Genki 1: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese

One of the most used textbook in japanese Languageschools right now, very detailed in Grammatic lessions & a wide selection of usefull companionbooks makes this is a must for those who want to enter japanese classes. Great layout and explanations makes it even easy to study on your own with this helpful textbook. If you liked Minna no nihongo - you should definitly give it a try !

Genki is an innovative textbook of introductory Japanese written by Eri Banno, Chikako Shinagawa, Yoko Sakane, Kyoko Tokashiki, and Yutaka Ohno, all on the faculty of the Asian Studies Program, Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan.
It has been field-tested for four years at Kansai Gaidai and colleges in the United States and Sweden. It has been enthusiastically received by the more than four hundred students who studied with the field test editions.

Short, lively dialogues that deal with situations students can easily relate to, Carefully selected vocabulary relevant to everyday life, Abundant illustrations, Thorough, clearly-written explanations of grammar, Extensive, non-mechanical exercises, Numerous classroom activities, and Comprehensive Japanese-to-English, and English-to-Japanese Indexes. By Eri Banno, Yutaka Ohno, Yoko Sakane and Chikako Shinagawa