The 448 kanji in this set are those prescribed by the Japanese Ministry of Education for the first three grades of school.Tuttle Flash Cards is a comprehensive series of flash cards designed to help travelers and beginning learners of Asian languages. The series will include Kanji Cards I and II, Kana Cards, Japanese in a Flash I and II , vocabulary-building cards, as well as parallel sets of flash cards for Arabic, Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese.About the authorAlexander Kask is an editor, translator, and freelance writer living in Tokyo, Japan.