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Japanese Business Dictionary: Over 3,200 Key Terms English to Japanese

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This book is filled with translations of business-related English phrases. While the quantity of terms and the quality of the translations are good, there are two fundamental flaws with this book.
1. All the Japanese terms are written in Romaji, or alphabetic characters. While this may be adequate for those who are just learning the language, it is very limiting for advanced speakers, who are probably more likely to use the high-level expressions contained in this book. I realize that the first edition of this book was published in 1991, but would it have been too much to ask to include the Japanese? Even for a beginning user it can be quite helpful to have the Japanese text to show to a native speaker when communication breaks down. Sometimes Romaji can't cut it.
2. It's only English-Japanese. If you want to go the other way, you're pretty much out of luck.
This dictionary is [inexpensive], but in this case you get what you pay for.

This book is really great if you are wanting to learn Japanese words that are used in everyday business. I have had a few year of Japanese classes in college, and they really did not prepare me for interacting in the Japanese's business enviroment. They never taught me the vocab. necessary to do business in Japan, but this book did the trick.