Main features
The Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary is primarily intented for two types of English-speaking users: those who have no knowledge of Japanese and those who already have some knowledge of the language but still need a dictionary in which all Japanese words and phrases are explained from the standpoint of English and in English grammatical terms. It should also prove indidpendable to anyone who needs a bilingual dictionary that presents the basic vocabulary of both languages in an accessible, easy to use format.
This dictionary includes not only those essential words and idiomatic phrases that are most often used in daily conversation in Japan but also words and expressions that appear frequently in newspapers and magazines. And since the Japanese written forms of Japanese words are given after the romanized form on first mention within an entry, the dictionary will also serve as an aid to those who are learning to read and write thr language. However, because the romanized forms always appear first, the user does not have to know the Jaoanese writing system to look up a word or pinpoint a definition.