The Japanese Stage-Step Course consists of four volumes: The Grammar Textbook, Workbook 1, Workbook 2 and The Writing Book.

Workbooks 1 and 2 cover supplementary audio and exercises covering the material in The Grammar Textbook. The Writing Book covers hiragana, katakana and beginning kanji.

The Japanese Stage-Step Course is a comprehensive beginning to intermediate Japanese course. The contents include: Basic Structures of Japanese, Numbers and Counters, Verbs, Adverbs, Conjunctive Forms and Their Uses, Adjectival Clauses, Derived Verbs: Potentials and Passives, Making Inferences, Emotive Expressions, Overriding Particles, Adverbial Clauses, Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases, Conjunctions, and Honorifics.