given, along with stroke-count and stroke-order, examples of usage, and suggestions for memorizing. The components of each character are detailed. The kanji are graded according to Ministry of Education guidelines, allowing the student to prioritize them and track progress. Comprehensive and clear, A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters makes Japanese writing accessible to everyone.

A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters (English and Japanese Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Charles E.Tuttle Publishing

Guide to Learning Hiragana &amp; Katakana (Tuttle Language Library)

Guide to Learning Hiragana & Katakana

Takagaki, Tetsuo

Tuttle+publishing

A one-of-a-kind kanji study guide that introduces joyo kanji along with detailed, authentic notes about the historical development of each. As useful as it is fascinating, it's a book any new or aspiring scholar of Japanese will visit over and over. In clear, large-sized entires, A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters details each of the General Use Characters In clear, large-sized entires, A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters details each of the General Use Characters—the 1,945 characters prescribed by the Japanese Ministry of Education for everyday use. Both Japanese readings and English meanings are given, along with stroke-count and stroke-order, examples of usage, and suggestions for memorizing. The components of each character are detailed. The kanji are graded according to Ministry of Education guidelines, allowing the student to prioritize them and track progress. Comprehensive and clear, A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters makes Japanese writing accessible to everyone.

A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters: All the Kanji Characters Needed to Learn Japanese and Ace the Japanese Language Proficiency Test

A lively introduction to the Japanese language in accessible prose. Not a language-learning tool per se, but rather an engaging and demystifying overview of Japanese from linguistic, historical and social perspectives. Excellent for students, travelers, armchair linguists, and anyone interested in Japanese culture.

Welcome to Japanese: A Beginner's Survey of the Language (Welcome To Series)

Kawai, Junji

Guide to learning Hiragana and Katakana: First Steps to reading and writing Japanese

Guide to Learning Hiragana & Katakana: First Steps to Reading and Writing Japanese

Learning Hiragana and Katakana is a systematic and comprehensive overview of the two kana systems needed to read and write Japanese. With expanded writing and preparation space, this revised edition offers ample provisions for practice, review and self-testing at several levels. It also includes a detailed reference section explaining the origin and function of kana and the various kana combinations. Complete with a detailed pronunciation guide, this volume will prove invaluable for beginning students or those accustomed to romanized Japanese.

Learning Japanese Hiragana and Katakana: Workbook and Practice Sheets

Text: English, Japanese (translation)

The Quilt and Other Stories by Tayama Katai (English and Japanese Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Tayama, Katai

Short Stories & Anthologies

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Learn over 2,000 Japanese Kanji characters with this user-friendly Japanese language-learning book. This unique Kanji study guide provides a comprehensive introduction to all the Kanji characters on the Japanese Ministry of Education's official Joyo ("General Use") list—providing detailed notes on the historical development of each character as well as all information needed by students to read and write them. As fascinating as it is useful, this is the book every Japanese language learners keeps on his or her desk and visits over and over. This Kanji book includes:<ul>
<li> Clear, large-sized entries</li>
<li> All of the General Use Joyo Kanji Characters</li>
<li> Japanese readings and English meanings</li>
<li> stroke-count</li>
<li> stroke order</li>
<li> usage examples</li>
<li> mnemonic hints for easy memorization</li> </ul>The components which make up each character are detailed, and the Kanji are graded in difficulty according to Ministry of Education guidelines, allowing students to prioritize the order in which the Kanji are learned and track their progress. This book is essential to anyone who is planning to take the official Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) and will appeal to beginning students as well as those who wish to attain higher-level mastery of the Japanese language. It is the only book that also provides historical and etymological information about the Japanese Kanji. This latest edition has been updated to include all of the 2,136 Kanji on the expanded Joyo list issued by the Japanese government in 2010. Many entries have been revised to include the most recent research on character etymologies.

The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: (JLPT All Levels) Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Characters

Seely, Christopher

Learning Hiragana and Katakana is a systematic and comprehensive Japanese workbook that is perfect for self-study or use in a classroom setting. Written Japanese combines three different types of characters: the Chinese characters known as kanji, and two Japanese sets of phonetic letters, hiragana and katakana, known collectively as kana, that must be mastered before the Japanese kanji can be learned. Learning Japanese Hiragana and Katakana provides beginning-level students of Japanese a thorough grounding in the basic hiragana and katakana phonetic symbols or syllabaries. A comprehensive introduction presents their primary function, origin, pronunciation and usage. The main body of the book is devoted to presenting the 92 hira and kata characters along with their variations, giving step-by-step guidelines on how to write each character neatly in the correct stroke order, with generous practice spaces provided for handwriting practice. This Japanese workbook includes:<ul>
<li> Systematic and comprehensive coverage of the two Japanese kana systems.</li>
<li> Ample provision for Japanese kana practice, review, and self-testing at several levels</li>
<li>Detailed reference section explaining the origin and function of kana, and the various kana combinations.</li>
<li> Access to online Japanese audio files to aid in correct pronunciation.</li>
<li> Helpful additional information for language students accustomed to romanized Japanese.</li>
<li> Vocabulary selected for usefulness and cultural relevance.</li>
</ul>
About this new edition: The new third edition has been expanded and revised to include many additional reading and writing exercises. Accompanying online recordings demonstrate the correct pronunciation of all the characters, vocabulary, and sentences in the book.

Learning Japanese Hiragana and Katakana: A Workbook for Self-Study

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