Kenkyu-Sha's New English-Japanese Dictionary [Import] [JP Oversized]

Yoshio Koine (Editor)

Product Details

• JP Oversized: 2477 pages
• Publisher: Kenkyu-Sha,Japan; 5Rev Ed edition (December 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 4767410258
• ISBN-13: 978-4767410258
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.3 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #263,392 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you cannot already read Kanji, this book is not for you., February 4, 2003

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This review is from: Kenkyu-Sha's New English-Japanese Dictionary (JP Oversized)

This book is definitely a very good dictionary, but what the reviews I read failed to explain is that it is a English->Japanese dictionary intended for Japanese speakers learning English not the other way around. It uses all Kanji without any hiragana "spellings," so unless you read Japanese well, I don't think this book is what a English speaking student of Japanese needs.

There is no doubt, though, that it is an excellent dictionary for Japanese students of English. It has a huge number of English words headwords, and my Japanese wife testified to the quality of its translation. Thus I feel it deserves a good rating. Maybe it was only me who mistakenly believed it was for English speakers, but that is not the dictionary's fault.