Japanese classics in English translation

Read Murasaki Shikibu, Natsume Soseki, Nitobe Inazo and other Japanese classics in English, with a translation into Russian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese or Chinese aligned under every sentence. A story you already know makes English reading dramatically easier.

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