Finding literary text
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NDL Digital Collections 国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション Choose "Books" and limit the search to "Available without login" for open access materials.
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Aozora Bunko 青空文庫 A digital library containing freely accessible Japanese e-books from the public domain as well as works made openly available by the author.
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Tokyo Metropolitan Library Catalogue 東京都立図書館蔵書検索Choose "内容・目次" to access table-of-contents information.
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Bungei shunjū 文藝春秋 One of the most well-established and long-running literary journals, Bungei shunjū is also responsible for the Akutagawa prize. These titles are housed on the lower floor of Asian Library and can be taken out for a week (renewable). Use CiNii to search for particular stories within these journals.Call Number: AP95.J2 B85 ASIAN LIBRARY journals
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Shōsetsu shinchō 小說新潮 Includes short works by current and mainstream authors.Call Number: PL770.A1 S568 ASIAN LIBRARY journals
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Mefisuto メフィスト Mephisto highlights alternate short works and includes mystery and sci-fi titles.Call Number: PL770.A1 M43 ASIAN LIBRARY journals
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Yom yom ヨムヨム Features contemporary works by well-known as well as emerging authors.Call Number: PL770.A1 Y6 ASIAN LIBRARY journals
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Subaru すばるCall Number: PL700 .S93 ASIAN LIBRARY journals
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Bungakukai 文學界Call Number: PL700 .B853 ASIAN LIBRARY journals
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Gunzō 群像Call Number: PL700 .G859 ASIAN LIBRARY journals
Scholarly articles
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Nihon bungaku kenkyū bunken yōran, 2022-2024 - Gendai Nihon bungaku 日本文学研究文献要覧, 2020-2024 - 現代日本文学Call Number: Z3308.L5 N44 2025 ASIAN LIBRARY referencePublication Date: 2025
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Kokubungaku ronbun dētabēsu 国文学論文データベース Indexes research papers related to Japanese literature, linguistics, and language eductaion, published in journals and monographs held at the National Institute of Japanese Literature.
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CiNii Research (in Japanese) Provides citations for Japanese-language articles from all disciplines. Some full-text, as well as links to full-text.
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Zassaku Plus ざっさくプラス A comprehensive index for Japanese magazines and periodicals from the Meiji era to the present.
This is not an exhaustive list. Please check the library catalogue for additional journal titles.
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Ajia yūgaku アジア遊学Call Number: Individual issues are catalogued separately.
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Bungakukai 文学界Call Number: PL700 .B853 ASIAN LIBRARY journals
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Kaishaku 解釈Call Number: PL700 .K338 ASIAN LIBRARY journals
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Kokugakuin zasshi 国学院雑誌Call Number: AS552.K57 A42 ASRS STORAGE
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Kokugo kokubun 国語国文Call Number: PL501 .K635 ASIAN LIBRARY journals
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Kokugo to kokubungaku 国語と国文学Call Number: PL501 .K638 ASIAN LIBRARY journals
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Nihon bungaku 日本文学Call Number: PL700 .N54 ASIAN LIBRARY journals
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Subaru すばるCall Number: PL700 .S93 ASIAN LIBRARY journals
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Bibliography of Asian Studies Contains nearly 800,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
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JSTOR Collection In addition to fully-searchable journal backfiles, also includes current issues for some titles as well as collections of primary-source documents such as their '19th century British pamphlets'.
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Project Muse Online access to a comprehensive selection of important journals and ebooks in the humanities and social sciences.
Newspaper databases
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Asahi Shinbun Cross-Search 朝日新聞クロスサーチA newspaper database for Asahi shinbun published from 1879 to present. Also includes articles from Aera, Shūkan Asahi, Chiezō, Asahi shinbun jinbutsu dētabēsu, and Asahi shinbun rekishi shashin ākaibu.
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Yomidas (Yomiuri Database Service) ヨミダスThis database includes full-text Yomiuri Shinbun articles from 1874 to the present, as well as the English-language The Daily Yomiuri from 1989.
