Japanese essay structure

This book is a good guide for writing essays/papers in Japanese. It offers help with essay structure, from the first paragraph right through to the summary. It also teaches correct punctuation and quotation use, in addition to the construction of explanations.

Basic Word Order The dog chased the cat. Subject Verb Object

We now know three very important rules relating to Japanese sentence structure: 1 The particle “wa” 「は」 identifies the topic of a sentence 2 The verb comes at the end of the sentence 3 The articles “a”, “an” and “the” do not exist in Japanese

The topic is basically the thing that is being talked about in that sentence, and usually appears near the beginning. In our examples above, the things that are being talked about are “I”, “this”, and “the car”, respectively, so the topics of these sentences in Japanese are “watashi”, kore” and “kuruma” .