Published between the years 1896 to 1914, the Koji Ruien consists of 67,000 pages covering 40,354 topics. It is a useful resource for understanding Japanese culture reflected in pre-Meiji cultural concepts and documents.

Provides brief introductions and links to thirty databases of digital materials, including full texts from Nihon koten bungaku taikei, Nijuichidaishu, and Koji ruien.

Aozora Bunko is a digital library that makes available full-text images of out-of-copyright texts and texts digitized with the author’s permission.

Organized by manga artist Ken Akamatsu for the legal distribution of manga that are no longer available.

The JTI provides authoritative editions in both Japanese and English translations of the masterpieces of classical Japanese literature, from its beginnings in the 8th century through modern novels and poetry. Among the online texts are The Tale of Genji, classics of haiku poetry, and Kabuki plays. The works are searchable by key word.

This site provides access to official documents of the Japanese Cabinet, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Army and Navy. To view items you must download a plugin.

The Japanese Historical Text Initiative at the University of California at Berkeley is a digitized, searchable database of important Japanese historical documents and their English translations. It includes ancient chronicles, ancient gazetteers, ancient religio-civil codes, medieval stories, medieval and early-modern interpretive histories.