Samuel E. Martin: Basic Japanese Conversation Dictionary. English-Japanese Japanese-English

Listing over 6000 of the most commonly used Japanese and English words,this dictionary has the purely practical aim of providing the student, tourist, and businessman with a ready key to a large portion of the colloquial language. One of its distinctive features is that the Japanese words are given in the forms that appear most often in conversation. The Japane verb endings are given in theforms actually used in sentences. With almost no knowledge of grammar, tnerefore, one can make use of this vocabulary. The English-Japanese section also include Japanese characters in addition to romanization.
Finally, the writing charts and money-conversion tables will provide a valuable aid for the foreigner in Japan. The two syllabarie will enable him to read many of the signboards, menus, train directions,, etc. snd, if he wishes, to write such simple things as names, addresses, and post cards. The money-converion tables will save him the trouble of constantly calculating from Yen to Dollars and vice versa.