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Japanese Reference Sources

Kodansha's Furigana English-Japanese Dictionary: The Essential Dictionary for all Students of Japanese
Call Number: R 495.632 F97ke
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture
Call Number: R 306.0952 En1b

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New in Japanese

Here are the latest additions to Oesterle Library's Japanese language collection. Click on the title of the book for more information.

The Japanese mind: understanding contemporary Japanese culture - Edited by Roger J. Davies & Osamu Ikeno
Call Number: 952.033 J27d
Offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture. Readers will gain a clear understanding of what really makes the Japanese, and their society, tick.
Integrated approach to intermediate Japanese - Akira Miura
Call Number: 495.6 M69i text
ISBN/ISSN: 4789013073
A guide to reading and writing Japanese: a comprehensive guide to the Japanese writing system - Florence Sakade
Call Number: 495.682421 Sa2g 3 ed
This thoroughly revised edition of a bestselling learning and reference work incorporates the changes made in 1981 to the set of General Use characters and is accessible for beginning and intermediate students of Japanese. Diagrams.
Ferris wheel: 101 modern contemporary tanka - selected by Kozue Uzawa
Call Number: 895.6144 F41u
Japanese poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries in English and Japanese (both in vernacular and roman characters).