JLPT N1

300 lessons, 3,225 words, 98 grammar points, 349 kanji and 5 mock papers.

Vocabulary — 3,225 words with readings and meanings, in 10 parts
Grammar — 98 points, 48 of them shown in lines of the course
Kanji — 349 characters with meanings, readings and stroke counts

Vocabulary: lessons 1–30 · lessons 31–60 · lessons 61–90 · lessons 91–120 · lessons 121–150 · lessons 151–180 · lessons 181–210 · lessons 211–240 · lessons 241–270 · lessons 271–300

The N1 test

2 parts, 165 minutes and 101 questions in all. The figures are the JLPT's (test sections), and each of this course's 5 N1 mock papers has this shape.

Part	Minutes	Questions
言語知識・読解 Language · Reading	110	71
聴解 Listening	55	30

Part	Question type	Questions
言語知識・読解	漢字読み	6
言語知識・読解	文脈規定	7
言語知識・読解	言い換え類義	6
言語知識・読解	用法	6
言語知識・読解	文法形式の判断	10
言語知識・読解	文の組み立て	5
言語知識・読解	文章の文法	5
言語知識・読解	内容理解（短文）	4
言語知識・読解	内容理解（中文）	9
言語知識・読解	内容理解（長文）	4
言語知識・読解	統合理解	3
言語知識・読解	主張理解（長文）	4
言語知識・読解	情報検索	2
聴解	課題理解	5
聴解	ポイント理解	6
聴解	概要理解	5
聴解	即時応答	11
聴解	統合理解	3

Does the JLPT publish an N1 word list?

No. Since its 2010 revision the JLPT publishes no list of vocabulary, kanji or grammar for any level. Its FAQ gives the reason: the test measures using Japanese to communicate, so a list of items to memorise was “not necessarily appropriate”. What it does publish is each level's test sections, a summary of what a candidate can do, and sample questions.

The lists on these pages are this course's: the words, grammar and kanji its N1 lessons teach.

The N1 lessons

The Policy Board Plenary

Convening the Monetary Policy Board
Dissecting the Consumer Price Index
The Yield Curve Twist at Ten Years
The Unlimited Fixed-Rate Bond Purchase Operation
Auditing the Statutory Minutes
Modeling Output Gap and Demand Deficits
Real Negative Yields and Capital Flight Risks
Interbank Collateral Haircut Adjustments
The Governor's Post-Meeting Press Conference
Quantitative Easing Side Effects on Bank Margins
Cross-Border Regulatory Inquiries from Vance
Reverse Repo Operations at Close of Trading
Forward Guidance Re-Anchoring Strategy
Emergency Overnight Clearing House Surveillance
The Governor's Private Briefing with Legal
Econometric Shock Simulation: Oil Import Spikes
Primary Dealer Syndicate Consultations
Unscheduled Policy Board Deliberation Rumors
Cross-Checking the Core-Core Inflation Measure
Bilateral Currency Swap Threshold Reviews
Quantitative Models for Household Spending Contraction
The Legal Mandate of Price Stability
Secondary Market Squeeze on Benchmark 360
International Spillover Briefing from Basel
Term Structure Convexity Modeling
Preparing the Governor's Parliament Testimony
The Speculative Off-Shore Attack on Short Rates
Desk-Wide Emergency Dry Run: Yield Band Widening
The Eve of the Plenary: Draft Consensus Building
Volume 1 Finale: The Surprise Yield Band Decision

Market Operations Desk

Morning Open at the Operations Floor
Competitive Auction Mechanics for Treasury Discount Bills
Intraday Overdraft Allocations and RTGS Routing
Tail Risk Analysis on Sovereign Debt Auctions
Repo Market Special Collateral Squeezes
Outright Corporate Paper Purchase Operations
Auditing Settlement Fail Protocols
Quantitative Modeling of Excess Liquidity Absorption
Primary Dealer Liquidity Commitment Hearings
Emergency Cross-Currency Repo Standing Facilities
Yield-Bearing Current Account Tiering Structures
The Midnight Settlement Gridlock Drill
Legal Limits on ETF and Asset Purchases
Bond Market Liquidity Metric Deterioration
Collateral Margin Call Management Under Market Shocks
Auditing Secondary Market Dealer Allotments
The International Reserve Management Strategy
The Automated T-Bill Purchase Algorithm Rollout
Commercial Paper Market Contraction Warnings
The Emergency Liquidity Inquest
Regional Bank Excess Deposit Allocation Traps
Counterparty Risk Verification for Foreign Brokerages
Secondary Settlement System Black Swan Drill
The Offshore Speculative Attack on Overnight OIS
The Governor's Off-the-Record Meeting with Major Lenders
Cross-Border Liquidity Swaps: Vance’s Ratification Review
Quantitative Decomposition of Term Premia Shifts
Resolving Settlement Fail Spikes on Bond Delivery Day
Night Desk Debriefing: The Next Day's Operations Plan
Volume 2 Finale: The Interbank Liquidity Defense

