Introduction Since its publication in 1998, it is a Japanese sentence pattern dictionary, a long-awaited English translation version that has been popular as a bilingual dictionary for Japanese teachers and Japanese learners. A wonderful explanation of overwhelming number of sentence patterns of about 3000 with diverse example sentences. Also for Japanese Language Proficiency Test. · It contains about 3000 sentence patterns. · Prepare as many examples as possible so that you can understand usage properly. · Structure of sentence pattern · Usage scene · Complete explanation such as distinction between synonyms and similar expressions. · Present misuse examples as necessary so that you can pay attention to mistakes easily. · I took up many expressions peculiar to the speech, such as "っ け" and "つこない". · The example sentence is translated into total ruby, and the commentary is attached with the whole translation. · It is convenient for searching with three kinds of indexes, "Japanese alphabetical index", "Successive reverse index", "Semantic / Functional index".