Pocket Kenkyusha Japanese Dictionary

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A counterweight to the review below... (0/0 people found this helpful)

This is actually a very useful dictionary, as long as you are looking for (i) a Japanese-English-Japanese dictionary and (ii) don't mind that it doesn't fit in your pocket.

It has the following advantages:
(a) you will be hard pressed to find a more comprehensive dictionary on the UK market,
(b) it has far more usage examples than the Random House dictionary, and
(c) pitch accents are given (very useful for correct pronunciation).

I have collected quite a few Japanese dictionaries over the years and the Pocket Kenkyusha still tends to be my first port of call. It is a good compromise between size and detail. I agree that a few words are inexplicably omitted but, overall, I recommend it highly.

A major disappointment! (2/2 people found this helpful)

Don't be fooled by the word 'Pocket' in the title. This dictionary is actually quite stocky, and perhaps it's just me, but I was thinking this is a 'Japanese-English' dictionary, however it's a 'Japanese-English-Japanese' dictionary, and it actually has about 1000 pages.

Again, don't be fooled. 1000 pages means about 45,000 entries, which is exactly how many entries Oxford's MINI dictionary actually has (and that one is actually quite small).

Not to mention that it's written in romaji, and somehow the font is really bad and hard to read! (Plus the text is really huge and annoying to look at)

Also, I compared the entries in this dictionary to my Collins GEM English-Japanese dictionary, to find that many important words are actually missing from this one (e.g. there is 'able', but not 'ability' , etc).

Please reconsider before buying this. If you need a small dictionary that contains both Japanese-English-Japanese entries, I recommend Random House's dictionary, as well as the Oxford Mini.

If you're actually looking for only a Japanese-English dictionary (as was I), I strongly suggest you go to www.amazon.co.jp (you can type ñŒžx - english-japanese dictionary) and find one there, because the English language publishers consider us stupid or something, and the dictionaries well, kind of suck.

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