Books for General Translation
Kenkyusha New Japanese-English Dictionary (5th Edition)
Kenkyusha New English-Japanese Dictionary (6th Edition)
New Japanese-English Character Dictionary


 


Books for General Translation


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Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary (5th edition)

This is an essential companion for the student of Japanese. This dictionary includes 230,000 entry words and compounds and 250,000 example sentences. This dictionary goes above and beyond most general-use dictionaries by including a fair selection of technical terms as well. To top it off, this dictionary includes the katakana names of famous world figures, places, and works of art as well as the names of ministries and agencies in the Japanese government. This is a dictionary that no serious student of Japanese should be without.
Currently, the best prices are available from Amazon Japan, but they do not ship overseas.

Available in CD-ROM and hardcover versions.


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CD-ROM with both J-E and E-J versions

Kenkyusha's New English-Japanese Dictionary (6th edition)

This dictionary can serve as a useful reference to the student of Japanese. It allows double-look up of terms if you are looking for just that right word when it cannot be found in any other resources.No other E-J dictionary is in the same league as this reference. It contains 260,000 headwords, making it a superior resource. Hardcover.
Available in CD-ROM version and hardcover, but they may not be available overseas. (As of this writing, the book is available overseas, but the CD-ROM is not.)


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New Japanese-English Character Dictionary

The New Japanese-English Character Dictionary features an easy-to-use, quick lookup system for looking up kanji characters using the pattern and also has indexes for lookup by the character's reading and stroke count. Moreover, compound examples are not limited to compounds where the kanji character appears first. In addition to a core meaning, this dictionary also provides the wide range of diverse meanings for each character. This is useful if you need to infer the meaning of a certain compound which is not listed in any dictionary. This is also a tremendous aid for gaining a complete grasp of a kanji character and its compounds.

This dictionary contains 4421 entry characters, including 834 cross-reference characters. Although this is less than the number of characters in Nelson's Dictionary, this should more than suffice for the student of Japanese. As you progress in your studies, your next step would be to use this dictionary in combination with a kan-wa jiten (kanji character-Japanese dictionary) having at least 10,000 characters.
Hardcover. 1992 pages.

For advanced users, CD-ROM Japanese dictionaries (Kojien and Daijirin) enable look up of kanji (thus serving as a kan-wa jiten) in addition to regular word compounds.




 

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