Japanese-English Dictionary is a tool created for Mac OS X that let you use comprehensive and up-to-date Japanese-English dictionary files containing thousand of Japanese words with English translation.

Apimac Japanese-English Dictionary helps you to write letters, send emails and make phone calls in good Japanese.

You can copy words from the application and paste them into another document. The English translations include information about whether the word is a noun, an adjective, a verb.

You can search for grammatical abbreviations, like "adj-na" for "adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives" and the dictionary will display dozens of Japanese adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives entries with their English translations.

Which Japanese-English dictionaries can be used?
Apimac Japanese-English Dictionary can use various Japanese-English dictionary files that user can download from internet, the format of those files have to be either Unicode UTF-8 Tab-delimited format or Japanese EUD EDICT format.

Note: The application dont support XML format files, this mean that user cannot use JMdict (Japanese-Multilingual Dictionary) files.

Which is the one you reccomend?
We reccomend to use "EDICT Dictionary File" of the JMdict/EDICT Project; founded, coordinated and run by Jim Breen. You can find this file in the "Dictionary Files" folder, inside the application pakage folder.

EDICT is a Japanese-English Dictionary file which currently has about 110,000 entries. See here the links to learn more about it and to download it.

Iconized window
Apimac Japanese-English Dictionary sports the brand new Iconize feature, just a click and your dictionary becomes a handy and small window that stays on top of all the other windows so you can find it easily and get again it with a click.