Japanese/Reader

Children's texts

 * /Issunboushi/
 * /The Tongue-Cut Sparrow/
 * /Kasa Jizo/
 * /Cracking Mountain/
 * /The Crab and The Monkey/
 * /Momotaro/
 * /Urashimataro/
 * /Yamamba/
 * /Tanabata/
 * Aesop's Fables - The North Wind and the Sun (イソップ童話: 北風と太陽)
 * /Pocket Watch/ (懐中時計)

Simple texts

 * /夢十夜/ (Ten Nights of Dreams by Natsume Sōseki)
 * /第三夜/ (The third night)
 * /第七夜/ (The seventh night))
 * Aesop's fables translated and read

Advanced texts

 * Under the Cherry Trees (桜の樹の下には)
 * Run, Melos! (走れメロス)
 * Be not Defeated by the Rain (雨ニモマケズ)
 * The Restaurant that Has Many Orders (注文の多い料理店)
 * Night on the Galactic Railroad (銀河鉄道の夜)
 * I Am a Cat (吾輩は猫である)
 * Rails (線路)
 * Bring into focus (焦点を合せる)
 * Girl's Hell (少女地獄)

Other texts

 * Japanese Wikipedia
 * Soseki's Merits and Demerits of isms
 * Soseki's Botchan
 * Japanese Text Initiative Fully searchable premodern texts with English or Japanese interface
 * Aozora Bunko Texts whose copyright has expired
 * Noh Plays

Philosophy/Political science

 * 貝原益軒 (Kaibara Ekiken, 1630-1714)
 * 養生訓 (Yōjōkun: Precepts for the preservation of health)
 * 和俗童子訓 (Wazoku dōjikun: Precepts for Japanese common children)
 * 山本常朝 (Yamamoto Jōchō, 1659-1719)
 * 葉隠 (Hagakure: Hidden by the Leaves) - The book of Samurai in Saga Domain
 * 福沢諭吉 (Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1835-1901)
 * 学問のすすめ (Encouragement of Learning)
 * 五来欣造 (Gorai Kinzō, 1875-1944)
 * 儒教の独逸政治思想に及ぼせる影響 (How did confucianism affect to German political philosophy)
 * ファッショか共産主義か (Fascism or Communism)

Memoirs

 * 久保田栄吉 (Ōkubo Ēkichi, 1887-)
 * 赤露二年の獄中生活 (Prison Life in Red Russia for two years)

Old Songs

 * Cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms (さくら さくら) さくら　さくら　やよいの空は
 * Soap Bubbles (シャボン玉) シャボン玉飛んだ 屋根まで飛んだ
 * The Red Shoes (赤い靴)　赤い靴　はいてた　女の子
 * 10,000 Feet up the Alps (アルプス一万尺)　アルプス一万尺　小槍の上で
 * The glow of a firefly (蛍の光) 蛍の光 窓の雪
 * The Gondola Song (ゴンドラの唄) いのち短し、恋せよ乙女
 * Katyusha's song (カチューシャの唄) カチューシャかわいや わかれのつらさ
 * The Boatman Ballad (船頭小唄) おれは河原の 枯すすき

National Song

 * Kimigayo (君が代) 君が代は 千代に八千代に

War Songs

 * Patriotic March (愛国行進曲) 見よ東海の空あけて
 * Umi Yukaba (海行かば) 海行かば 水漬く屍

Hymn

 * Stand Up! Stand Up for Jesus! (立てよいざ立て)

Warabe Uta

 * Kagome Kagome (かごめ　かごめ) かごめかごめ 籠の中の鳥は
 * Hana Ichi Monme (はないちもんめ) 勝ってうれしい花いちもんめ、負けて悔しい花いちもんめ
 * Tōryanse (通りゃんせ)　通りゃんせ　通りゃんせ　ここはどこの　細通じゃ
 * ずいずいずっころばし ずいずいずっころばし ごまみそずい
 * Where are you from? (あんたがたどこさ) あんたがたどこさ 肥後さ 肥後どこさ 熊本さ
 * Snow (雪) 雪やこんこ 霰やこんこ.

Old Japanese texts

 * /The Pillow Book/ (枕草子) - 春はあけぼの
 * /Tsurezuregusa/ (徒然草) - つれづれなるままに
 * /The Tale of the Heike/ (平家物語) - 祇園精舎の鐘の声 諸行無常の響きあり
 * /Matsuo Basho's Haiku/
 * The Tosa Diary (土佐日記) - 男もすなる日記といふものを、女もしてみむとてするなり.

Old Japanese texts written in Classical Chinese

 * /Manyoshu/ (万葉集)

Transcription of Classical Chinese into Japanese
Classical Chinese was communication language between Japan, Korea, China and Vietnam until WWII.
 * /Shunbou/ (春望) - 国破れて山河在り (国破レテ山河在リ)
 * /Shungyou/ (春暁) - 春眠暁を覚えず (春眠不ずレ覺エレ曉ヲ)

Weird Books

 * native Japanese reading with annotations of Water Margin (標註訓訳　水滸伝　一) - Transcription of Written Vernacular Chinese into Japanese
 * Mix-up Secret plan (混同秘策) - agricultural book for world domination plan written in Sakoku period

Travel guide

 * South Manchu travel guide, 1917 (南満洲鉄道旅行案内)
 * Taiwan train travel guide, 1927 (台湾鉄道旅行案内)
 * America travel guide, 1927 (米国旅行案内)
 * Sakhalin train travel guide, 1928 (樺太の鉄道旅行案内)
 * Korea travel guide, 1934 (朝鮮旅行案内記)
 * The Trans-Siberian Express - Shortest route from the Far East to Europe, 1933 (欧州旅行の最短距離 シベリヤ急行鉄道)