dizmox Wrote:In just over a year's time I need to be basically business proficient in Japanese for employment purposes so I'll be embarking on this same route of reading the Nikkei and whatnot each day too. (...)My schedule isn't really helpful because I've been studying Japanese on and off for way too many years, and didn't discover Anki until quite recently.
How long have you had that schedule OP?
Here's a book that was extremely useful for me in acquiring business and economics vocabulary:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%...351&sr=8-3
It has Japanese and the English translation side by side, so you can check your understanding right away, and enter various terms into Anki (or whatever you're using) without looking them up.
The grammar used in the book is fairly basic compared to that in newspaper articles, but that makes it especially good because the learning curve is flatter. I didn't sentence mine the book at the time because I wasn't aware of the method, and in any case, there's not much need to learn words like 所得格差 (income gap) in context because the concepts translate 1:1 to English, unless of course the sentences help you remember the vocabulary.