Japanese Street Slang: Completely Revised and Updated

You can deduce from the comments on here that the writing style of this work (not to mention the information as well) will vary depending on the edition you're reading. The currently marketed 2011 edition features rather clearcut, info-rich compositions arranged in alphabetical order by big slang key words (ex. flip to "imo" ("hick/redneck"), or "chikan" (pervert) for an explanation on the slang term, example sentences, its derivatives and similar slang). The amount of new words/information one will be be encountering will probably be somewhat intense, which makes the book an ideal resource to refer to when the time is necessary, rather than an exhaustive read-through. The most glaring flaw here is its text format of strictly romaji; no kanji or kana use. Romaji is an early learning aid at best, one that is probably going to be long abandoned by the more intermediate/advanced Japanese learner who decides to pick up this work. For myself, there were even times that trying to find the corresponding kanji for some of the slang terms turned into a timely google search hunt, which could have been remedied by just providing the reader with the original characters.The romaji hassle aside, the degree of information provided in these pages, as well as pulling no punches on any of the seedy topics, no matter how vulgar, make this a worthy purchase.

Although this was bought as a present for someone when i had a quick flip it seemed interesting, well organised and easy to understand.

I got this book thinking it a lot of stuff like "Whatsup?" and similar to that. Well, i got the book, so excited, and i read in it, probably 5 pages in the whole book was stuff you will see everyday, and the rest of the book was about sex terms. It was a bit too PG-13. This is a great book if you need a hooker or something. Less likely you will use these words everyday in Japan. It might be good, if you are just looking forward to extending your Japanese vocabulary, but otherwise, i would consider getting "Dirty Japanese: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!""this is probably the best slang book you can get. (:

So I open the book and start reading... Most of the slang words are EXTREMELY vulgur, and there are no cuss words. (I bought this product so that if I ever go to Japan, I'll know when people are cussing me out or calling me rude things that the beginner's book wouldn't have taught me.) Almost all the terms are very sexual and just... Disgusting. So if you want to know that kind of stuff, then this book is for you, but if you're like me and just wanting to know when someone is being rude to you, don't buy it!

My Japanese friends laughed very hard as they told me 80% of this book contained words they had never heard of, and even speculated were made up.This book contains outdated or outright incorrect Japanese, and should not be picked up by anybody hoping to speak actual, real Japanese. Ever.

Nouvelle édition mise à jour de cet ouvrage de référence sur la langue populaire et argotique japonaise contemporaine, prenant en compte les récentes évolutions linguistiques au Japon. Gros défaut du livre cependant : le japonais y est présenté en transcription.