Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 6 or 10 with grade of C or better or Japanese placement test. Not open to students with credit for course 100A or who have learned, from whatever source, enough Japanese to qualify for more advanced courses. May be taken concurrently with course 100A. Development of overall competency in reading advanced-level Japanese materials. Instruction in understanding grammar and practical expressions, as well as expansion of "kanji" and vocabulary to achieve higher ability in comprehension of written materials in Japanese. Translations from Japanese to English, as well as from English to Japanese. P/NP or letter grading.