Everyone agrees that it is possible to learn to speak Japanese in a reasonable amount of time but no one has ever said that about reading & writing it. It is widely held that spoken & written Japanese require separate efforts by the student as if these two aspects were in fact distinct languages. A first step toward alleviating this situation was taken by Yasuko Mitamura in 1985 with the publication of Let's Learn Hiragana & Let's Learn Katakana which continue to help thousands of students every year to master these two forms of Japanese script. Now Let's Learn Kanji goes to the heart of the problem: the learning of kanji (i.e. Chinese characters as they are used in Japan). Not simply a brilliant exposition but also a workbook it teaches the student how to write the basic strokes how to put these together into full-fledged kanji & how kanji function in the context of example sentences. Progress is continually checked & the student is encouraged through quizzes & exercises. The result: 250 fundamental characters learned almost painlessly.