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Japanese Word List

English Word List

The intent of this online, visual, bilingual dictionary is to ease the transfer of information between the United States and Japan.  Please contact me if you have questions, additions, or comments about the dictionary.

The dictionary is intended for technical personel, practicing structural or bridge engineers, and faculty researchers.

My email address is: mcmullin@email.sjsu.edu

This project was started August 1, 1999.

The page was last updated April 4, 2000.

The page has been hit times since March 9,2000.

How to Use the Dictionary

  1. Choose the website from the left side of this screen in the language that you already know the meaning of the word.
  2. Search the upcoming list for the word that you want to translate.
  3. Click on the word in the list.  All words are hot buttons that will take you to a drawing of the object.
  4. Find the word on the drawing.  For each leader on the drawing, the English and Japanese meanings are given.  The Japanese word is written in romaji, kana, and kanji form when possible.

 

 

Help for Expanding the Dictionary

I am looking for possible expansion and improvement of the dictionary.  Please contact me if you know of other meanings for the words listed, we will try to include any and all corrections in future revisions.

In addition, I would be very interested to partner with bridge engineers who could provide additional languages, perhaps Spanish or Chinese may be a valuable addition.

 

Authors

The team that is developing this dictionary is:

Kurt McMullin, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering,              San Jose State University
Tadashi Ashimi, Managing Director, Konoike Construction Co., Osaka, Japan
Masao Fujisawa, Adviser, Hitachi Zosen Corporation,                   Osaka, Japan

 

Acknowledgements

Many of the drawings are from the book:

Koukyou no Gaiyou (Overview of Steel Bridges), published in April 1996 by the
Japan Association of Steel Bridge Construction
(in Japanese).

We the authors of this visual dictionary appreciate the assistance provided by the Association.

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