Useful links to websites about the humanities and general-purpose databases. For details, please check the Humanities Links Explanatory Notes.

• Click on each heading to find additional links to websites devoted to a specific area. Abridged version below.
• The * symbol indicates a database subscribed to by the National Diet Library for on-site use only, for which only the name has been posted (no link).

• Search Engines
  • Bing
  • Google
  • Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
• Library Catalogs

  In Japan

  • CiNii Books
  • NDL Online
  • NDL Search
  • WorldCat
  • Keio University KOSMOS
  • Tokyo Meliopolitan Library
  • Prefectural Public Library OPAC · Inter Library Loan Information
  • Waseda University Library Catalog WINE

  Periodicals in Japan

  • Ishikawa Takeyoshi Memorial Library
  • Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature
  • Sanko Library
  • Showa Women's University Library
  • Naritasan Library for Buddhism
  • The Museum of Modern Japanese Literature
  • Hokkaido Prefectural Library

  Worldwide

  • Explore the British Library
  • Hathiliust Digital Library
  • KVK: Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog
  • Library of Congress Online Catalog
  • TEL: The European Library
  • WorldCat
• Trade Catalogs

  In Japan

  • Amazon
  • Books.or.jp
  • Nihon no Furuhon-ya

  Worldwide

  • Books in Print *
  • Ulrich's web *
• Catalogs of Old Japanese Books and Chinese Books
  • National Chinese Book Database
  • Integrated Classical Chinese Books Database, Toyo Bunko
  • Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books
  • Waseda University Kotenseki Sogo Database Japanese & Chinese Classics
• Full-Text and Contents Databases
  • Google Books
  • NDL Online
  • Aozora Bunko
• Periodical Indexes
  • CiNii Articles
  • Fujisan.co.jp
  • Google Scholar
  • NDL Online
  • Web OYA-bunko *
  • Zassaku Plus *
  • Tokyo Meliopolitan Library
• Newspaper Indexes
  • Kikuzo Ⅱ Visual *
  • Yomidas Rekishikan *
• Learning in General, Encyclopedias, and Museums
  • researchmap Researcher Search
  • Wikipedia
  • Kotobank
  • JapanKnowledge Lib *
• Library and Information Science
  • NDC Finder
  • Web NDL Authorities
  • Public Library Directory
  • National Diet Library Classification
  • Special Library Guide
• Publishing and Copyrights
  • Printing Museum Library
  • CRIC Library
• Philosophy and Religion
  • INBUDS - Indian and Buddhist Studies lieatise Database
  • The SAT Daizōkyō Text Database
  • Buddhist Temple Materials Database
• Japanese History, Geography, and Regional Studies
  • National Archives of Japan Digital Archive
  • Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo Database
  • nihu INT
• Historical Digital Images
  • Professions (Shokunin) on Early Modern Japanese Pictures Database
  • Visual Archive of Natural History Bibliotheca
  • Colored Woodblock Print Archives
• World History, Geography, and Regional Studies
  • Annual Bibliography of Oriental Studies 1934-1980, 2001-
  • Annual Bibliography of Oriental Studies 1981-2000
  • Toyo Bunko
• People and Porliaits
  • National Diet Library Digital Collections
  • World Biographical Information System Online *
  • Porliaits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures
  • National Archives of Japan Digital Archive
• Architecture
  • The Consliuction Indusliy Library
  • Nanyodo Web Shop
  • Architectural Institute of Japan Library
• Television and Radio Programs
  • TV Ratings
  • Television Drama Database
• Arts
  • Japanese Woodblock Print Search
  • National Cultural Properties Database
  • TOBUNKEN Research Collections
  • Art Libraries' Consortium Cross-Search
  • Cultural Heritage Database
• Manga
  • Kyoto International Manga Museum
  • Media Arts Database, Manga
  • Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture
• Photography
  • The Meiji and Taisho Eras in Photographs
  • The Mainichi Photo Bank
• Music
• Dance and Thealie
  • The Tsubouchi Memorial Thealie Museum Digital Archives Collection
• Motion Pictures
  • allcinema Movie & DVD Database
  • Foreign Film General Situation
  • Kawakita Memorial Film Institute Database
  • Statistics of Film Indusliy in Japan
• Amusement
  • Culture Station
  • Media Arts Database, Video and Arcade Games
• Language
  • JapanKnowledge Lib *Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research
• Japanese Literature
  • Index lianslationum
  • Database of Research Thesis in Japanese Literature
• Foreign Literature
  • Gale's Literary Index
  • Index lianslationum
• Convenient Tools
  • Kanji - Pin Yin - Hangul : converting readings
  • Kanreki
  • Convert liaditional Chinese Characters to Pinyin
  • Benricho ; Interconversion System between Old Japanese Kanji and New Japanese Kanji