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Yutaka Ohno :k!l!fm

Chikako Shinagawa .fttJ11$-i-"

Kyoko Tokashiki ?IUJ~~$-i-"

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ISBN978-4- 7890-1440-3

Published by The Japan Times, Ltd.

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Illustrations: Noriko Udagawa and Reiko Maruyama

English translations and copyreading: 4M Associates, Inc., and Umes Corp.

Narrators: Miho Nagahori, Yumiko Muro, Tomoki Kusumi, Tsuyoshi Yokoyama,

and Kit Pancoast Nagamura

Recordings: TBS Service, Inc.

Typesetting: guild

Cover art and editorial design: Nakayama Design Office

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Printing: Tosha Printing Co., Ltd.

First edition: May 1999

Second edition: March 2011

8th printing: May 2012

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The Authors

January 2011

It is our hope that students of the language will find additional pleasure in learning

Japanese by using this new edition of zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBAGENKI.

The opinions of the teachers and students who have used GENKI have been a major

driving force in the preparation of this revised edition. We are truly grateful to those

who have provided this input. The authors would also like to express their sincere

appreciation to the following: Noriko Udagawa, our illustrator, whose work has

become a GENKI trademark; the staff of The Japan Times; and particularly to Chiaki

Sekido of the Publications Department of The Japan Times, who has worked tirelessly

with us on this project since its inception.

While retaining the ease-of-use quality for teachers, we have added new content

and revisions that reflect our experiences and the voices of those who have used the

text. The task of revision took two years to complete. We believe that this effort has

resulted in a book that instructors and students will find even easier to use and learn

from.

In 1999, our aim was to develop a textbook that teachers would find convenient

and helpful, and one that students could easily use. We thus wrote the book based

on a survey of students' needs and refined it through many test-teaching situations.

Originally meant as a text for foreign students studying in Japan, GENKI gained

popularity among those studying in other countries as well. As use increased, we

began to hear from those who wanted "more information on culture" and "audio

aids appended to the text." It's also been more than ten years since GENKI was

originally published, and the passage of time has required revisions to vocabulary

and expressions.

This is a revised edition of the textbook GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary

Japanese, which was published in 1999. Since it first came out, GENKI has become

widely used by teachers and students of Japanese and has gone through numerous

reprintings. Such wide acceptance led to the decision to publish this revised edition.

Preface

4

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