Research Guides: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese

Japanese Literature Resources

Online Japanese Language & Culture Resource Community
"Since 1996, Japanese-Online.com has been providing free learning services to people who wish to study the Japanese language."
Digital Collections of the National Archives of Japan
Includes documents, scrolls, maps, photographs, drawings, and more. Can be searching in Japanese or English.
The Japan P.E.N. Club
Full text of modern Japanese literature.
e-Asia Digital Library
Japanese books and resources in English translation provided by the University of Oregon.
Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive
Hathi Trust - Japan
Freely available e-books related to Japan
Aozora Bunko
Full-text classical Japanese literature
National Diet Library Digital Collections
Digitized books from the Meiji and Taisho periods

Jisho
Jisho is a powerful Japanese-English dictionary. It lets you find words, kanji, example sentences and more quickly and easily.
Tangorin Japanese
Tangorin is an online Japanese-English dictionary with example sentences and many features to help you learn Japanese.

The Asahi Shimbun (Japanese)
The Asahi Shimbum (English)
The Asahi Shimbun is widely regarded for its journalism as the most respected daily newspaper in Japan.
The Japan Times
The Mainichi (Japanese)
The Mainichi (English)
Japan's daily since 1922.

World News Connection Archive (1995-2013) This link opens in a new window
Brings news from around the world, translated into English. The information is obtained from newspaper articles, television and radio broadcasts, online sources, conference proceedings, periodicals, and non-classified reports. This information is collected and translated by and for the U.S. Government.