Book excerpt: This is a travel sized, concise Japanese to English and English to Japanese dictionary Concise practical and reliable, the Basic Japanese Conversation Dictionary provides the student, tourist and businessman with a useful key to the modern colloquial language. It includes: Over 6,000 of the most commonly used Japanese and English words. Listings of the colloquial forms of Japanese words—the forms you most often encounter in daily conversation. Entries are given in romanized form as well in Japanese script. Includes writing charts for the various Japanese syllabaries.