Japanese learners and Japanese LinqQ users – Do you know of any good sites with high-quality reading material in Japanese? Specifically, essays, analysis, commentary, or short stories?
The best I know of is Wired Japan and (sometimes) Newsweek Japan because the underlying content is relatable even to non-Japanese like myself (I find Japanese local and national news to be rather boring). I also tried Monogatari for the short stories, but the quality was inconsistent since the content is from amateurs and the material is not professionally edited.
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I’ve stumbled upon this site, that has comprehensible input material for a lot of languages, you might want to take a look. Also this exists.
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If you are at an advanced level and interested in works from many decades ago, take a look at Aozora Bunko 青空文庫. There is an English language Wikipedia page describing Aozora Bunko, and Aozora Bunko has its own FAQ (frequently asked questions) page.
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Looks neat. I’ll dig through what they have there. Thanks!
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I’ll check it out. I should start getting into the older stuff. Thanks!
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Oh, baguettenjoyer, that’s great! Although you didn’t provide this link for me personally, a huge THANK YOU anyway! 
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Wow! Glad I stumbled into this tread.
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