When talking about the word frequency list that is in circulation, keep in mind it is from a financial newspaper and thus the list has no relation to daily-use Japanese or even to Japanese that you'll find on tv and in books. Frequency lists only help you with the material that the list was generated from. In the case of this list, the sample was much too specific.
A wikipedia-based word frequency list would be much more useful since it covers (or attempts to) every subject there is, but it would still somewhat suffer from being Japanese written in an academic/formal style.
I encourage Shang to use ChaSen instead of his own tool and re-run his analysis for more accurate information, but the list as-is is very useful in comparison to the financial one.
A wikipedia-based word frequency list would be much more useful since it covers (or attempts to) every subject there is, but it would still somewhat suffer from being Japanese written in an academic/formal style.
I encourage Shang to use ChaSen instead of his own tool and re-run his analysis for more accurate information, but the list as-is is very useful in comparison to the financial one.
Edited: 2009-06-19, 9:14 pm