The sponsors of the popular website japaneseaudiolessons.com have prepared this book to help English-speaking students learn to read in Japanese.  It includes a Japanese Reader with more than 4,200 authentic Japanese sentences for reading practice.  These sentences use only hiragana, katakana and 608 "target" kanji, and they are written in a large clear font.  Romaji equivalents and translations are printed in very small text in a column adjacent to the Japanese text, making it possible for students to get ready feedback as they read but also allowing them to ignore the...