Foreign Exchange Surveillance

The Offshore Speculative Rupture
The Exchange Rate Rate-Check Warning
Dissecting Real Effective Exchange Rates
Legal Mandate of the Foreign Exchange Special Account
Capital Flight and Resident Cross-Border Outflows
The Dollar-Liquidity Standby Line Activation
Covert Stealth Interventions in Oceanic Hours
Foreign Reserve Liquidation Constraints
High-Frequency Limit Order Book Algorithmic Arbitrage
Coordinated Multilateral Plenary Consultations
Sterilized vs. Unsterilized Intervention Debates
Surveillance of Asymmetric FX Options Expirations
The Emergency Cabinet Briefing on Import Inflation
Spot Foreign Exchange Order Routing Audits
Simulating Sovereign Bond Portfolio Rebalancing
Forward Contract Hedging Exhaustion Among Importers
Cross-Border Regulatory Swap Legal Ratifications
Emergency Currency Board Asymmetric Operations Run
The G7 Communique Midnight Negotiations
Volume 3 Finale: The Multi-Trillion Spot Market Intervention
Post-Intervention Equilibrium Audits
Cross-Border Forward Spread Arbitrage
Replenishing Operational Foreign Currency Tranches
Offshore Non-Deliverable Forward (NDF) Raids
The Macro Inquest on Importer Pass-Through Costs
Surveillance of Asymmetric Cross-Currency Basis
Custody Reserve Auditing and US Treasury Liquidity
Foreign Exchange Intervention Mandate Transparency Disputes
Preparing Desk Lines for G7 Communique Ratification
Volume 3 Milestone: Fortress of Nihonbashi Standing Guard

Systemic Risk & Banking Audits

The On-Site Bank Examination Mandate
Credit Risk Classification of Distressed Corporate Borrowers
Stress Testing Common Equity Tier 1 Ratios
Credit Default Swap Spreads and Contagion Warnings
Interbank Repo Haircut Hikes on Subordinated Debt
Emergency Liquidity Facility Inquiries
Auditing Hidden Unrealized Bond Losses
Cross-Holding Unwinding Directives
Run on Wholesale Short-Term Commercial Deposits
The Basel III Global Liquidity Coverage Ratio Mandate
Legal Receivership and Equity Capital Wiping
Systemic Risk Surveillance Heatmaps
The Bridge Bank Carve-Out Strategy
Counterparty Collateral Substitution Demands
Sovereign-Bank Nexus Doom Loop Modeling
Emergency Capital Injection Legislation Debates
Clearing House Novation and Margin Squeezes
The Board Room Midnight Resolution Session
Market Dawn: Deploying the Special Credit Lines
Governor Katsuragi’s Address to Depositors
The Bad Bank Toxic Asset Carve-Out
The Quantitative Liquidity Stress Re-Calibration
Cross-Border Derivative Netting Enforcement
Regional Banking Consolidation Compacts
Surveillance of Interbank Call Loan Spread Widening
The Special Auditor’s Criminal Referral Discovery
Liquidity Injection to Offset Precautionary Hoarding
Diet Public Accounts Inquest on Bank Resolution Costs
The New Supervisory Capital Framework Draft
Volume 4 Finale: The Rehabilitation Charter Declaration

Global Monetary Summit

The Global Central Banking Delegation Arrives
Cross-Border Liquidity Firewall Reassessment
Sovereign Debt Restructuring and Collective Action Clauses
Algorithmic Flash Crash Containment Protocols
Shadow Banking and Non-Bank Financial Intermediation
Carbon Transition Finance Regulatory Metrics
Foreign Exchange Intervention Codes of Conduct
Central Bank Digital Currency Interoperability Standards
Multilateral Sovereign Debt Default Contagion Modeling
The High-Stakes Summit Working Dinner
The Emergency Currency War De-Escalation Pact
Clearing House Stress Testing and Capital Haircuts
Drafting the Chancellery Accord Text
Multilateral Foreign Reserve Pooled Facilities
Midnight Revisions on the Final Communique
The Dissenting Member Dispute
Sovereign Bond Spread Real-Time Tracking During Plenary
The Basel Committee Institutional Alignment
Final Plenary Roll Call of Signatory Nations
Volume 5 Milestone: The Sovereign Stability Pact Enactment
Post-Summit Transition: The Implementation Taskforce
Cross-Border Liquidity Facility Live Fire Verification
Auditing Domestic Legislative Alignment
Foreign Exchange Reserve Composition Calibration
Macroprudential Early Warning Protocol Review
Commercial Banking Compliance Briefings
Quantitative Simulation of Sovereign Debt Sustainability
The Imperial Chancellery Audience Rehearsal
The Governor's Address to the Chancellery
Part A Grand Finale: The Bells of Nihonbashi

