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One of the largest Japanese dictionaries (\u8f9e\u66f8 jisho) is published from Sanseido. It is the most popular one.\u00a0 It was first published in 1960, and it has been edited periodically to add or delete words.\u00a0 The dictionary was updated this year after 8 years.<\/p>\n

Language is alive and it is changing all the time whether you like it or not.\u00a0 Dictionaries must reflect these changes.\u00a0 So publishers must look at their dictionaries periodically. Sankyu Tatsuo, a Japanese linguist and a comedian, writes \u201cLanguage changes reflecting time. So correct Japanese does not exist.\u00a0 This notion is shared by linguists (\u8a00\u8a9e\u5b66\u8005 gengogakusha) for Japanese, and Japanese linguists.\u201d<\/p>\n

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