Read real Japanese today.
Four short stories in Japanese for beginners.
Help is provided.
Read four short stories in real, not textbook, Japanese.
First, a few Japanese sentences are shown. Next, there is a short glossary of the Japanese and the English meanings. Finally, the English sentences are given. You can easily go between reading the Japanese with help and reading the full Japanese text.
The first two stories are familiar tales by Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea and The Emperor's New Clothes. These stories were translated into Japanese by Masao Kusuyama. The next story is Tsue the Mouse by the Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa. The last and longest story is The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe.
