Japanese Workbook Vol.5

About this book

THE CLIMB COMPLETE — 300 NEW KANJI, 600 NEW WORDS, AND 1,220 KANJI IN TOTAL.

Finished Vol.1 through Vol.4? This is your Vol.5 — with zero overlap. Every kanji and every word in this book is new, and with it the five volumes together train 1,220 kanji and 3,000 words.

Inside: 300 kanji for JLPT N1 (the characters taught for N1 across the major textbooks and courses), each on its own study page with a step-by-step stroke-order build-up, a numbered stroke diagram, an example compound — and four full rows of practice squares (trace, copy, then write from memory). Then 600 new words in 20 themes — law, justice and rights, politics and diplomacy, the economy and markets, academia and research, philosophy and religion, literature and rhetoric, psychology, society and welfare, science and space, medicine, environment and disasters, technology and digital society, history and heritage, the arts, work and negotiation, core N1 verbs, advanced adjectives, the connectives of written Japanese, and idioms and proverbs — every word with a reading, romaji, meaning, a natural example sentence, and space to write it three times.

Plus 12 new culture readings — a fourth set. Read about the light of a town bookshop, an evening at the public bath, a morning market, a grandfather's study, a town where dialect lives, an old craftsman and a young apprentice, cherry blossoms and flower rafts, the blessings and worries of the rainy season, behind the scenes of Noh, the puppeteers of Bunraku, the Shikoku pilgrim's road, and the last graduation at a mountain branch school — in real N1-level Japanese, with a full English translation, key words and questions on every reading.

18,000+ guided practice squares. Review quizzes close every part, with a full answer key and a kanji index at the back. A 12-week study plan in the front matter (25 kanji, 50 words and one reading a week) takes you through the whole book. Stroke order for all 300 kanji verified character-by-character against the KanjiVG database.

Inside: 300 kanji study pages · 600 words with example sentences · 12 culture readings (Japanese + translation + questions) · quizzes and answer key · 12-week plan.