List of Japanese speculative fiction writers

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This is a list of Japanese speculative fiction writers. Writers are sorted alphabetically by surname.

A[]

  • Kimifusa Abe (安部公房, real name of Kōbō Abe)
  • Kōbō Abe (安部公房, 1924–1993)
  • Hirotaka Adachi (安達寛高, real name of Otsuichi)
  • Jirō Akagawa (赤川次郎, b. 1948)
  • Mizuhito Akiyama (秋山瑞人, b. 1971)
  • Motoko Arai (新井素子, b. 1960)
  • Mizuhito Akiyama (秋山瑞人, b. 1971)
  • Kunio Aramaki (荒巻邦夫, real name of Yoshio Aramaki)
  • Yoshimasa Aramaki (荒巻義雅, real name of Yoshio Aramaki)
  • Yoshio Aramaki (荒巻義雄, b. 1933)
  • Hiroshi Aramata (荒俣宏, b. 1947)
  • Alice Arisugawa or Arisu Arisugawa (有栖川有栖, b. 1959)
  • Taku Ashibe (芦辺拓, b. 1958)
  • Yukito Ayatsuji (綾辻行人, b. 1960)

B–D[]

  • Chen Shunchen (陳舜臣, pseudonym of Chin Shunshin)
  • Chen Soon Shin (陳舜臣, pseudonym of Chin Shunshin)
  • Kimio Chiba (千葉喜美雄, real name of Ryu Mitsuse)
  • Chihitsudō (遅筆堂, pseudonym of Hisashi Inoue)
  • Chin Shunshin (陳舜臣, 1924–2015)
  • Gakuto Coda, Gakuto Kōda (甲田学人, b. 1977)

E–G[]

  • Toh EnJoe or Tō Enjō (円城塔, b. 1972)
  • Taiyo Fujii or Taiyō Fujii (藤井太洋, b. 1971)
  • Masako Fukae (深江雅子, real name of Masako Mori)
  • Masami Fukushima (福島正実, 1929–1976)

H[]

  • Ryō Hanmura or Ryō Hammura (半村良 1933–2002)
  • Hideshi Hino (日野日出志 1946)
  • Akira Hori (堀晃 b. 1944)
  • Shinichi Hoshi or Shin'ichi Hoshi (星新一 1926-1997)

I–J[]

  • Kimio Iizuka (飯塚喜美雄, real name of Ryu Mitsuse)
  • Sumiyo Imaoka (今岡純代, real name of Kaoru Kurimoto)
  • Hisashi Inoue (井上ひさし, 1934–2010)
  • Fujio Ishihara (石原藤夫, b. 1933)
  • Junji Ito or Junji Itō (伊藤潤二. b. 1963)
  • Keikaku Itō (伊藤計劃, pseudonym of Project Itoh)
  • Satoshi Itō (伊藤聡, real name of Project Itoh)
  • Shimako Iwai (岩井志麻子, b. 1964)

K–L[]

  • Shinji Kajio (梶尾真治. b. 1947)
  • Chōhei Kambayashi or Chōhei Kanbayashi (神林長平, b. 1953)
  • Musashi Kanbe (かんべむさし, b. 1948)
  • Hajime Kanzaka (神坂一, b. 1964)
  • Kyō Katō (加藤喬, pseudonym of Masami Fukushima)
  • Masami Katō (加藤正実, pseudonym of Masami Fukushima)
  • Chiaki Kawamata (川又千秋, b. 1948)
  • Hideyuki Kikuchi (菊地秀行, b. 1949)
  • Yusuke Kishi or Yūsuke Kishi (貴志祐介, b. 1959)
  • Morio Kita (北杜夫, 1927–2011)
  • Heitarō Kiyono (清野平太郎, real name of Ryō Hanmura)
  • Yasumi Kobayashi (小林泰三, b. 1962)
  • Gakuto Koda or Gakuto Kōda (甲田学人)
  • Izuki Kogyoku or Izuki Kōgyoku (紅玉いづき, b. 1984)
  • Minoru Komatsu (小松実, real name of Sakyo Komatsu)
  • Sakyo Komatsu or Sakyō Komatsu (小松左京, 1931–2011)
  • Chiaki J. Konaka or Chiaki Konaka (小中千昭, b. 1961)
  • Yoji Kondo or Yōji Kondō (近藤陽次, 1933–2017)
  • Eric Kotani, pseudonym of Yoji Kondo)
  • Rei Kozumi (小隅黎, pseudonym of Takumi Shibano)
  • Kaoru Kurimoto (栗本薫, 1953–2009)
  • Ken Kuronuma (黒沼健, 1902–1985)

M[]

