updated on November 28th, 2025
by Humanities Room

Japanese

General

• NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute ; Language Research
• Text Data of "Goi kenkyu bunken gobetsu mokuroku"
• Database of Research Thesis in Japanese Literature (National Institute of Japanese Literature)
• National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics ; Databases, Corpuses, and Materials
  • Headline Database of Language-Related Newspaper Articles
  • Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research
• 言葉の情報サイト (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
• JapanKnowledge Lib ※(注記)Subscription database for on-site use only
  • Shogakukan Unabridged Dictionary of the Japanese Language
• "Daikanwa" dictionary
• Pronunciation of Written Chinese Characters in Japanese Literature

Example search

• Full-text Database System for the Minutes of the Diet (National Diet Library)
• Center for Corpus Development (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
  • Shonagon 1971-2005, books and blogs, etc.
• Yourei.jp Aozora Bunko and Wikipedia

Other languages

• Glottolog familly of languages・dialects
• Green's Dictionary of Slang
• Omniglot - the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages(INDEX)
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• Verbix Verb Conjugator conjugation,etymology
• National Ainu Museum Ainu Language Archive
• JapanKnowledge Lib ※(注記)Subscription database for on-site use only
  • English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Chinese, Korean
• Chinese Vocabulary Database
• The Online Dictionaries and Full-text Search of Mongolian Languages and Written Manchu