Translating Japanese Literature

What do you do when your professor tells you to find and translate a Japanese short story that hasn't already been translated into English?

Audio Books

Being able to listen to someone read a text out loud can be very helpful. Here are some links to audio recordings of Japanese literature.

青空朗読
1140 titles as of Feb 2024. Listen to Japanese read aloud from open access texts in the Aozora Bunko collection.

Aozora
Aozora is a collection of online texts that do not have copyright restrictions on them. These are an excellent source for translation.

Subjects: Comparative Literature, Japanese

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