Japanese New Dictionary

Author: Akira Matsumura, Masayuki Mihara
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features:
· Encyclopedic Dictionary Function -- Centered on modern and encyclopedic language, including political, cultural, current event terms, organization names, event names, work titles, and high-tech terms, totaling over 150,000 entries.
· Biographical Dictionary Function -- Covers all famous individuals in Japan and abroad, accompanied by concise life sketches.
· Geographical Dictionary Function -- Over 3,000 Japanese and foreign place names, annotated with natural, cultural, and economic geographical content.
· Acronym Dictionary Function -- Thousands of acronyms not found in general dictionaries.
· Japanese Kanji Dictionary Function -- Over 10,000 common Japanese kanji entries, including on'yomi and kun'yomi readings.
· Hundreds of Exquisite Illustrations -- Visually intuitive, enhancing the sensory understanding of word meanings.
Japanese Shinshitsuron is a new-generation language reference book edited by the renowned Japanese linguist and lexicographer, Professor Akira Matsumura, and published by the prestigious authority publisher, Shogakukan. Based on the second edition of Japan's large-scale national dictionary Daitorin, the book has been widely loved by Japanese readers since its release due to its extensive vocabulary, novelty, and practicality, and has been included in Japanese households as a book.
Japanese Shinshitsuron stands out in three key aspects:
1. It is the largest Japanese dictionary ever published in China. With over 150,000 entries, it includes a vast number of encyclopedic and new loanwords that are not found in general dictionaries, strongly reflecting the linguistic characteristics of Japanese. Especially, the inclusion and annotations of encyclopedic entries further highlight Japan's cultural features. Entries related to Japanese topics are extensively covered with particularly rich descriptions.
2. As a comprehensive dictionary, it provides detailed explanations of word meanings, making its total linguistic information volume and coverage unmatched by other dictionaries. The book is accompanied by over 550 exquisite illustrations, which complement purely textual explanations in describing objects, defining terms, and narrating events, enabling readers to deepen their intuitive understanding of word meanings and aid in comprehension.
3. It serves as both a language dictionary and a condensed encyclopedia. It includes tens of thousands of entries such as names of people, places, works, flora and fauna, products, organizations, events, and more. It extensively collects specialized terms and terminology from various disciplines, with medical and biological terms annotated with Latin names and chemical names like compounds listed with molecular formulas, providing readers with multidimensional knowledge. Therefore, we can say that this dictionary is an essential tool for reading and translating Japanese books, periodicals, and documents.
This dictionary is suitable for university faculty and students, general Japanese translators, diplomats, foreign affairs professionals, and experts on Japanese studies.