Best way to learn to read Japanese?

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LemonSlice said:

So, nobody thought to recommend actual learning tools such as the awesome Human Japanese and Human Japanese Intermediate apps or the Living Language Japanese Complete books with CDs?

http://www.humanjapanese.com/home.html

http://www.amazon.com/Living-Language-Japanese-Complete-Edition/dp/0307478653/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393442682&sr=8-1&keywords=living+language+japanese

 

Rosetta Stone is overpriced crap.

From what I understand about Rosetta Stone is that it is good for languages based on Latin but is bad for ones that are not