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Japanese - Finding field specific Jargon

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専門語 Japanese Jargon

As a lot of us are graduating every year I'm sure a couple people have looked into this subject before. But what is the best way to try and get a hold of all that jargon in your field. It seems impractical for me to go back and relearn everything in Japanese so I've been searching for a website or book that has a list of Jargon words.

I'm studying Mechanical engineering and found this site by using google http://www.tomoeshokai.co.jp/tec_info/wording/machine/ so far just wondering if there are any better options out there.

This one seems okay so far because they also define the term in Japanese as well as give an english translation.
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JMdict/EDICT has these "field of application" tags:

Buddh Buddhist term
MA martial arts term
comp computer terminology
food food term
geom geometry term
gram grammatical term
ling linguistics terminology
math mathematics
mil military
physics physics terminology

Number of lines in the edict file that contain each tag:

$ for t in Buddh MA comp food geom gram ling math mil physics;do echo $(grep "($t)" edict.txt|wc -l) $t;done|sort -rn
12669 comp
1108 Buddh
620 food
618 ling
450 math
143 physics
135 MA
19 mil
8 geom
0 gram

http://ftp.ftp.edrdg.org/pub/Nihongo/00INDEX.html also includes some domain-specific word lists or dictionary files.
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