Japanese Crime

In the Chizurui family mansion, a haunting presence casts a shadow over its residents. By night, an eerie figure, clad in a sinister Hannya mask is seen roaming around the house. An amateur murder mystery writer, Akimitsu Takagi, is sent to investigate—but his investigation takes a harrowing turn as tragedy strikes. Within the confines of a locked study, the head of the family is found dead, with only an ominous Hannya mask lying on the floor by his side and the lingering scent of jasmine in the air.

A riveting account of the role of Americans in the evolution of the Tokyo underworld in the years since 1945. In the ashes of postwar Japan lay a gold mine for certain opportunistic, expatriate Americans. Addicted to the volatile energy of Tokyo's freewheeling underworld, they formed...

Yutaka Tanaka, señor feudal de la provincia de Sagami, debe vengar la muerte de su padre, asesinado por una banda de samuráis enmascarados. La investigación del crimen lo arroja a los campos de batalla, a las intrigas cortesanas y sus traiciones. Como un príncipe Hamlet perdido entre los pliegues de un país que no llega a comprender, Yutaka enfrentará la fascinación de los autómatas, las maniobras sentimentales de dama Ashikaga y los secretos del sokushinbutsu.

A class president among class presidents, a bespectacled model student who soars to the top of honors lists without fail, Tsubasa Hanekawa also happens to be a decent human being. True, she does have a habit of making single-minded assumptions, but they come from a good place and turn out to be...

With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that implicates its reader in a heinous crime. Delving relentlessly into the darkest corners of human consciousness, My Annihilation interrogates the unspeakable thoughts all humans share that can be monstrous when brought to life, revealing with disturbing honesty the psychological motives of a killer.

“I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami.” —Haruki Murakami From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s. Hana...

Bakemono, literally “altered thing,” which translates as “monster.” Monogatari, literally “thing narrated,” which translates as “tale.” Combined into a neologism by he of the reversible nom de plume, they yield BAKEMONOGATARI, the monster tale that kicked off a series whose anime...

From the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a mesmerizing novel of eleven strange buildings and one terrible secret. A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison. . . . Each of the buildings...

Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute. He’s tough looking, a hard case. His cellmate is Cal—the mute tattoo artist of the prison who murdered his own wife. Ken, already inked with a gang symbol and a Japanese emblem, eventually asks Cal to create an elaborate tattoo on his back, in kanji script, of Musashi’s Book of the Void.

A Japanese The Thursday Murder Club, taking healing fiction for a mystery-filled spin with this bestseller that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Japan. He’s not your average Grandpa. As a lover of classic crime stories, it’s no surprise that schoolteacher Kaede encounters everyday...

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high...

The acclaimed author of Occupied City, Tokyo Year Zero, and The Red Riding Quartet now gives us a stunning work of fiction in twelve connected tales that take up the strange, brief life of the brilliant twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Haunting and evocative, brutal and...

Since the beginning of civilization, crime and injustice has existed. At the same time, gangs in all shapes and sizes have been around, from rebels, dissidents, and rogue soldiers to the average circle of miscreants loitering in alleys and behind convenience stores. In Japan, a gang of a different breed would arise - one underscored by honor, respect, family, and a code of ethics. They are the Yakuza. The Yakuza claim to be the Robin Hoods of the Far East. While they may lean towards the other side of the law, justice is all they truly aim for.

During the National High School Cultural Festival ceremony, Yoshiyuki Shimizu - the current Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and a literary giant - was fatally stabbed by a man who rushed out from backstage. The arrested suspect, 37-year-old Akatsuki Nagase, began publishing his memoirs in a weekly magazine following his arrest.

In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to World War II. The story unfolds against the backdrop of a three-country struggle for control of Manchuria—an area some called China's "Wild East"—and an explosive mixture of nationalities, religions, and ideologies. Semyon Kaspe, a young Jewish musician, is kidnapped, tortured, and ultimately murdered by disaffected, antisemitic White Russians, secretly acting on the orders of Japanese military overlords who covet his father's wealth.

大ベストセラー「道警」シリーズ待望の第2シーズン開幕!!!あの佐伯宏一が戻ってきた。札幌大通署ではなく、函館方面本部捜査課に、警部として――。(創立30周年記念作品)厚真で強盗殺人事件を起こした犯人の一人が札幌ジャズバー「ブラックバード」に立てこもり、機動捜査隊の津久井に発砲した事件から約一年。

十月下旬、ほぼ同時期に三つの死体が発見された。函館で転落死体、釧路で溺死体、小樽で焼死体。それぞれ事件性があると判断され、津久井卓は小樽の事件を追っていた。一方、小島百合は札幌で女子児童が何者かに車で連れ去られたとの通報を受け捜査に向かう。偶然とは思えない三つの不審死と誘拐。

夏休み。鉄道好きで〈スーパーおおぞら〉に憧れる僕は、ある日出会った男性に小樽の鉄道博物館へ連れて行ってもらえることに。最高の夏になると信じていたのに、こんな大ごとになるなんて──。生活安全課の小島百合は、老舗店で万引きした男子小学生を補導した。署に連れて行くも少年に逃げられてしまう。一方、刑事課の佐伯宏一は園芸店窃盗犯を追っていた。

轢き逃げの通報を受け臨場した大通署機動捜査隊の津久井卓は、事故ではなく事件の可能性があることを知る。その頃、生活安全課の小島百合は駅前交番で保護された九歳の女の子の引き取りに向かう。一方、脳梗塞で倒れた父を引き取るために百合と別れた佐伯宏一は仕事と介護の両立に戸惑っていた。そんな佐伯に事務所荒らしの事案が舞い込む……。

五月下旬、生活安全課の小島百合は以前ストーカー犯罪から守った村瀬香里とピアノのミニ・コンサートに行くことになった。先に会場であるワインバーに着いた小島は、そこで人質立てこもり事件に遭遇する。犯人は、強姦殺人の冤罪で四年間服役していた中島喜美夫。男は謝罪を要求するが……。警察小説の金字塔、大ベストセラー「道警シリーズ」第六弾、新装版!