Japanese detective fiction
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History
Name
When Western detective fiction spread to Japan, it created a new genre called detective fiction (Script error: No such module "Nihongo".) in Japanese literature.[1] After World War II the genre was renamed deductive reasoning fiction (Script error: No such module "Nihongo".).[2] The genre is sometimes called mystery, although this includes non-detective fiction as well.
Development
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Since the 1980s, a Script error: No such module "Nihongo". has surfaced. It demands restoration of the classic rules of detective fiction and the use of more self-reflective elements, largely inspired by the works of Ellery Queen and John Dickson Carr. Famous authors of this movement include Soji Shimada, Yukito Ayatsuji, Rintaro Norizuki, Alice Arisugawa, Kaoru Kitamura and Taku Ashibe.
Quotation
Japanese mystery awards
- Awards for best works published in the previous year
- Mystery Writers of Japan Award (since 1948) - awarded by Mystery Writers of Japan (founded in 1947)
- Honkaku Mystery Award (since 2001) - awarded by Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan (founded in 2000)
- Awards for lifetime achievement
- Japan Mystery Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement (ja) (since 1998)
- Awards for unpublished mystery novels
- Edogawa Rampo Prize (since 1955) - awarded by Mystery Writers of Japan
- Yokomizo Seishi Mystery Award (ja) (since 1981)
- Ayukawa Tetsuya Award (ja) (since 1990)
- Mephisto Prize (since 1996)
- Japan Mystery Literature Award for New Writers (ja) (since 1998)
- Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Award (ja) (since 2002)
- Fukuyama Mystery Literature Award for New Writers (ja) (since 2009)
- Agatha Christie Award (since 2011)
- Shincho Mystery Award (since 2014)
Top book lists of mystery fiction published in Japan
Japanese mystery writers
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Aozora Bunko
Listed below are Japanese mystery writers whose works are available in Aozora Bunko, a Japanese digital library.
Ruiko Kuroiwa's short story Muzan (1889)[1], which is also available in Aozora Bunko, is one of the earliest Japanese detective stories.
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Japanese detective manga series
- Case Closed aka Detective Conan (written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama)
- Kindaichi Case Files (written by Yōzaburō Kanari or Seimaru Amagi and illustrated by Fumiya Satō)
- Q.E.D. (written and illustrated by Motohiro Katō)
- Detective School Q (written by Seimaru Amagi and illustrated by Fumiya Satō)
Video game adaptions
There are visual novels and adventure games that take inspiration from this fiction genre.
- The Portopia Serial Murder Case, a 1983 video game by Enix.
- Nintendo has published many video game adaptations of the Japanese detective fiction formula, starting with the Famicom Detective Club franchise. They also published a Detective Pikachu video game, which itself adapted into a 2019 film.
- The Ace Attorney series of games by Capcom are based on this genre and take place in a courtroom.
See also
- Golden Age of Detective Fiction
- Detective fiction
- Mystery fiction
- Crime fiction
- Japanese literature
- Japanese horror
- Japanese science fiction
- Japan Three Great Mysteries (ja)
- Category:Japanese mystery writers
- Category:Japanese crime fiction writers
Explanatory notes
References
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- ↑ Tsumao Awasaka at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Toshihiko Yahagi at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Atsunori Tomatsu at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Arisu Arisugawa at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Shogo Utano at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Kaoru Takamura Template:Webarchive at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Bin Konno at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Setsuko Shinoda at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Naomi Azuma at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Hideo Okuda at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Arata Tendo at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Yuichi Shimpo at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Tokuro Nukui at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Fumie Kondo at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Yutaka Maya at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Mahokaru Numata at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Shunichi Doba at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Kazuaki Takano at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Ryosuke Kakine at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Koji Yanagi at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Tokuya Higashigawa at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Tetsuya Honda at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Kanae Minato at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Shusuke Michio at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Honobu Yonezawa at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Mizuki Tsujimura Template:Webarchive at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ En Mikami at J'Lit Books from Japan
- ↑ Aki Hamanaka at J'Lit Books from Japan
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External links
- Zoom Japon, June 1, 2010, pp 4–7 Template:In lang
- List of Japanese mystery fiction in English translation at Euro Crime