This is the first book devoted to exploring issues of learning written Japanese, focusing on the challenges the writing system poses for the second language lea

Provides all the information needed for mastery of the basic characters (kanji) and the syllables

This comprehensive book helps you learn the 92 basic Kana characters and 2,136 standard Kanji characters. Complete, compact and authoritative--this Japanese lan

Put simply, practice is the most effective method of mastering written Japanese. The large, open format of Writing Japanese Hiragana invites the student to pick

This book deals chronologically with the history of writing in Japan, a subject which spans a period of 2,000 years, beginning with the transmission of writing