Japanese Studies (in Japanese)

This is a wonderful website. The basic information (author, title, publisher) has the readings provided. There are links to booksellers.

Picture books for happiness

A magazine about books and reading.

reviews, articles, digitized and searchable scans of newspaper advertisements for books.

Between 1993 and 2016, this newsletter provided overseas publishing companies, editors, and translators access to the latest information on publishing trends and new publications in Japan. An archive of the newsletter is available.

Also includes interviews with authors.

BookMeter is a lot like GoodReads. It is often used by Japanese to keep track of what they have read and the ranking that they gave a book.

Junkudo will let you select books, place orders for things not in stock, and designate a branch for pickup and payment. This is a great way to plan ahead for hard to locate books/issues of journals and not waste time looking for things you already know you need. Depending on the amount they will deliver to you home/hotel. Online shopping now connected to honto.jp

Used to be bk1

Online shopping, good if you want to pick up your books at the closest 7/11.

accepts foreign credit cards.