The Lineage Atelier

The Dawn Assembly at the Cutting Board
Forging Carbon Steel and Single-Bevel Mechanics
Natural Kyoto Water Wells and Mineral Hardness
Decennial Cured Kelp Selection from Rishiri
Precision Thermal Profiling in Dashi Drawing
Hand-Shaved Honkarebushi Bonito Shavings
Umami Synergy Mechanics and Synergistic Ratios
Slicing Live Mountain Ayu Without Bruising
The Thousand-Cut Hamo Pike Conger Technique
Natural Water Whetstones and Grit Classification
Wild Mountain Greens and Spring Alkaline Lye Removal
Mirin Brewing and Enzymatic Starch Liquefaction
Cedar Cask Soy Sauce Chemistry and Micro-Flora
Aesthetic Dish Pairing: Oribe Glaze and River Terroir
The Scent of Matsutake and Torched Cedar Needles
Winter Turnip Soup and Soft Glutinous Thickening
Ceramic Restoration with Urushi and Gold Powder
Slicing Raw Abalone Along Muscle Fascicles
Raw Sea Urchin Storage and Alum-Free Integrity
Charcoal Thermodynamics and the Binchotan Radiation Bed
Pickled Salted Cherry Blossoms in Clear Broth
Hand-Shaped Magnolia Charcoal for Tea Ceremony Fish
Simmering Mountain Taro into Hexagonal Jewels
Grated Wild Mountain Yam Binding for Fish Quenelles
Antique Negoro Lacquer Patina and the Red-Black Dialectic
The Geometry of Raw Sea Bream Sashimi Petals
Boiling Wild River Duck with Mountain Sansho Peppercorns
The Guild Examination Guidelines: Master vs. Apprentice
Knife Washing Etiquette and Cypress Block Planing
Volume 6 Finale: The Lineage Broth Tasting

The Micro-Season Roster

The Twenty-Four Solar Terms and Seventy-Two Micro-Seasons
Morning Harvest of Underground White Bamboo Shoots
Wild Wasabi Harvesting Along Shaded Alpine Brooks
Mountain Vegetable Tempura Frying Temperatures
Upstream Migration of Wild Cherry Trout
Hand-Pollinated Summer Kamo Eggplants
Bamboo Leaf Wrapping for Summer Sweet Rice Cakes
Firefly Squid Blanching and Mustard Vinegar Dressing
Slicing Summer Sea Bass Washed in Iced Water
Summer Hearth Charcoal Placement and Smoke Ventilation
Foraging Autumn Mountain Chestnuts in Tamba
Candied Chestnut Glazing and Gardenia Dyeing
Harvest of Deep Purple Kamo Autumn Peppers
Salt-Broiling Spawning Sweetfish with Roe
Foraging Giant Maitake in Deciduous Mountain Ridges
Winter Snow-Covered Shogoin Radish Braising
Shucking and Icing Winter Hiroshima Bay Oysters
Charcoal-Roasting Wild Pufferfish Soft Roe
The Ephemeral Winter Delicacy of Sea Cucumber Ovaries
Volume 7 Milestone: The Micro-Season Feast of Deep Winter
Spring Snow Thaw and Mountain Wasabi Greens
Slicing Spawning Spring Flounder Along Bone Grooves
The First Spring Pick of Uji Gyokuro Green Tea
Spring Bamboo Grove Shoots Cooked with Sansho Leaves
Midsummer Iced Water Stone Basins and Hamo Sashimi
Autumn Wild Mushroom Terracotta Pot Simmering
Winter Wild Boar Hotpot and Aged Red Miso
The Micro-Seasonal Tea Ceremony Host Protocols
The Foraged Botanical Inventory Audit
Volume 7 Finale: The Living Roster of Four Seasons

