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Niki Etsuko (Japanese: 仁木悦子; 1928–1986) was a Japanese novelist, noted for becoming the first female Japanese writer of mystery fiction to achieve widespread recognition and commercial success. Niki was born in Tokyo and began writing fiction after a childhood bout of polio left her unable to walk.
Pages in category "Japanese feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 543 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Female: Origin; Word/name: Japanese: Meaning: ... Takako is a feminine Japanese given name. Written forms ... a character from the mystery horror novel Another and ...
Female: Origin; Word/name: Japanese: Meaning: different meanings depending on the Kanji: Other names; Related names: Misa Misako Misumi: Misaki (みさき, ミサキ ...
Edogawa Rampo is the first Japanese modern mystery writer and the founder of the Detective Story Club in Japan. Rampo was an admirer of western mystery writers. He gained his fame in early 1920s, when he began to bring to the genre many bizarre, erotic and even fantastic elements. This is partly because of the social tension before World War II ...
Japanese names (日本人の氏名、日本人の姓名、日本人の名前, Nihonjin no shimei, Nihonjin no seimei, Nihonjin no namae) in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name. Japanese names are usually written in kanji, where the pronunciation follows a special set of rules. Because parents when naming ...
Tarō Hirai (平井 太郎, Hirai Tarō, October 21, 1894 – July 28, 1965), better known by the pen name Edogawa Ranpo (江戸川 乱歩), [a] was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction.
Aki, a female ninja and Japanese agent played by Akiko Wakabayashi in the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice. Wakabayashi convinced director Lewis Gilbert to change the name of her character to one closer to her own; Akiko Hiroguchi, a girl born with fur in the 1985 Kurt Vonnegut novel Galápagos