This beautiful notebook makes studying a pleasure! Each double page spread has squared paper on the right-hand side for practicing formation of the Japanese characters, and lined paper on the left-hand side for note-taking. A ten-page reference section gives hiragana and katakana charts, basic character writing guides, a list of the 100 most common kanji; key vocabulary, and verb forms. Contents: Pages 1-8: How to write charactersPages 9-118: Alternate Pages of lined and squared paper for note-taking and handwriting practicePages 119-120: Hiragana alphabet chartsPages 121-122: Katakana alphabet chartsPages 123-125: Common kanji characters & wordsPage 127: Plain verb forms in Japanese