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Japan Studies: Literature : Database/Website

Database at UW

Digital South Asia Library

A catalog of the 19th century publications found in the Oriental and India Office Collections (OIOC) of the British Library. The collections includes literature and documents on India, Pakistan, Burma, Bangladesh, and neighbor countries, Iran and the Gulf states, South Africa, St Helena, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, China and Japan.

Websites Open to Public

NIJL (国文学研究資料館)

The Museum of Modern Japanese Literature (日本近代文学館)

Japan Foundation

Japanese literary works translated into other languages, most after World War Two. Searches can be made either in Japanese character or Roman letters.

Japanese Literature in English