When a visitor asks why shoes come off at the door, or how the school year works, or what a typhoon season actually means for daily life, you need more than vocabulary. You need the facts and the phrasing together. This revised handbook gives you both, covering the everyday Japan that guidebooks leave out.
Across 285 pages the book moves through three areas. The first looks at how people live, with sections on family, housing and education. The second turns to culture, taking in the Japanese language, the performing and fine arts, and popular entertainment. The third covers the country itself: landforms, population, climate and natural disasters. Each topic is presented so you can explain it to someone who has no background in Japan at all.
It was written for working interpreters and for anyone starting out, and it serves equally well if you are hosting visitors, studying abroad, or traveling and find yourself fielding questions about home. The English is practical rather than literary, the kind you can actually use in conversation.
Published by ALC. Revised edition, 2014.
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