Here are some resources for doing Japanese philosophy. Links marked with ※ are in Japanese. If you have any suggestions for this list, please contact me.

Primary literature

• Aozora Bunko ※

  Contains out-of-copyright copies of texts from many Japanese authors (similar to “Project Gutenberg” in English), such as Nishida, Watsuji, Kuki, etc.

• Cumulative list of writings of major Kyoto-School thinkers available in Western languages (List from Nanzan, Nov. 2011)

• Dogen Kigen’s Shobogenzo ※

• Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook (UH Press)

• UVa’s Japanese Text Initiative

Secondary literature

• Nanzan Essays in Japanese Philosophy

  This is a wonderful collection of scholarly work, and it’s all available to download for free.

Kyōto School Philosophy

• Nishida Database ※

• The Kyoto School Archive ※

  Has handwritten papers by Nishida, Tanabe, etc.

Databases

• The Digital Bibliography of Chinese Buddhism

• Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

Journals

• Asian Philosophy

• Eastern Buddhist Society

• Comparative Philosophy (Open Access)

• Japan Studies Association (Open Access)

• Japan Studies Review (Open Access)

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (Open Access)

• Journal of Japanese Philosophy

  A new journal specifically dedicated to Japanese Philosophy. The first issue should publish soon.

• Monumenta Nipponica

  A long established name in Japanese scholarship, Monumenta Nipponica was the first to publish many of the classic articles and translations in the field.

• Philosophy East and West

• University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy (Open Access)

Societies

• Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy (東亞哲學和比較哲學研究中心)

  Hosted by City University of Hong Kong.

• International Center for Chinese Philosophy

  Hosted by Soochow University.

• The International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy (國際中西哲學比較研究學會)

• The Oriental Club of Philadelphia

  Founded in 1888.

• Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

  In partnership with the American Academy of Religion (AAR).

Japanese Language Resources

Dictionaries

• Eijiro

• Gogen All Guide ※

  Gives the etymology of Japanese words.

• Philosophy and Ethics Wordbook ※

  Fairly limited, but can help when translating some obscure philosophy terms. However, the best technique is just to look it up in Wikipedia then change the language with the sidebar.

• WWWJDIC

  WWWJDIC is the grandfather of all English-Japanese dictionary websites. Be sure to also try Jisho.org, which has the same open source database behind it, but puts a prettier face on the data.

Guides

• A Brief Introduction to Classical Japanese

• JGram: The Japanese Grammar Database

• Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese

  A very nice, grammar-oriented guide to learning Japanese.

Tools

• Comparative Chinese “character etymology” tool

  A useful tool by Leonardo Boiko for seeing the different forms that kanji can take (traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, Japanese) and their evolution.

• Google Translator Toolkit

• Unihan Database Lookup

  Useful if you need to know the pinyin pronunciation of Japanese character or vice versa.