📚 Japanese Language

Books with japanese language on their catalogue record, first published between 1872 and 2023, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject japanese language in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 18,839 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Japanese stage-step course	Wako Tawa	2009	27
	A guide to reading & writing Japanese	坂出 フローレンス	1959	19
	A Japanese-English and English-Japanese dictionary	James Curtis Hepburn	1872	15
	Yookoso!	Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku	1993	15
	Irohaji ruishō	Tadakane Tachibana	1928	13
	Remembering the Kanji I	James W. Heisig	1985	13
	Complete Japanese	Helen Gilhooly	2010	13
	Kōjien	Shinmura, Izuru	1955	12
	1st Thousand Words Japanese	Heather Amery	1994	12
	Beginners' dictionary of Chinese-Japanese characters	Arthur Rose-Innes	1927	11
	Handbook of Japanese grammar	Harold Gould Henderson	1945	11
	Mirai	Meg Evans	1995	11
	Japanese for Busy People III	AJALT	1997	9
	Japanese conversation-grammar	Hermann Plaut	1905	8
	Dai Kan-Wa jiten	Morohashi, Tetsuji	1955	8
	Japanese all the way	Hiroko Storm	1996	8
	Learn Japanese	Young, John	1963	7
	A history of the Japanese language	Bjarke Frellesvig	2010	7
	Kanji & kana =	Wolfgang Hadamitzky	1981	6
	Learn Japanese	John Young	2023	6
	Read Japanese today	Len Walsh	1969	5
	Japanese made easy	Tazuko Ajiro Monane	1979	5
	Japanese for busy people	Association for Japanese-Language Teaching.	1984	5
	Learn Japanese	John Young	1985	5
	Japanese in 10 minutes a day	Kristine Kershul	1987	5
	501 Japanese verbs	Roland A. Lange	1988	5
	An Introduction to Japanese linguistics	Natsuko Tsujimura	1996	5
	The Kodansha Kanji Learners Dictionary (Japanese for Busy People)	Jack Halpern	1999	5
	Japanese For Young People II	AJALT	1999	5
	Japanese for dummies	Eriko Sato	2002	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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