Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Importance of Cognates for EFL in Japan -- Part 1: Japan's Importation of English -- Chapter 1. The Assimilation of English into Japanese - A Historical and Linguistic Overview -- Chapter 2. Today's Generation of Gairaigo -- Part 2: Gairaigo and Language Acquisition -- Chapter 3. Resolving the Paradox of Cognates -- Chapter 4. The Effect of Loanwords in Japanese on the Learning of English -- Part 3: The Built-in Lexicons -- Chapter 5. Common Loanword Cognates for High-frequency and Academic English -- Chapter 6. Quantifying the Overlap and Quality of Japanese/English Cognates -- Part 4: Exploiting Japanese Loanword Cognates -- Chapter 7. Barriers to Accessing Cognates -- Chapter 8. Extending Word Knowledge Within Word Families -- Epilogue: New Horizons -- Appendix 1: The Standard Set of Katakana -- Appendix 2: The List of Common Loanwords Corresponding to the BNC 3000 -- Appendix 3: Academic Borrowed Words -- Appendix 4. The Similarity of 1K Sampled Borrowed Words and Japanese Loanwords -- Appendix 5. The Similarity of 2K Sampled Borrowed Words and Japanese Loanwords -- Appendix 6. The Similarity of 3K Sampled Borrowed Words and Japanese Loanwords -- References -- Index