Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the problems of reading comprehension in a non-Kanji background intermediate learner of Japanese. In this study, a learner read reading materials for JLPT N2 and N1 and answered the comprehension questions about each text. In this comprehension process, a learner reported the difficult parts of the reading materials, such as unknown words, kanji, grammar, expressions. Then the author and a learner discussed solving those difficulties. The results indicate that the learner constructed limited mental representation of meaning from the text due to engaging much time in lower-level linguistic processing.
