A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice is designed for intermediate to advanced learners of Japanese and presents twenty-five authentic texts taken from a wide range of media and literary sources, which promote a deeper understanding of Japan among readers. The book is divided into ten genre-based chapters, allowing the learner to focus on the textual features relevant to that genre.

Key features include:

• Selected texts covering topics related to Japanese language, society and culture encountered in the Japanese media, from news reports to interviews, book reviews, short stories and editorials.
• Word lists for challenging vocabulary and kanji provided throughout to aid comprehension and learning.
• Pre-reading activities to enable familiarity with the topic, the text’s background and words to be encountered in the reading passages.
• Short grammar explanations of essential structures.
• Questions to help comprehension, raise awareness of genre features, promote critical reading, and to encourage the reader to think more deeply about the content.
• Opportunities to write passages, utilizing what has been learned by reading the text.
• Vocabulary and grammar lists at the back of the book.