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2. Soji Shimada - Wikipedia

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   Soji Shimada graduated from Seishikan High School in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, and later Musashino Art University as a Commercial arts design major. [1]After spending years as a dump truck driver, free writer, and musician, he made his debut as a mystery writer in 1981 when The Tokyo Zodiac Murders was shortlisted for the Edogawa Rampo Prize. [2]

3. Edogawa Ranpo - Wikipedia

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   Ranpo was an admirer of Western mystery writers, and especially of Edgar Allan Poe. His pen name is a rendering of Poe's name. [2] Other authors who were special influences on him were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whom he attempted to translate into Japanese during his days as a student at Waseda University, and the Japanese mystery writer Ruikō ...

4. Mystery Writers of Japan - Wikipedia

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   Mystery Writers of Japan (Japanese: 日本推理作家協会, Hepburn: Nihon Suiri Sakka Kyōkai) is an organization for mystery writers in Japan. The organization was founded on 21 June 1947 by Edogawa Rampo. [1] It is currently chaired by Natsuhiko Kyogoku and claims about 600 members. It presents the Mystery Writers of Japan Award to writers ...

5. Yukio Mishima - Wikipedia

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   Mishima began to write his first stories aged 12, taking inspiration from myths (Kojiki, Greek mythology, etc.) and the works of numerous classic Japanese authors, as well as Raymond Radiguet, Jean Cocteau, Oscar Wilde, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Nietzsche, Charles Baudelaire, l'Isle-Adam, and other European authors.

6. Japanese detective fiction - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Mahokaru Numata - Wikipedia

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   Mahokaru Numata (沼田まほかる, Numata Mahokaru, born 1948) is a Japanese crime fiction and horror writer. There has been an iyamisu (eww mystery) boom in Japan since around 2012. Iyamisu (eww mystery) is a subgenre of mystery fiction which deals with grisly episodes and the dark side of human nature.

8. Natsuo Kirino - Wikipedia

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   She is most famous for her 1997 novel, Out, which received the Mystery Writers of Japan Award, Japan's top mystery award, and was a finalist (in English translation) for the 2004 Edgar Award. [2] In addition, Kirino received the 1993 Edogawa Rampo Prize for mystery fiction for her debut novel , Kao ni Furikakaru Ame (Rain Falling on My Face ...

9. The Honjin Murders - Wikipedia

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   The Honjin Murders (本陣殺人事件, Honjin satsujin jiken) is a mystery novel by Seishi Yokomizo. It was serialized in the magazine Houseki from April to December 1946, and won the first Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1948. It was filmed as Death at an Old Mansion in 1975.