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Sales Rank: 1540858
Category: Book
Author: Association For Japanese-language Teaching
Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc
Studio: Kodansha Amer Inc
Manufacturer: Kodansha Amer Inc
Label: Kodansha Amer Inc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 7.3 x 1
ISBN: 0870119567
Dewey Decimal Number: 495.68642102433
EAN: 9780870119569
ASIN: 0870119567
Publication Date: May 1991
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Product Description
This textbook is aimed at people who need direct access to the Japanese financial pages. A graded study of primary terminology, specialized phrasing and selected readings is included/
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 A great technique-building workbook September 12, 2004
Though currently out of print, this textbook from Kodansha is quite excellent and well worth tracking down for students of Japanese eager to reach an advanced level of control in the language. Very few "Advanced" textbooks really do much to help you with anything other than the specific stories or articles that they provide as examples. "Reading Japanese Financial Newspapers," however, is extremely effective at getting the new vocabulary and kanji compounds in your head keeping what you learn in the front of your mind. I am an actor, not a businessman, but this book has helped tremendously in making the leap forward to reading contemporary newspapers, novels, and essays in Japan.
That said, this is NOT for the beginner. You must already have a firm grasp of hiragana, katakana, and basic kanji. This textbook will make the difference for those who have mastered basic and have a relatively firm grip on intermediate Japanese. At the beginning you should feel that much of the material is repetition of more vague words that you've already experienced in some capacity. However, the book moves at a very quick pace, cementing those aspects for a strong foundation upon which to gain control of the more advanced language that comes soon after.
If you're new to the language or just finished the beginning phase, try another more basic textbook. But for the already fairly experienced Japanese student, this book is more than worth the search.
 This is the brute force approach August 3, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I do not recommend this for learning kanji, but only for the word lists (like the sample financial statements at the end) and some of the grammatical points.
I've owned this book for ten years or so and never got even half-way thru the first section until I had worked my way thru another, far better book, "Business Kanji" published by Tuttle in 1999. I am now finally getting thru it, but still don't like it much.
Although this book is exhaustively thorough especially regarding grammatical patterns, it relies far to much on brute force memorization. Kanji are introduced and used in no apparent order and are not reinforced once learned.
It is perhaps the "best" for business of an outdated methodology which has been replaced by the far better approaches of Prof. Eleanor Jorden ("Reading Japanese"--although that doesn't begin to go far enough to read a newspaper), Prof. Edward Daub et al. ("Basic Technical Japanese" which I have also reviewed very favorably here) and "Business Kanji" by Reiko Suzuki, et alia.
Another classic Japanese language text... February 4, 2002
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My advice is to use Jordan's Reading Japanese as a starting point, and eventually move on to Reading Japanese Financial Newspapers. I struggled with this text for quite some time, but eventually emerged literate enough to read Nikkei Shimbun pretty comfortably...
Very very good book... April 22, 1999
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I got this book hoping that it would give a boost to my newspaper reading ability... It did. Although I already knew almost all the Joyo kanji, I didn't know a laaarge number of the terms commonly used in newspapers... especially the financial terms. This book greatly helped in remedying that... The most important thing you should know is that this book _isn't_ just about finance -- it's about almost everything in japanese newspapers, including sentence structure and common idioms... And at any rate, it's much nicer to skim by boring financial articles knowing that you could read them if you wanted to ... If you are frustrated with newspapers, get this book. It won't do everything for you, but it'll do a lot... And it's easy to work through, especially if you're looking at papers all the time trying to read them... ;)
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