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Let's Learn Hiragana: First Book of Basic Japanese Writing (Kodansha's Children's Classics)
Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura
Kodansha International, 1985
Amazing Book
I learned the entire hiragana characters in 2 months thanks to this book!
Very simple, explanative and easy to follow!
I recommend!
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Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You (Power Japanese Series) (Kodansha's Children's ...
Jay Rubin
Kodansha International, 2002
Greasing the transition from intermediate to advanced...
This book is lots of fun. Rubin is witty, his turns of phrase are memorable, and overall the book will certainly put a smile on your face.
It's only useful once you've been studying Japanese for a couple of years, though.
Before then, it'll go over your head.
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The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi
Kodansha International, 2002
Business and Martial Arts
The book written by the samurai warrior Miyamoto Musashi circa 1645 is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, and it enjoys an audience considerably broader than only that of martial artists: for instance, some business leaders find its discussion of ...
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Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art
Shizuo Tsuji, Yoshiki Tsuji
Kodansha International, 2007
From Osaka With Love
This is the only Japanese cookbook you will ever need. As other reviewers have already mentioned, it is indeed "the Bible of Japanese cooking."
A little bit about me, I first feel in love with Japanese cooking at the age of 8, when for my birthday, my parents took me ...
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Tokyo City Atlas: A Bilingual Guide (3rd Ed.)
Kodansha International
Kodansha International, 2004
Essential Tokyo Guide
This was my "go to" book on our trip to Japan. One of the most useful features was being able to determine which door to take when exiting a subway station -as many of them are huge and have many exits. This saved us a bit of time. The subway/train map was also very ...
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Japanese for Busy People I: Romanized Version includes CD (Japanese for Busy People)
Association For Japanese-Language Teaching (Ajalt)
Kodansha International, 2006
Japanese for Busy People 1
I am using the book in conjunction with a class at a local college. The book is proving to be very useful. I received the book in good condition and I am very pleased with it.
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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
Peter Hopkirk
Kodansha International, 1992
Definitely history come alive...
I won't repeat too much of the praise already heaped upon this book, other than to say it is well deserved. Hopkirk has a very engaging writing style that makes it very difficult to put the book down.
Just a few notes:
- Hopkirk does a good job of staying on ...
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Japanese for Busy People I: Kana Version includes CD (Japanese for Busy People Series)
Association For Japanese-Language Teaching (Ajalt)
Kodansha International, 2006
Best of the Best for Beginners!
If you're looking for a good book to learn Japanese language, you probably have too many choices flooding your mind and have no idea which one is for you, because every one of them seems good. So, why this one?
This book is very well organized. It contains 11 units ...
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Yokai Attack!: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide
Hiroko Yoda, Matt Alt
Kodansha International, 2008
Specialized Bogeymen
Here in America we have the Bogeyman (Boogie Man?); the Hispanic culture has El Cucui; but in Japan, they have specialized creatures that lurk in the dark that do creepy things and help parents to make their kids behave.
Even though I am of Japanese ancestry, I was ...
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Kodansha's Furigana Japanese Dictionary: Japanese-English English-Japanese
Kodansha International
Kodansha International, 1999
THE BEST JAPANESE LANGUAGE DICTIONARY FOR BEGINNERS
I worn out my first copy of this dictionary during my 15 months as a Japanese Language student in Tokyo because I even used it when I went shopping. And I just bought a second. This may be the best Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary for beginning to ...
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Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa
Kodansha International, 1995
A wondrous and highly satisfying novel
I read Musashi 15 years ago, and I remember it vividly. It's such a sweeping, wondrous novel, I'm surprised it's not more famous than it is. I became a bit of a Yoshikawa fan from this, and visited his home, preserved as a museum, outside Tokyo. A beautiful serene ...
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Let's Learn Katakana: Second Book of Basic Japanese Writing
Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura
Kodansha International, 1986
Eh it's the best i've seen out there.
Forget "Jimi's Book of Japanese: A Motivating Method to Learn Japanese" and that "Kana Pict-o-Graphix : Mnemonics for Japanese Hiragana and Katakana", both suck (especially compared to this). They are a waste of money unless you are unable to learn anything ...
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Japanese for Busy People I: Workbook; includes CD (Japanese for Busy People)
Association For Japanese-Language Teaching (Ajalt)
Kodansha International, 2006
Want extra exercises? This is the one.
Do you own or plan to buy the "Japanese for Busy People I: Revised 3rd Edition" either in romanized or kana version? If you do, this is a pretty good choice if you want to do more exercises along with the lessons learned from the "Japanese for Busy People I". This ...
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The Kodansha Kanji Learners Dictionary (Japanese for Busy People)
Jack Halpern
Kodansha International, 2002
Possibly the best Kanji dictionary out there
Though it lacks a stroke-index for searching the characters, this is possibly the best Kanji dictionary available for foreign students interested in Japanese. Very complete and organized, and it's exclusive SKIP method is extremely efficient; I dare say it's the best ...
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Japanese for Busy People II: Third Revised Edition incl. 1 CD (Japanese for Busy People)
AJALT
Kodansha International, 2007
learn japanese
Well designed book, but don't think it's going to be easy to learn this language if you are a normal person. It's as good a way to study as you are likely to find, but you are going to need some other support from a native speaker.
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