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Acknowledgements; Preface; PART 1: Japan's Importation of English; 1.The Assimilation of English into Japanese - A Historical and LinguisticOverview; 2. Today's Generation of Gairaigo; PART 2: Gairaigo and LanguageAcquisition; 3. Resolving the paradox of cognates; 4. The Effect of Loanwordsin Japanese on the Learning of English; PART 3: The Built-in Lexicons; 5.Common loanword cognates for high-frequency and academic English; 6.Quantifying the Overlap and Quality of Japanese/English Cognates; PART 4:Exploiting Japanese Loanword Cognates; 7. Barriers to Accessing Cognates; 8.Extending Word Knowledge Within Word Families; Epilogue - New Horizons.