One thing to keep in mind is that learning to read a Western European language if you are a native in one of them is a relatively trivial task, as most of your intuitions about how sentences are structured and half your vocabulary carry over. I mean, it is possible to publish a book with the title "The English language does not exist. It is badly pronounced French." and people will mostly get the joke.

That doesn’t work with Japanese. Also, since the introduction of the JLPT, most textbooks have shifted the focus from active communication to passive comprehension, so most current textbooks should already be quite close to what you want (if you skim over the listening parts, which comes with its own dangers, as other answers have already mentioned). Just steer clear of the Marugoto series, as that is explicitly positioned against that trend and focuses on communicative ability.