Specialized Dictionaries

  • Aviation

    Ron Schei's resource designed to assist Japanese flight students studying in English-speaking countries (and possibly their instructors). (Original file from May 1996. Proof-read and corrected by Teijo Kaakinen in April 2001.)

    © Ron Schei's English/Japanese Aviation Dictionary.

  • Buddhism

    Chuck Muller's monumental (over 48,000 entries) Digital Dictionary of Buddhism. (August 2006)

    © Chuck Muller's Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (DDB).

  • Concrete

    Gururaj Rao's glossary of terms encountered in the course of translating tecnical reports mainly related to concrete stuctures. Some of the terms them have been supplied by clients, some rooted out from reliable dictionaries, and some from reports on the Internet. (October 1997)

  • Engineering

    Engineering and Science Technical Dictionary compiled by James Friend. (2000)

    © James Friend. (readme).

  • Environment

    Japanese-English Environmental Terminology Glossary is a one-stop dictionary for terms that frequently appear in Japanese environmental reports, environmental impact statements and other literature. As such, it is heavy on names of laws and organizations. It also lists a fair number of chemicals, but focuses on those that tend to occur in environmental reports. — Patrick Oblander (March 2003)

    © Patrick Oblander. (readme)

  • Finance

    Glossary of financial terms compiled by Kevin Seaver. (June 1997)

    © Kevin Seaver.

  • Geology

    Japanese English dictionary of gelogical terms compiled by Bruce Bain and Leslie Oberman. (May 1996)

    © Bruce Bain, Leslie Oberman.

  • Law

    The Standard Bilingual Dictionary of legal terminology from the Japanese Cabinet Secretariat website combined with the University of Washington glossary. (March 2009)

    © The Standard Bilingual Dictionary of legal terminology from the Japanese Cabinet Secretariat; The University of Washington glossary.

  • Linguistics

    Japanese/English Dictionary of Computational Linguistics. The list ranges from parts-of-speech to terms used in theoretical and computational linguistics. LINGDIC. (September 1998)

    © Francis Bond (LINGDIC)

  • Manufacture

    Glossary of Manufacturing in General, Molding, and Paper Manufacturing. (October 2003)

    (manufdic readme)

  • Business and Marketing

    Adam Rice's business & marketing glossary lists from the Honyaku WWW pages. (June 1997)

    © Adam Rice.

  • Life Science

    Japanese-English Life Science dictionary containing over 34,000 Japanese words frequently-used in trend Life Science articles. Lsd Project ((Life Science Dictionary Project) is supported by Grants-in-Aid from Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan. (January 1997)

    © Life Science Dictionary Project — Shuji Kaneko, Department of Pharmacology, Kyoto University.

  • River and Water Resources

    河川・水資源 日英用語集 (River and Water Resources Glossary) compiled by the 国際建設技術協会 (Infrastructure Development Institute Japan). (October 2004)

    © 国際建設技術協会 — Infrastructure Development Institute Japan (riverwater)

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