Abstract:
This research was about a synonym of tomodachi, yuujin, and nakama in Japanese.
Tomodachi, yuujin, and nakama have similar meaning in Japanese, that is „friend‟, but the usage
is different in sentence, depend on the context and situation of sentence. The purpose of this
research wants to know of the meaning and similar meaning of tomodachi, yuujin, and nakama.
The collecting data from some Japanese dictionary, Japan movie, and Japanese books related
with this research.