  • Gorō Masaki (柾悟郎, b. 1957)
  • Jun Masaki (真木じゅん, pseudonym of Jun'ya Yokota)
  • Taku Mayumura (眉村卓, b. 1934)
  • Gakuto Mikumo (三雲岳斗, b. 1970)
  • Hiroko Minagawa (皆川博子, b. 1930)
  • Ryu Mitsuse or Ryū Mitsuse (光瀬龍, 1928–1999)
  • Miyuki Miyabe (宮部みゆき, b. 1960)
  • Masako Mori (森真沙子, b. 1944)
  • Hiroyuki Morioka (森岡浩之, b. 1962)
  • Daijiro Morohoshi (諸星大二郎, b. 1949) manga artist
  • Haruki Murakami (村上春樹, b. 1949)

N[]

  • Norio Nakai (中井紀夫, b. 1952)
  • Azusa Nakajima (中島梓, pseudonym of Kaoru Kurimoto)
  • Azusa Noa (野阿梓, b. 1954)
  • Hōsuke Nojiri (野尻抱介, b. 1961)
  • Asa Nonami (乃南アサ, b. 1960)
  • Mahokaru Numata (沼田まほかる, b. 1948)

O–R[]

  • Kenzaburō Ōe (大江健三郎, b. 1935)
  • Issui Ogawa (小川一水, b. 1975)
  • Noriko Ogiwara (荻原規子, b. 1959)
  • Mariko Ōhara (大原まり子, b. 1959)
  • Fuyumi Ono (小野不由美, b. 1960)
  • Masaari Oshikawa (押川方存, real name of Shunrō Oshikawa)
  • Shunrō Oshikawa (押川春浪, 1876–1914)
  • Otsuichi (乙一, b. 1978)
  • Project Itoh or Keikaku Itō (伊藤計劃, 1974–2009)
  • Ryukishi07 (竜騎士07, b. 1973)

S[]

  • Hiroshi Sakurazaka (桜坂洋, b. 1970)
  • Shōichi Sano (佐野昌一, real name of Unno Juza)
  • Yūichi Sasamoto (笹本祐一, b. 1963)
  • Daisuke Satō (佐藤大輔, 1964–2017)
  • Sōkichi Saitō (斎藤宗吉, real name of Morio Kita)
  • Hideaki Sena (瀬名秀明, b. 1968)
  • Takumi Shibano (柴野拓美, 1926–2010)
  • Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (澁澤龍彦, 1928–1987)
  • Tatsuo Shibusawa (澁澤龍雄, real name of Tatsuhiko Shibusawa)
  • Yoshinori Shimizu (清水義範, b. 1947)
  • Kazuma Shinjō (新城カズマ)
  • Setsuko Shinoda (篠田節子, b. 1955)
  • Hiroe Suga (菅浩江, b. 1963)
  • Taidō Sugiyama (杉山泰道, real name (Buddhist name) Yumeno Kyūsaku)
  • Koji Suzuki, Kōji Suzuki (鈴木光司, b. 1957)

T[]

  • Kiyoshi Takayanagi (高柳清, real name of Chōhei Kambayashi)
  • Haruka Takachiho (高千穂遙, b. 1951)
  • Akimitsu Takagi (高木彬光, 1920–1995)
  • Seiichi Takagi (高木誠一, real name of Akimitsu Takagi)
  • Katsuhiko Takahashi (高橋克彦, b. 1947)
  • Haneko Takayama (高山羽根子, b. 1975)
  • Kimiyoshi Takekawa (竹川公訓, real name of Haruka Takachiho)
  • Kōshū Tani (谷甲州, b. 1951)
  • Nagaru Tanigawa (谷川流, b. 1970)
  • Hirotaka Tobi (飛浩隆, b. 1960)
  • Eiji Tsuburaya (円谷英二, 1901–1970)
  • Eiichi Tsumuraya (圓谷英一, real name of Eiji Tsuburaya)
  • Yasutaka Tsutsui (筒井康隆, b. 1934)

U–V[]

  • Tow Ubukata or Tō Ubukata (冲方丁, b. 1977)
  • Naoyuki Uchida (内田直行, real name of Yukito Ayatsuji)
  • Hisashi Uchiyama (内山廈, pseudonym of Hisashi Inoue)
  • Sayuri Ueda (上田早夕里, b. 1964)
  • Masahide Uehara (上原正英, real name of Alice Arisugawa)
  • Nahoko Uehashi (上橋菜穂子, b. 1962)
  • Kazuo Umezu (楳図かずお, b. 1936) manga artist
  • Unno Juza, Unno Jūza, or Unno Jūzō (海野十三, 1897–1949)
  • Gen Urobuchi (虚淵玄, b. 1972)

W–Z[]

  • Soichiro Watase or Sōichirō Watase (渡瀬草一郎, b. 1978)
  • Masaki Yamada (山田正紀, b. 1950)
  • Bochō Yamamura (山村暮鳥, 1884–1924)
  • Tetsu Yano (矢野徹, 1923–2004)
  • Jun'ya Yokota (横田順彌 or 横田順弥, 1945–2019)
  • Baku Yumemakura (夢枕獏, b. 1951)
  • Yumeno Kyūsaku (夢野久作, 1889–1936)

See also[]

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