Japanese Essential Dictionary: All the Words You Need, Every Day

The Japanese-English side is 223 pages long. At around 40 entries per page, this dictionary has around 9000 entries at most, which should be fine for basic queries. Words are ordered alphabetically according to their romanization, so this side of the dictionary could only ever be useful if you already know the pronunciation of a Japanese word. This could happen if you encounter a word while hearing Japanese speech, or if you are a Japanese speaker looking for an equivalent in English. If you need to read Japanese, this dictionary won't be as helpful, unless the word you encounter is written in kana, if someone can provide the pronunciation, or if you know kanji well enough that you can guess the pronunciation (though at that point you probably wouldn't be using this dictionary). The English-Japanese side is 206 pages long. At around 40 entries per page, this dictionary has around 8000 entries at most, which, again, should be fine for basic queries. Entries and example phrases seem to be focused on practical needs. Words such as bank, bed, booking, breakfast, bus, card, child, disabled, dish, flight, hospital, hotel, insurance, passport, phone, photo, repair, room, ticket and wheelchair have lots of examples and serve as a phrasebook of sorts. I can see this dictionary as a useful companion when travelling in Japan. However, if you want to read newspapers or literature in Japanese, this is definitely not the one, because of its limited vocabulary and lack of a mechanism to lookup kanji. Yet, because of its very limitations, I could see this dictionary being useful as a vocabulary list of sorts, especially in the initial stages of learning either language.

It is a good dictionary for those who want to understand japanese. It also has the pronunciation beside each word which is useful for speaking.

It has translations in English to Japanese. Pretty concise book for all the essential words you'll need. Would recommend owning a physical copy over just using online dictionaries, it's another tool in your toolkit of learning Japanese!

Great Japanese dictionary, helped a lot during my exams and had great points. would be great for tourist heading to japan

I received the dictionary, and it was in good condition.