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Celebrating more than 100 monthly issues of Makoto: short Japanese stories with native audio, vocabulary, grammar explanations, and cultural notes. Approximately JLPT N5–N3. Perfect for beginner to intermediate learners of Japanese.

  • The complete milestone 100th issue: every article and story
  • Native-speaker audio, recorded by Yumi
  • Vocabulary and grammar help, with furigana
  • PDF, ePub, and MP3 sound files
  • Also reads and plays inside the free Makoto+ Japanese Explorer app
  • No credit card required

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From TheJapanesePage.com, TheJapanShop.com, and Makotoplus.com. Teaching Japanese online for 25+ years.

Want to see where it all began? Issue #1 is free too

Download our very first issue from 2018 below. No signup needed. It is fun to compare it with #100 and see how far Makoto has come.


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You get the full magazine as PDF, ePub, and Kindle files, plus all the MP3 sound files recorded by Yumi. Enjoy!

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TheJapanShop Customer Reviews

Welcome to Makoto, a digital magazine for learners of Japanese.

Whether you are just starting out or have a lot of experience under your obi, Makoto will surely please the lover of Japan and Japanese.

Enjoy articles on Japanese grammar, kanji, culture, haiku, and art. Each issue also includes two complete short stories with definitions, grammar explanations, and two MP3s of each story (normal speed and slower). One story is for beginners and one is for upper beginners to intermediates.

Yumi and I (Clay) hope you will enjoy this inaugural issue of Makoto. Please remember, the newer issues are bigger and better. Since launching 2018, we have added more content and value to each issue.


❝ Makoto is a great magazine for not only learning the japanese language, but it also features articles about japanese culture and food as well. Furthermore it holds lots of info about places of interest that one should visit when travelling in Japan. ❞

❝ As a complete beginner I found these books great on basic words and pronunciation. Loved the articles on the Japanese prefectures. ❞

❝ Learning any language in context is better than just using textbooks alone. ❞

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Each issue includes jokes (in Japanese), fun etymologies, grammar lessons, kanji practice, fun phrases, and, of course, a Japanese reader.

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Clay & Yumi

Two decades ago, we began TheJapanesePage.com, one of the internet's oldest and largest free Japanese instructional sites with hundreds of free articles for beginners of Japanese. We also run TheJapanShop.com, an online store that sells quality lessons and Japanese study materials like books, eBooks, videos, audios and articles which are helpful for learners of Japanese. We also have Makoto - a monthly e-zine for beginner to intermediate learners of Japanese. It is a digital magazine with all the good stuff not usually found in textbooks. It has articles on Japanese grammar, kanji, culture, and art. Each issue also includes two complete short stories with vocabulary, grammar explanations, and two sound files of each story (normal speed and slower).

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