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This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume covers topics such as technology, food, nationalism and rise of anime and manga in the visual arts.

This guide to modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language. With more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development of their respective countries, this companion is an essential starting point for the study of East Asian literatures.

Containing high-frequency English words with Japanese equivalents, technical terms, new words, and vocabulary related to Japanese culture, this book presents interjections, idioms, and phrasal verbs. It includes entries on Japanese usage, and grammar appendices / key verb declensions.

This dictionary aims to be a valuable reference on Chinese characters in the Japanese language. The 1945 essential kanji characters as determined by Japan's Ministry of Education are included, with 18,000 kanji compounds and 2000 business terms indexed by ON/KUN readings, radical and stroke count.

Modern Japanese Novelists explores the remarkable flowering of literature Japan has seen in the twentieth century. Writers of Japan's modern era have both borrowed—and often improved upon—Western techniques of writing fiction and turned for inspiration to their rich heritage of indigenous literary traditions.

With its detailed and up-to-date information on kanji meanings, readings, and usages, its accessible new design, its convenient lookup methods (six including SKIP), and its added content, this dictionary is certain to satisfy the needs of students, teachers, scholars, translators.

Mini Japanese Dictionary contains important notes on the Japanese language, Japanese grammar and Japanese pronunciation. All Japanese words are written in a Romanized form as well as Japanese script (kanji and kana) so that in the case of difficulties the book can simply be shown to the person the user is trying to communicate with.