Japanese Studies

Books or chapters out of copyright or the authors agree to make them available for open access.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Many Japanese books out of copyrights are available full-text.

It provides full-text access to the works of members of Japan P.E.N. Club. Many contemporary authors can be found here.

The National Diet Library of Japan provides full images of over 140 thousand Japanese books from the Meiji and Taisho eras.

It provides searches in the largest database of pre-modern Japanese texts. A large number of the texts are available full-text in high-resolution digital images.

This is an united catalogue of Japanese language materials which provides reliable book information.