Japanese Street Slang: Completely Revised and Updated

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"Essential Japanese you won't find in any dictionary" "Here s the Japanese you won t find in any dictionary but that is essential for anyone who wants to navigate Japanese street culture. Japanese Street Slang paints an uncensored panorama of the rich body of forbidden Japanese, analyzing the more private, guarded secrets of modern Japanese speech to present realistic portraits of men and women from different walks of contemporary Japanese life. Completely updated with current slang and swear words, this book is a fascinating guide to the language you ll hear in the real Japan. Witty mini-essays trace the fascinating origins of many expressions and rollicking example sentences reveal just how and where they may be heard."

"Peter Constantine is an award-winning literary translator and a recipient of the PEN Tranlsation Prize. He is also the author of Japan s Sex Trade and Japanese Slang Uncensored."

"Kakkoii (Cool) is a good word to describe this book. Constantine's painstaking research has produced a collection of words and phrases in the Japanese language used by everyone from teenagers to criminals to members of mainstream Japanese society when choosing to not be quite so stereotypically polite. Part academic treatise, part introduction to the colloquial side of the Japanese language, Japanese Street Slang offers something for linguists and Japanophiles alike."-Elephant Journal