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The Japan Shop (TheJapanShop.com) has been helping people learn Japanese since 2002. Founded and still run by Clay and Yumi Boutwell — an American-Japanese husband-and-wife team based in Florida — we create beginner-friendly Japanese learning materials: ebooks and paperbacks, audio courses, graded readers, Anki flashcard decks, and JLPT N5 and N4, plus the monthly Makoto e-zine and the Makoto+ membership with its companion app.Our specialty is making real Japanese readable for beginners. Every story and dialogue comes with furigana, line-by-line vocabulary, grammar notes, and native-speaker audio recorded by Yumi, so learners go from hiragana to reading actual Japanese stories faster than apps alone can take them.Popular titles include our Hiragana and Katakana workbooks, the Japanese Reader Collection, Kanji 100, and the Complete Beginner Bundle — a step-by-step path from zero to JLPT N5. Learners will also find free lessons, podcasts, and articles at TheJapanesePage.com, our free-study sister site.Clay has taught Japanese online for more than 25 years, beginning with the free lessons at TheJapanesePage.com, and our store reviews average 4.9 out of 5 across 700+ verified customer reviews. Every digital purchase includes free lifetime updates, and support emails are answered by real humans — usually Clay himself.

TheJapanShop.com (thejapanshop.com) has 76 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 5.0 out of 5.

Website

thejapanshop.com

Category

Language Learning

Location

Lake City, Florida

Listed on Five Star Index

2026