This book has been written for first-time holiday visitors to Japan. The author, Peter Roberts, has spoken Japanese since age twenty-four and has written a series of 11 other holiday language books that have sold successfully internationally. This book follows the Roberts system for the rapid and easy learning of languages for holiday purposes. Vocabulary learning is restricted to about forty or so words that have been curated to fit together to create a flexible variety of hundreds of potential sentences. An important part of Peter's method is ensuring that the reader is provided with the phonetic pronunciation of every word introduced so that, even as a beginner, the student can speak the words with total confidence that they will be understood by any Japanese national. Rapid, easy learning, and confident, useful speaking are the keywords for this book.