True Stories from Japan

True Stories from Japan

Real events, real people, real Japan — narrative non-fiction in graded form.

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About true stories from japan

True-story narratives bring a different kind of Japanese reading — real events, real places, the kind of language journalists and biographers use. These graded retellings of true Japanese stories give you a feel for the register of non-fiction without the difficulty of full native articles.

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350+ stories in the app

The free web library is a curated slice of the Shinobi app, which has 350+ unique graded stories with native audio, tap-to-translate, and SRS review.