Books and Magazines: 2006年1月アーカイブ

You might have a lot of questions about health insurance and health related matters.
What about when you have baby? What to do in an Emergency ?
This book will answer your questions.
日本の医療健康ハンドブック―Japan health handbook
メレデス・丸山, ルイーズ・清水, ナンシー・鶴巻

This is one of the series to introduce Japanese culture in English.
All the explanations are written in both English and Japanese.
For the people who wants to study Japanese culture and Japanese language, this is the ideal book.

英語で話す「日本の文化」
NHK国際局文化プロジェクト, 講談社, Don Kenny, ダン ケニー

If you have never visited traditional old house called "Machiya" yet or never heard of the word "Machiya", you can get some knowledge and feel like visiting Japan more than 100 years ago.
京の町家めぐり
蔵田 敏明, 柴田 佳彦

Now traditional houses are disappearing all over Japan.However, the hype is to visit or live in traditional houses in big cities including Kyoto city.This book gives advices and how to live in old houses.
京の町家に暮らす
別冊太陽編集部

This is a second edition of "Eijiro" series.
Now they have more than 1,300,000 words!!
If you find difficult Kanji on the web, you can search the words in this dictionary.

英辞郎 第二版
EDP

People volunteered their time on making this dictionary.
More than one million words are in it.
You will find the word you've been looking for long time!

100万語収録のスーパー英和・和英辞典「英辞郎」
EDP

Before to travel around Japan, it is a good idea to get some information on the place you visit. This book is one of the most famous guide books which gives you enough details of local info.


Lonely Planet Japan (Lonely Planet Japan)
Chris Rowthorn, Ray Bartlett, Justin Ellis

There are some big book stores in Osaka.
Try one of the following list.

Junku-do
Umeda
大阪市北区堂島1-6-20　堂島アバンザ1.2.3.F
Dojima Avanza Bld. 1F, 2F, 3F
Dojima 1-6-20, Kita-ku, Osaka
TEL 06-6343-8444

Namba
大阪市中央区難波千日前12-7
Y.E.S. Namba Bld. 1F, 2F, 3F
Namba Sennichimae 12-7, Osaka
TEL 06-6635-5330

Kinokuniya
Umeda
大阪府大阪市北区芝田1-1-3
Hankyu Sanbangai, Shibata 1-1-3, Kita-ku, Osaka
TEL 06-6372-5821

You can use Japanese part to search on Google map or other service to see actual map.

This is one of the series books to teach Japanese.
You can learn how to teach Japanese step by step.
This is vol 2.

みんなの日本語初級〈2〉教え方の手引き
スリーエーネットワーク

This is one of the series books to teach Japanese.
You can learn how to teach Japanese step by step.
This is vol 1.

みんなの日本語初級1 教え方の手引き
スリーエーネットワーク

This is one of the series books to learn Japanese.
For the Japanese beginners, this book is strongly recommended.
If you are Japanese teacher, this could be the first book to use as a textbook in your private lessons or classes.
This is vol 2.

みんなの日本語―初級2本冊
スリーエーネットワーク

This is one of the series book to learn Japanese.
For the Japanese beginners, this book is strongly recommended.
If you are Japanese teacher, this could be the first book to use as a textbook in your private lessons or classes.
This is vol 1.

みんなの日本語―初級1本冊
スリーエーネットワーク

This book is written in Japanese, but still you can enjoy the beauty of costumes of traditional Noh performance.
For the people who can read Japanese, this would be the best book for introduction to Noh performance.

一歩進めて能鑑賞 演目別にみる能装束
観世 喜正, 正田 夏子, 青木 信二

This book is written from an american point of view. He writes a lot of useful words list and could be used small and practical dictionary.

A Practical Guide to Living in Japan: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Settle in
Jarrell D. Sieff

When you start to live in Japan, you will have many questions and problems. This book will answer most of your questions and give you solutions.
Since this book is written in English and Japanese, it is an ideal book for japanese and english speaking couples.

日英対訳 日本で暮らす外国人のための生活マニュアル―役立つ情報とトラブル解決法〈2005/2006年版〉
移住労働者と連帯する全国ネットワーク, 移住連全国ネット=

Kansai Time Out is one of the most famous magazine for foreigners in Kansai.
Kansai Window provides very useful info including traditional culture.

You can read articles on web and also purchase it at big book stores, like Kinokuniya in Umeda.
You can also can get english newspaper at big book shops and Kiosks(small stand) nearby or in train and subway stations.
If you prefer to read online, you can read latest news here.
Asahi
Daily Yomiuri Online
Nikkei