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Resources for A Level Japanese
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Course Books

Reading Resources
thObento Supreme [4 edition]
ISBN: 9780170198271  10323
Author(s): Kyoko Kusumoto, Ayako Lyons, Jacqueline Brown
Anne fisher, Jean Swinyard
Publisher: Nelson Cengage learning, 2013
できる日本語 初中級
ISBN: 9784757420847  10439
Author:できる日本語教材開発プロジェクト
Publisher:アルク, 2011
学ぼう！にほんご初級２・初中級
ISBN: 9784883244010, 9784883244140  8869, 8873
Author:日本語教育開発委員会
Publisher:専門教育出版, 2009-10
Genki 2 [2nd edition]
ISBN: 9784789014434  9267
Author(s): Eri Banno, Yutaka Ohno, Yoko Ikeda, 他
Publisher: The Japan Times, 2011
Mirai 5 & 6 [2nd edition]
ISBN: 0733970664 (MIRAI 5), 0733969011 (MIRAI 6) 8068, 8056

Author(s): Meg Evans, Yoko Masano, Ikuo Kawakami, Setsuko
Taniguchi Publisher: Pearson Education, 2006
みんなの日本語 初級Ⅱ第二版
ISBN: 9784883196463  9762
Author(s): 3A Network
Publisher: 3A Network, 2013
rdJapanese for Busy People 2 & 3 [3 edition]
ISBN: 9784770030108 (Vol. 2), 9784770030115 (Vol. 3)
 7379, 7788

Author(s): Association for Japanese-Language Teaching
Publisher: Kodansha International, 2007
ドラえもんのどこでも日本語
ISBN: 9784095101347  5143
Author(s): 當作靖彦, 他
Publisher: 小学館, 2009

More Chikara for Reading – もっと 読む力 (online resource)
Author(s): Michiyo Kato, Shoko Middleton, Sachiko Yamaguchi
2012 (downloadable fromwww.jpf.org.uk/language/teaching_resources.php#as)Let’s Read Japanese ブルックス文庫
Level 1, Vol. 1 (A1)
ISBN: 9780992929947
Level 2, Vol. 1 (A2-1) ISBN: 9780992929909  10002
Level 2, Vol. 2 (A2-2) ISBN: 9780992929916  10003
Author(s): Irene Hill, Suzuko Anai, 他
Publisher: Oxford Brookes University, 2013
レベル別日本語多読ライブラリー : にほんご よむよむ文庫 レベル3 & 4  7193
Author(s): NPO houjin nihongo tadoku kenkyuukai
Publisher: ASK Press, 2006
みんなの日本語初級Ⅱ 初級で読めるトピック25
ISBN:4883191850  6537
Authors: Akiko Makino, Sachiko Sawada, Akemi Shigekawa, Yone
Tanaka, Mariko Mizuno
Publisher: 3A, 2001
読解をはじめるあなたへ: 初級から中級への橋渡しシリーズ④
ISBN: 9784893588135  9280
Author(s): 日本語教育研究所
Publisher: 凡人社, 2011 （第3版）
読むトレーニング 基礎編 改訂版
ISBN:9784883195435  10185
Author(s): 三上京子・和栗雅子・山形美保子・青木俊憲
Publisher: 3A Network, 2010
留学生のための読解トレーニング
ISBN:9784893587800  10393
Author(s): 石黒圭・熊田道子・筒井千絵・Olga Pokrovska
Publisher: 凡人社, 2011
テーマ別 中級までに学ぶ日本語 初中級ブリッジ教材
ISBN:9784327384579  10036
Author(s): 松田浩志・亀田美保
Publisher: 研究社, 2011

Resources for A Level Japanese (cont. from overleaf)

Reading Resources (cont.)

Kanji

たのしい読み物55 初級＆初中級 CD2枚付
ISBN:9784757422773  10437
Author(s):できる日本語教材開発プロジェクト
Publisher: アルク, 2013

Basic Kanji Book Volume 1 & 2
ISBN: 4893580914 (Vol.1), 4893581198 (Vol.2)  1935, 835
Author: Chieko Kano et al
Publisher: 凡人社, 1990-1991

初・中級学習者向け日本語教材: 日本文化を読む
ISBN:9784757422988  10343
Author(s): 京都日本語教育センター, 2013
Publisher: アルク, 2013

The Key to Kanji: a visual history of 1100 Characters
ISBN: 9780887277368  8366Author: Noriko Kurosawa Williams
Publisher: Cheng & Tsui, 2010

マンガ「坊っちゃん」
ISBN:9784843335260  9162
Authors: Soseki Natsume, Joan E Ericson
Publisher ゆまに書房, 2011

漢字たまご 初中級
ISBN: 9784893588326  10354
Author: 嶋田和子監修 有山優樹他
Publisher: 凡人社, 2013

やさしく読める小学生の時事問題 (改訂新版)
ISBN:9784840304382  9286
Author(s):日能研, 2011

ストーリーで覚える漢字Ⅰ, Ⅱ
ISBN: 9784893588326, 9784874244029  7807,8624
Authors: ボイクマン総子 渡辺洋子
Publisher: くろしお出版, 2010

