Abstract:

The answer to the question of "What is the dictionary and how was it born?" hasbeen discussed up to now in lots of papers. In this study, the same question is discussed from a historical aspect and afterwards the initiator of Japanese education in Turkey and the dictionaries written in Japanese-Turkish and Turkish-Japanese are handled. When these dictionaries are evaluated, it can besaid for the dictionaries which have still publications in Turkey that they eitherhave a very limited vocabulary or are really lack of answering the needs of theirusers for most of them are designed as a pocket dictionary. By the widespread use of the internet in the recent years, the corpus databasesdeveloped both in Japanese and Turkish have become available for any user whowants to reach them. By introducing some of these databases in this study, it isexpected to shed a light on how to create Japanese-Turkish and Turkish-Japaneseavant-garde dictionaries

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