I’ve so far gathered free sites for graded readers, blogs and news sites, manga, fairy tales, picture books, short stories and novels. There’s a lot out there to read without spending any money at all!
Also, if you’re in the US you can use the Japan Foundation’s digital library for Japanese e-books! You can check that out [here](https://www.jflalc.org/libby).
https://shonenjumpplus.com has a lot of stuff. Sometime you can find the full collection of Naruto or currently running WSJ series but it’s hit or miss. The WSJ stuff has furigana usually while the Jump+ stuff often doesn’t.
I’ve found many Japanese books in Amazon Kindle.
[Tadoku](https://tadoku.org/japanese/en/free-books-en/) is one of the resources I like. It has a bunch of free books that you can sort by reading level, the lower level ones include furigana as well. The books aren’t the most interesting things in the world if I’m being honest, but if you’re looking for raw reading material that is in Japanese, it’s a good resource.
This may not be what you’re looking for, but it’s relatively easy to make a Japanese apple account and you can get access to all the Japanese apps. It’s really handy for finding resources. I’m primarily an Android user, but have an iPad that I use. There is a way to do it with Android but I’m pretty sure you have to use a VPN to fake your location idk.
https://booklive.jp. Go back to this website when you have a credit card. International credit cards are accepted.
Just search for the raw manga on Google. You’ll get a few sites.
I use Japanese bookstore and manga republic websites. Fast and friendly, decent ship times. Always been happy with them so far.
You can purchase manga in Japanese if you go to the Bookwalker’s Japanese site. I’ve bought a couple of volumes myself.
you might check your local library if you want physical, too. personally I find reading books hard to focus on digitally and need a solid book to read. it’s also more sustainable on the author side than pirating, since the amount of times a book is loaned out can affect them. if your library has an online site, you can even preemtively check there under “Japanese language” or wherever the books written in Japanese are kept.
マンガ図書館Z is free and legal.
Tachiyomi has a shit ton of manga from raw sources.
EDIT: Tachiyomi is an app you asked for a site. Sorry
Pixiv is good, but lots of NSFW stuff on there, so be aware
Legally, get a vpn and try to go on line manga, or I think webtoon can be switched to Japanese, not too sure though
bookwalker.jp – there reader is kinda crap tho, particularly on desktop, but they have alternating free content and promotions. Note: make sure it doesn’t redirect you to the global site, if you wanna search for stuff
Aozora
Also the app called “Kakuyomu”. Full books readable for free
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Tachiyomi might have a Japanese option and contains pretty much every manga I have ever searched for.
There is comic walker which is free and has a lot of manga to choose from
https://comic-walker.com/contents/list/
I collect links to free Japanese reading ressources by JLPT level [here](http://dokushoclub.com/free-reading-resources/).
I’ve so far gathered free sites for graded readers, blogs and news sites, manga, fairy tales, picture books, short stories and novels. There’s a lot out there to read without spending any money at all!
Also, if you’re in the US you can use the Japan Foundation’s digital library for Japanese e-books! You can check that out [here](https://www.jflalc.org/libby).
https://shonenjumpplus.com has a lot of stuff. Sometime you can find the full collection of Naruto or currently running WSJ series but it’s hit or miss. The WSJ stuff has furigana usually while the Jump+ stuff often doesn’t.
I’ve found many Japanese books in Amazon Kindle.
[Tadoku](https://tadoku.org/japanese/en/free-books-en/) is one of the resources I like. It has a bunch of free books that you can sort by reading level, the lower level ones include furigana as well. The books aren’t the most interesting things in the world if I’m being honest, but if you’re looking for raw reading material that is in Japanese, it’s a good resource.
This may not be what you’re looking for, but it’s relatively easy to make a Japanese apple account and you can get access to all the Japanese apps. It’s really handy for finding resources. I’m primarily an Android user, but have an iPad that I use. There is a way to do it with Android but I’m pretty sure you have to use a VPN to fake your location idk.
http://www.archives.org
https://booklive.jp. Go back to this website when you have a credit card. International credit cards are accepted.
Just search for the raw manga on Google. You’ll get a few sites.
I use Japanese bookstore and manga republic websites. Fast and friendly, decent ship times. Always been happy with them so far.
You can purchase manga in Japanese if you go to the Bookwalker’s Japanese site. I’ve bought a couple of volumes myself.
you might check your local library if you want physical, too. personally I find reading books hard to focus on digitally and need a solid book to read. it’s also more sustainable on the author side than pirating, since the amount of times a book is loaned out can affect them. if your library has an online site, you can even preemtively check there under “Japanese language” or wherever the books written in Japanese are kept.
マンガ図書館Z is free and legal.
Tachiyomi has a shit ton of manga from raw sources.
EDIT: Tachiyomi is an app you asked for a site. Sorry
Pixiv is good, but lots of NSFW stuff on there, so be aware
Legally, get a vpn and try to go on line manga, or I think webtoon can be switched to Japanese, not too sure though
A lot of free manga for children here https://kids.gakken.co.jp/himitsu/cat_library/
mangareader.to
bookwalker.jp – there reader is kinda crap tho, particularly on desktop, but they have alternating free content and promotions. Note: make sure it doesn’t redirect you to the global site, if you wanna search for stuff
Aozora
Also the app called “Kakuyomu”. Full books readable for free