Japanese 111a: Advanced Japanese 
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Recommended Reference Works:
It is time for you to purchase a mid-size dictionary or two, and perhaps some other reference works. The following is a short list of what is available. It would be best to visit a Japanese bookstore, and to choose what you like.
Kindaichi: Meikai Nihongo akusento jiten (Tokyo: Sanseido, 1981).
Makino and Tsutsui: A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar (Tokyo: The Japan Times, 1989).
Masuda: New Japanese-English Dictionary (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1991).
Matsuda: English-Japanese Dictionary for the Central Reader (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1984).
Maynard: An Introduction to Japanese Grammar and Communication Strategies (Tokyo: The Japan Times, 1990).
McClain: Handbook of Modern Japanese Grammar (Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1981).
Nelson: Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Tokyo: Tuttle, 1962).
Spahn and Hadamitzky: Japanese Character Dictionary (Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 1989).
T. Iwasaki: Shorter Japanese-English Dictionary
T. Vance et. al.: Kodansha's Romanized Japanese-English Dictionary
and Kodansha's Pocket Romanized Japanese-English Dictionary
There are also many electronic dictionaries, which are easy to use, but rather costly ($200-500). They usually have English-Japanese, Japanese-English, and Japanese-Japanese dictionaries in one machine.
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