新聞で学ぶ日本語「改訂版」CD付
ISBN: 9784789012829  8662
Authors: Osamu Mizutani, Nobuko Mizutani
Publisher: The Japan Times, 2011.
季節で学ぶ日本語 新装版
ISBN: 9784757413559  8727
Author(s):石塚京子・市瀬俊介・寺田和子・堀越和男 他
Publisher: ALC, 2008

KANJI LOOK AND LEARN
ISBN: 9784789013499  8195, 8196
Authors: 坂野永理、池田庸子ほか
Publisher: The Japan Times, 2009
初級が終わったら始めよう：日本語漢字トレーニングISBN: 978-4-87217-794-797  9376
Authors: 松浦真理子ほか
Publisher: アスク出版, 2011

日本タテヨコ : 和英対訳 = Japan as it is : a bilingual guideISBN: 9784053012807  7913
Publisher: Gakken, 2004
Read Real Japanese (Essays) with CD
ISBN: 9784770030573  8036
Edited by Janet Ashby
Publisher: Kodansha Int’l, 2008

Dictionaries
A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
ISBN: 4789004546  2461
Author: Seiichi Makino et al
Publisher: The Japan Times, 1989
Oxford Beginner’s Japanese Dictionary
ISBN: 0-19-929852-1  10898
Author: Jonathan Bunt, Gillian Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

Resources for A Level Japanese (cont. from overleaf)

Skill Based Activities

A Level Set Texts

楽しく聞こう2  2259
Skills: Listening
Author(s): Bunka Institute of Language
Publisher: 凡人社, 2004

どんどん読めるいろいろな話
ISBN: 4838603681  2331
Author(s): 秋元美晴・糸川優 編著
Publisher: 武蔵野書院, 1991

毎日の聞きとり50日(下) : 初級日本語聴解練習Skills: Listening
ISBN: 9784893587534  8485
Author(s): Yukie Miyagi et al
Publisher: 凡人社, 2010

窓際のトットちゃん
ISBN: 978-4-06-293212-7  10896
Author(s): 黒柳徹子
Publisher: 講談社文庫, 2015

中級へ行こう 日本語の文型と表現59 CD付Skills: listening , Reading, Writing
ISBN: 9784883193271  10430
Author(s): 平井悦子,三輪さち子
Publisher: 3A, 2004
日本語で挑戦!スピーチ&ディスカッション
中級/もっと中級
Skills: Speaking , Reading, Writing
ISBN: 9784893588449, 9784893588449  9589, 10336
Author(s): 黒崎典子編著, 石塚久与
Publisher: 凡人社, 2012-13
日本を話そう : 15のテーマで学ぶ日本事情 [第3版]
Skills: Speaking, Reading, Writing
ISBN: 4789010635  8657
Author(s): Nippon Steel Human Resources Development andJapan College of Foreign Languages
Publisher: The Japan Times, 2001にほんご日記ノート
Skills: Writing, Reading
ISBN: 9784757415553  9636
Author: 長谷川頼子
Publisher: ARK, 2010
日本語表現の教室 中級
Skills: Writing, Reading
ISBN: 4772260234  7121
Author:倉八順子
Publisher:古今書院, 2005にほんご作文の方法 (改訂版)
Skills: Writing, Reading
ISBN:4808606526  7132（1994年版）
Author(s):佐藤政光、田中幸子、戸村佳代ほか
Publisher:第三書房, 2004
作文とスピーチのレッスン 初級から中級へ
Skills: Writing, Speaking
ISBN: 9784757415553  6244
Author: 長谷川頼子
Publisher: ARK, 1998

キッチン
ISBN: 978-4-04-180008-9  10897
Author(s): 吉本ばなな
Publisher: 角川文庫, 2016

A Level Further Resources
DVDで学ぶ日本語 : エリンが挑戦！ にほんごできますVol.2 & 3  7501, 7523
ISBN: 9784893586254 (Vol. 2), 9784893586261 (Vol. 3)
Author(s): 国際交流基金
Publisher: 凡人社, 2007https://www.erin.ne.jp/jp/
まるごと 日本のことばと文化 初中級（A2/B1）
ISBN: 978-4-384-05758-4  10834
Author(s): 国際交流基金 編著
Publisher: 三修社, 2015
https://www.marugoto.org/index.html
KCよむよむAuthors: 国際交流基金関西国際センター
http://jfkc.jp/clip/yomyom
NHK NEWS WEB EASY
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/
Rajakumar Sensei's Japanese Page
http://japanese4schools.co.uk/ibas/
This website features the Japanese workbooks created by Anne
Rajakumar, the Head of Japanese at Hockerill Anglo-European
College. These workbooks cover the A level syllabus and come in a
multimedia version which can be used by students to link to theaccompanying video tutorials, and a pdf version, which can bedownloaded, printed and used by students to write in.