Makes digital versions available of over 100,000 books written during the Meiji and Taisho Period. Launched in 2002, it places scanned images of a text online after expiration of the copyright, or after permission is given by the copyright holder. If you read Japanese, this is a great service!

JPN | Literature & Books | 12/19/2008 | info | Review

Japanese Book News is published quarterly by the Japan Foundation to make available to overseas readers up-to-date information on new books and recent topics of Japan’s publishing culture.

CHN, ENG, JPN, SPA | Literature & Books | 12/19/2008 | info | Review

Collaborative effort by the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the Web.

ENG, JPN | Literature & Books | 06/27/2008 | info | Review

Complete texts of Japanese literary books that have expired copyright.

JPN | Literature & Books | 06/27/2008 | info | Review

Online literature magazine active in the 1990s. Articles by the Japanese critic Koichi Kato about Jun Ishikawa, Kono Abe and other Japanese authors. Features link list of Japanese literature sites, naturally the majority of them dead due to the age of the site.

ENG, JPN | Literature & Books | 04/23/2008 | info | Review

A large number of digital books on Japan dating back to the Meiji Period at the University of Oregon Libraries. Features books in several languages, including Japanese.

ENG | Literature & Books | 04/19/2008 | info | Review

A list of publications (paper or online, book or periodical) on Japan that are published in English (all or part). Also features the Japan Directory of Professional Associations. Terrible interface, but nonetheless an invaluable resource for anybody seriously interested in Japan.

ENG | Literature & Books | 01/23/2008 | info | Review

Launched in 2007, Hitotoki is a literary website collecting personal stories of specific places in Tokyo: “short narratives describing pivotal moments of elation, confusion, absurdity, love or grief — or anything in between.” In Jan 2008, New York and London were added.

ENG, JPN | Literature & Books | 01/23/2008 | info | Review

Linked list about Japanese literature on the Wikipedia site.

ENG | Literature & Books | 01/18/2008 | info | Review

Linked list of Japanese writers, including novelists, historians, essayists, playwrights and others, on the Wikipedia site.

ENG | Authors | 01/18/2008 | info | Review