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From ai (“love”) to zukkyu! (“heart attack!”) Japanese Street Slang details the roughest and rawest street language as it’s used in Japan today. Here’s how the Japanese really speak: the hustlers and high-rollers, the anime otaku teens and Tokyo yuppies, the gangsters and their ladies of the night. This is the guide to the kinkiest sex talk, drug slang, criminal lingo, popular text-messaging abbreviations, and more. More than just a guide to gritty and gross-out gab, this book includes witty mini-essays that trace the fascinating origins of many expressions and rollicking example sentences that reveal just how and where they may be heard.

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224 pages
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English
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Weatherhill
Publication date

February 8, 2011
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5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
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1590308484
ISBN-13

978-1590308486
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“Kakkoii (Cool) is a good word to describe this book. Constantine’s painstaking research has produced a collection of words and phrases in the Japanese language used by everyone from teenagers to criminals to members of mainstream Japanese society when choosing to not be quite so stereotypically polite. Part academic treatise, part introduction to the colloquial side of the Japanese language, Japanese Street Slang offers something for linguists and Japanophiles alike.”—Elephant Journal

About the Author

Peter Constantine is the author of Japan’s Sex Trade and Japanese Slang Uncensored. He was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann and the National Translation Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov. He has also translated works by Isaac Babel, Machiavelli, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Weatherhill; 2nd Revised, Updated ed. edition (February 8, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1590308484
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1590308486
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches

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Dougy D

A useful supplementary title for Japanese learners

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2018

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You can deduce from the comments on here that the writing style of this work (not to mention the information as well) will vary depending on the edition you're reading. The currently marketed 2011 edition features rather clearcut, info-rich compositions arranged in alphabetical order by big slang key words (ex. flip to "imo" ("hick/redneck"), or "chikan" (pervert) for an explanation on the slang term, example sentences, its derivatives and similar slang). The amount of new words/information one will be be encountering will probably be somewhat intense, which makes the book an ideal resource to refer to when the time is necessary, rather than an exhaustive read-through. The most glaring flaw here is its text format of strictly romaji; no kanji or kana use. Romaji is an early learning aid at best, one that is probably going to be long abandoned by the more intermediate/advanced Japanese learner who decides to pick up this work. For myself, there were even times that trying to find the corresponding kanji for some of the slang terms turned into a timely google search hunt, which could have been remedied by just providing the reader with the original characters.

The romaji hassle aside, the degree of information provided in these pages, as well as pulling no punches on any of the seedy topics, no matter how vulgar, make this a worthy purchase.

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Verneal

Hmmm. PG-13

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2011

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I got this book thinking it a lot of stuff like "Whatsup?" and similar to that. Well, i got the book, so excited, and i read in it, probably 5 pages in the whole book was stuff you will see everyday, and the rest of the book was about sex terms. It was a bit too PG-13. This is a great book if you need a hooker or something. Less likely you will use these words everyday in Japan. It might be good, if you are just looking forward to extending your Japanese vocabulary, but otherwise, i would consider getting "Dirty Japanese: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!""
this is probably the best slang book you can get. (:

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Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2011

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Although this was bought as a present for someone when i had a quick flip it seemed interesting, well organised and easy to understand.

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2011

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So I open the book and start reading... Most of the slang words are EXTREMELY vulgur, and there are no cuss words. (I bought this product so that if I ever go to Japan, I'll know when people are cussing me out or calling me rude things that the beginner's book wouldn't have taught me.) Almost all the terms are very sexual and just... Disgusting. So if you want to know that kind of stuff, then this book is for you, but if you're like me and just wanting to know when someone is being rude to you, don't buy it!

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Jessica Rose

Native speakers laugh hysterically at the incorrect Japanese in this book.

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2014

My Japanese friends laughed very hard as they told me 80% of this book contained words they had never heard of, and even speculated were made up.
This book contains outdated or outright incorrect Japanese, and should not be picked up by anybody hoping to speak actual, real Japanese. Ever.

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semioden

obstacle aux pratiques bouddhistes

Reviewed in France on January 11, 2012

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"Mala" signifie " obstacle aux pratiques bouddhistes" , un humoriste des temps anciens a fait comprendre que l'obstacle , en question , faisait croître la population .
Un excellent exercice consiste à reprendre les mots en romaji et chercher les kanjis associés .
par exemple : Femme + enfant = amour , mais femme et plus loin : enfant donne autre chose .
l'égalité homme femme , semble exister au Japon car il y a un mot pour les pervers masculins et un pour les pervers femme .
Le mot "chira"( coup d’œil ) est appliqué à toutes les sauces ; on est étonné de savoir le nombre de domaines où l'on peut jeter un chira .
Le mot "démon" correspond à "maniaque" et il y a également beaucoup de démons .

Il est regrettable que beaucoup de mots d'argot japonais soient des emprunts à l'américain .
Les mots ( anodins) comme "à coté" réservent des surprises ; il y a une grande différence entre : l'à coté de la femme et la femme d'à coté .
Ce livre nous enseigne que les japonais et plus largement les asiatiques , sont maîtres dans l'art de la dissimulation et qu'en fait ils manient la "perversion" dans tellement de domaines que cela dépasse l'imagination .

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Y. Vincent

Argot japonais

Reviewed in France on December 13, 2011

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Nouvelle édition mise à jour de cet ouvrage de référence sur la langue populaire et argotique japonaise contemporaine, prenant en compte les récentes évolutions linguistiques au Japon. Gros défaut du livre cependant : le japonais y est présenté en transcription.

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