Modern diplomacy is settled through high-stakes games of mahjong in this cult classic starring a fictionalized Prime Minister Junichirō Koizumi. First serialized in Kindai Mahjong magazines, the 16-volume series pits Koizumi against caricatured world leaders including George W. Bush, Kim Jong-il, Vladimir Putin, Margaret Thatcher, and others. (Source: Mahjong Pros) Included one-shots: Volume 3: Ritz season.1 Volume 4: Oretachi Kenou Shineitai Volume 11: Ritz season.2 Volume 12: Lacross Shoujo Katagiri Ririn-san wa Totemo Moteru Volume 13: Ritz season.3
Japanese study overview
Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku is a Japanese manga of 153,507 characters, with 10,362 unique words and 1,837 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 10,362 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 私I×267
- 麻雀mahjong×234
- 事thing×200
- 牌medal×188
- 小泉Oizumi×167
- 言うto say×167
- 今now×127
- 話counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.×118
- 第prefix for forming ordinal numbers×116
- 牌tile×106
- 力strength×104
- 手hand×99
- 配牌starting tiles×58
- 神々の黄昏Twilight of the Gods (music drama by Richard Wagner)×46
- 主席head×43
- 沖波offshore wave×34
- 諸島archipelago×32
- 江青Jiang Qing (1915-1991)×32
- 閣Kaku×31
- 盲blindness×30