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Cover of Japan's Jidai Volume 1: The Jōmon & Yayoi Periods Inside the book: the start of the 縄文時代 essay, with QR codes for normal and slow audio above a photo of a 土偶 clay figure Inside the book: the sentence シカやイノシシ、ウサギなどの小さな動物を獲ったり、魚や貝を採取して食料にしていました。 with furigana and word notes Inside the book: the sentence これは仮説で、本当かどうかはわかりません。 with word notes and a grammar note explaining かどうか Inside the book: a photo of 縄文 pottery, with its caption Inside the book: the 弥生時代 essay in Japanese only, with no furigana Inside the book: the start of the English translation of the 縄文時代 essay Inside the book: the vocabulary cheat sheet that comes with the book: 306 words from both essays, sorted by JLPT level
Cover of Japan's Jidai Volume 1: The Jōmon & Yayoi Periods
Inside the book: the start of the 縄文時代 essay, with QR codes for normal and slow audio above a photo of a 土偶 clay figure
Inside the book: the sentence シカやイノシシ、ウサギなどの小さな動物を獲ったり、魚や貝を採取して食料にしていました。 with furigana and word notes
Inside the book: the sentence これは仮説で、本当かどうかはわかりません。 with word notes and a grammar note explaining かどうか
Inside the book: a photo of 縄文 pottery, with its caption
Inside the book: the 弥生時代 essay in Japanese only, with no furigana
Inside the book: the start of the English translation of the 縄文時代 essay
Inside the book: the vocabulary cheat sheet that comes with the book: 306 words from both essays, sorted by JLPT level

Japan's Jidai Volume 1: The Jōmon & Yayoi Periods [eBook + Audio + App]

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Where Japan begins: the Jōmon and Yayoi periods.

In Japanese with furigana, glossed line by line, with an English translation and native audio.

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