This is an essential study tool for students seeking to learn Japanese and dramatically improve their ability to read and write kanji and kana.

This classic, best-selling learning and reference work, trusted by beginning and intermediate students of Japanese is the best way to learn kanji and kana, and is now being offered as a fourth, thoroughly revised and up-to-date edition.

Having a knowledge of the full set of General Use characters is the key to mastering everyday Japanese and will allow students to read and write Japanese up to the level of a typical Japanese newspaper with ease and confidence.

Key features of this revised edition include:
●The most recent changes prescribed by the Japanese Ministry of Education.
●Covers all the 2,136 characters in the 'General Use' / Joyo Kanji set.
●Special codes indicate the kanji required for the JLPT and AP exams.
●Full range of Japanese character readings and English definitions
●Stroke counts, stroke-order diagrams, and compounds.
●Essential Japanese characters are presented according to the new arrangement by grade, based on their frequency of usage rather than their complexity.
●Numerous examples are given of the kanji compounds and derivatives used to form everyday words in Japanese.