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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 ...
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.
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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.
Dogra Magra (ドグラ・マグラ, Dogura Magura) is a novel considered the masterpiece of mystery writer Yumeno Kyusaku.Published in 1935 after more than 10 years of planning and writing, it is noted as one of Japan's "three great mysterious novels", alongside Oguri Mushitaro's The Black Death Mansion Murders and Nakai Hideo's An Offering to Nothingness.
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 .
Riku Onda creates complexity with three converging storylines, thus creating the effect of a story within a story.The original events of the day that the Aosawa tragedy occurred, descriptions of the interviews and writings of Makiko Saiga’s novel a decade later, and the present-day interviews, over 30 years later, that read like one-sided transcripts. [4]
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.