The Fermentation Cellars

Descent into the Subterranean Vaults
Steaming Heirloom Rice for Inoculation
The Microscopic Thread of Yellow Koji Spores
Midnight Turning of the Cedar Koji Trays
Scent Profiles of Ripening Koji: From Chestnut to Fruit
Crushing Boiled Tamba Soybeans in Open Troughs
Packing the Three-Meter Yoshino Cedar Vats
Setting the River Stone Counterweights
Lactic Acid Bacteria Succession in Miso Aging
The Aeration Paddle Protocol for Yeast Vats
Rice Polishing Ratios and Shinpaku Starch Purity
Pure-Yeast Starter Cultivation Using Ancient Kimoto Methods
The Bubble Crests of Cold Low-Temperature Fermentation
Canvas Bag Drip Pressing Under Gravity Alone
The Living Wood Micro-Ecology of Aging Cedar Vats
Pure Rice Vinegar Fermentation and Surface Acetic Mats
Micro-Filtered Mirin Lees and Sweet Pressed Cakes
Winter Miso Skimming and the First Dark Tamari
The Scientific Audit of Ancient Cellar Yeasts
Volume 8 Finale: The Uncasking Ceremony of Three-Year Red Miso
The Slow Static Acetic Fermentation of Heirloom Brown Rice Vinegar
Cold-Weather Soy Sauce Pressing via Traditional Lever Beams
Shio-Koji Proteolysis and Cold Marine Curing
The Aeration Rhythm of Nukadoko Rice-Bran Beds
The Micro-Flora Audit of Ancient Cedar Sake Casks
Mirin Distillation and the Craft of Pure Hon-Naoshi
Hand-Shaping White Kyoto Miso into Smooth Patties
The Seasonal Inspection of Cellar Moisture Ratios
Emergency Acetic Spike in Mash Tank Number Four
Volume 8 Climax: The Guild Consecration of the Annual Vats

The Ceramic Service Dialectic

The Vault of Ancient Ceramic Shards
Iron-Rich Clay and Natural Ash Glazes of Shigaraki
The Wabi-Sabi Asymmetry of Hand-Pinched Raku Bowls
Multi-Layered Wajima Urushi Lacquering Protocols
Gold-Powder Sprinkled Makie Across Autumn Lids
The Physics of Negative Space on Karatsu Stoneware
Thermal Expansion Differentials in Clay Pot Rice Boiling
Ancient Blue-and-White Porcelain Pairing with Spring Greens
Water Spritzing Etiquette and the Dewdrop of Purity
Volume 9 Half-Way Milestone: The Vessel Selection Inquest
Repairing Fractured Shigaraki Jars with High-Tin Lead Solder
Celadon Glaze Crackle Lines and Ice-Splitting Sounds
Cedar Shingle Plating Trays and Fresh Resinous Aromas
Hand-Carved Bamboo Chopsticks and the Tapered Tip
Stoneware Thermal Shock Cracking in Boiling Oil Service
The Charcoal Wash for Restoring Ancient Negoro Plates
Modernist Glass Pairing with Chilled Summer Jellies
The Alignment of Bowl Motifs with Guest Demographics
The Auditing of Lineage Ceramic Provenance Ledgers
Volume 9 Climax: The Ceramic-Gastronomic Synthesis Banquet
The Lineage Succession Mandate
The Blind Blade Sharpening Inquest
The Ten-Season Dashi Extraction Challenge
Foraging in Sub-Zero Mountain Fissures
Charcoal Bed Combustion Tuning for Delicate River Fish
The Thousand-Year Miso Barrel Sampling Trial
The Ceramic Pairing Dialectic Under Critical Inquest
The Master Knife Cutting of the Sacred Sea Bream
The Eve of the Succession Banquet: Midnight Council
The Grand Succession Feast: The Nine Sacred Courses

The Grand Imperial Review

The Sensory Review of the Clear Soup Course
The Fire and Iron Trial at the Charcoal Hearth
The Botanical Authenticity Audit
The Ancient Fermentation Pairing Verdict
The Integrity of the Lacquerware Rinse
The Municipal Cultural Heritage Ledger Signing
The Conferral of the Master’s Blade
The Unveiling of the Successor's Nameboard
The Master’s Final Private Instruction
Volume 10 Grand Milestone: The Eternal Hearth of Gion
Convocating the World Gastronomy Congress in Kyoto
The Micro-Flora Vault Security Protocol
The Knife Steel Metallurgy Colloquium
River Basin Terracing and Water Mineral Audits
The Kiln Masters' Inter-Provincial Alliance
Forest Wildfire Contingency at Mount Atago
Cross-Checking the Micro-Seasonal Latin Botanical Concordance
The Preservation of Century-Old Cedar Fermentation Staves
Curating the Imperial Tasting Menu for Diplomatic Envoys
The Midnight Culinary Hearth Ignition Protocol
Slicing Thousand-Year-Old Lineage Abalone Plates
The Temperature-Zone Coordination of Seven Stews
The Historic Urushi Plate Plating Rehearsal
The Grand Plenary Banquet: Service Commences
The Foreign Critics’ Blind Soup Assessment
The Hearth Pit Climax: Wild Mountain Venison
The Unbroken Succession of the Rice Cauldrons
Signing the International Kyoto Heritage Manifesto
Depositing the Guild Secret Chronicles into the Archive
Part B & Master Curriculum Grand Finale: The Bells of Gion

Price

Free for good: lessons 1–10 of every level (of each of N1's two worlds), the first mock paper of each level, かな, the dictionary and 書き取り. Everything is free for the first 7 days; after that the rest is US$2.99 a month or US$19.99 a year.