Yougisha

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Yougisha

About Yougisha

“Yougisha” is a Blue Sea Wordbook for the original Japanese book 容疑者Xの献身, which is described in detail below.

Bibliographic data for the Blue Sea Wordbook “Yougisha” is as follows.

Many mid-level and upper-level vocabulary entries are given. Low level vocabulary may be excluded.

Most adverbs are excluded.

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Wordbook Format

The wordbook is an eBook (epub) that can be opened with a reader app. Typical eBook readers include the Books app for iOS devices and the Google Play Books app on Android devices.

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About the Original Japanese Book 「容疑者Xの献身」

The user must buy the corresponding original Japanese book separately.

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Bibliographic data for the original Japanese book is as follows.

The star rating is decided by Blue Sea Press based on the factors such as interest, literary quality, and suitability for a second language learner. To better understand why the rating was given, see the review below.

An older Japanese book may be available only as a used book. However, a popular Japanese book may have been reprinted or published in a different version.

For an explanation of how to use the wordbook with a different version of the original Japanese book, see the section on this topic at Blue Sea Wordbooks.

Review of the Original Japanese Book 「容疑者Xの献身」

The following review is by Todd Adkisson. He is also the editor of the Blue Sea Wordbook “Yougisha”.

Genre

This is an adult mystery novel just like you would see in any other language.

The good-guys (police) must solve a crime. The bad-guys must try to get away.

The reader is left with the task of trying to guess the result before it is revealed. In this case, that is a very tough assignment.

Level

This is definitely an adult level book. However, it is an amazing relief to see Higashino at his best in using the common Japanese language to tell an amazing story.

Why amazing?

Because so many Japanese authors try to make their stories stand out by using extreme language, non-standard Japanese. Those other authors use tricks like 同訓異字 (doukun iji) so as to provide common words in difficult-to-remember kanji.

Higashino doesn’t do that. He doesn’t need to. He tells a fantastic story in regular Nihongo.

And that makes his book a joy to read.

Synopsis

A young math teacher lives in an apartment and hears a commotion at a neighboring residence. This leads to communication between the teacher and his neighbor.

Unfortunately for all involved, a person has been killed, and so decisions must be made.

The police eventually find a body and start to investigate the crime. They call in a respected professor who has a knack for finding evidence when it seems there is none.

In a twist, the professor and the math teacher are old friends from college days.

It takes quite a lot of time, but the professor finally processes enough clues to determine what happened. End of story.

Style

As mentioned above, Higashino is a great writer. The prose in Nihongo is wonderful to read.

He has an uncanny ability to let the reader figure out the main direction of the story while hiding enough that reader wishes he or she could have seen through the critical details.

While this is a great book, the ending adds a little melodrama that the story does not necessarily need, although it fits with certain cultural tendencies.

Using the Blue Sea Wordbook

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