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When Western detective fiction spread to Japan, it created a new genre called detective fiction (tantei shōsetsu (探偵小説)) in Japanese literature. [1] After World War II the genre was renamed deductive reasoning fiction (suiri shōsetsu (推理小説)). [2] The genre is sometimes called mystery, although this includes non-detective ...
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The social mystery (社会派推理小説, shakaiha suiri shōsetsu) is a sub-genre of mystery, especially in Japan, which was established in the 1960s by works of Seichō Matsumoto. In general, this genre focuses on social issues in the manner of social realism. It pursues the context of a crime in addition to the crime itself.
Honkaku (i.e. authentic, orthodox) mystery is one of subgenres of mystery fiction that focuses on "fair play". Mystery novels written during the "Golden Age" of the mystery novel (e.g., the Ellery Queen novels) are regarded as examples of honkaku mystery.
Category: Japanese novels by genre. ... Japanese crime novels (1 C, 17 P) D. ... Japanese science fiction novels (1 C, 47 P)
Pages in category "Japanese mystery novels" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year (2003, 2013) Hideo Yokoyama ( 横山 秀夫 , Yokoyama Hideo , born 1957) is a Japanese novelist who specializes in mystery novels. He is also known for his career as a journalist for the Jomo Shimbun , the regional paper in Gunma .
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely ...