Japan Today and How It Got This Way (Furigana JAPAN)

Furigana on every single kanji • Japanese original in large print + English translation + word list on the same page • No need to spend time consulting reference books • Everything you need to know on Japan is right here

This is the first ever series of bilingual books to include furigana superscript above every single kanji word in the text. Commonly used in children's books in Japan, furigana is a tried-and-tested, non-intrusive and efficient way to learn to read kanji ideograms. By enabling you to decipher every word immediately, furigana helps you grasp the meaning of whole passages faster without needing to get bogged down in fruitless and demoralizing searches for the pronunciation of individual words. By providing you with the pronunciation, furigana also enables you to commit new words to memory right away (since we remember more by sound than by appearance), as well as giving you the wherewithal to look them up, should you want to go beyond the single usage example on the facing English page. Furigana JAPAN provides a mini-glossary at the foot of each page to help you identify and commit to memory the most important words and phrases.