Best-selling Japanese dictionary updated with more nuclear terms

The new edition of the best-selling Japanese dictionary "Kojien" to go on sale next month will be the first with nuclear power generation terms selected by a dedicated editor in its 62-year history, according to its publisher.The dictionary covering some 240,000 words was first published in 1955 and is revised every 10 years or so. Its publisher, Iwanami Shoten, decided to have a particular editor for nuclear terms for the upcoming 7th edition as people have become more familiar with such terms since the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.Some of the terms have been frequently used in th…READ FULL ARTICLE