Edogawa Rampo Prize

	Edogawa Rampo Prize The , named after Edogawa Rampo, is a Japanese literary award which has been presented every year by the Mystery Writers of Japan since 1955.Fukue, Nastuko,Literary awards run spectrum, ''Japan Times'', 14 February 2012, p. 3. Though its name is similar to the Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which has been presented by Mystery Writers of America, the Edogawa Rampo Prize is not a counterpart of the Edgar Awards. The Japanese counterparts of the Edgar awards are the Mystery Writers of Japan Awards, which honor the best in crime fiction and critical/biographical work published in the previous year. The Edogawa Rampo Prize is an award for unpublished mystery novels. It is sponsored by Kodansha and Fuji Television. Not only is the novel of the winner, which is selected from more than 300 entries, published by Kodansha, but the winner also receives a prize of 10,000,000 yen. The members of the 2014 selection committee are Natsuo Kirino, Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Ira Ishida, Alice Arisugawa (:ja:有栖� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Edogawa Rampo , better known by the pen name was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the . Ranpo was an admirer of Western mystery writers, and especially of Edgar Allan Poe. His pen name is a rendering of Poe's name. 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 Kuroiwa. Biography Before World War II Tarō Hirai was born in Nabari, Mie Prefecture in 1894, where his grandfather had been a samurai in the service of Tsu Domain. His father was a merchant, who had also practiced law. The family moved to what is now Kameyama, Mie, and from there to Nagoya when he was age two. At the age of 17, he studied economics a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Kawataro Nakajima was a Japanese researcher of Japanese popular culture Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as, popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a .... See also * Shunro Oshikawa Popular culture studies Japanese writers Mystery Writers of Japan Award winners Edogawa Rampo Prize winners University of Tokyo alumni Kagoshima University alumni 1917 births 1999 deaths {{Japan-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sakae Saito Sakae may refer to: Places in Japan * Sakae, Chiba (Japanese: 栄町; ''sakae-machi''), a town in Chiba Prefecture * Sakae, Niigata (Japanese: 栄町; ''sakae-machi''), a town in Niigata Prefecture * Sakae, Nagano (Japanese: 栄村; ''sakae-mura''), a village in Nagano Prefecture * Sakae-ku, Yokohama (Japanese: 栄区; ''sakae-ku''), a ward of the city Yokohama, Kanagawa * Sakae, Nagoya (Japanese: 栄; ''sakae''), the downtown district of Nagoya (Naka-ku) Other * Sakae (given name) * Sakae Ringyo, a Japanese manufacturer of bicycle parts * Nakajima Sakae, a Japanese World War II radial aircraft engine See also Saka The Saka ( Old Persian: ; Kharoṣṭhī: ; Ancient Egyptian: , ; , old , mod. , ), Shaka (Sanskrit ( Brāhmī): , , ; Sanskrit (Devanāgarī): , ), or Sacae (Ancient Greek: ; Latin: ) were a group of nomadic Iranian peoples who hist ... , an ancient people of Central Asia {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Kyotaro Nishimura was a Japanese novelist in the police procedural genre. Career Nishimura is best known for his "train series" mysteries, most of which feature his characters, police detectives Shozo Totsugawa, Sadao Kamei and Tokitaka Honda. He won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1981 for ''The Terminal Murder Case.'' Nishimura was married to Mizue Yajima. He died from liver cancer on 3 March 2022, at the age of 91. Works in English translation ;Novel ''The Mystery Train Disappears'' (original title: Misuterī Ressha ga Kieta), trans. Gavin Frew (New York: Dembner Books, 1990) ;Short story collection ''The Isle of South Kamui and Other Stories'' (original title: Minami Kamuito), trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori (Thames River Press, 2013) ;Short story ''The Kindly Blackmailer'' (original title: Yasashii Kyōhakusha) ("Ellery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen: The Detective Story World in Japan" anthology. Edited by Ellery Queen. Rutland Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Inc. 1978. p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Masako Togawa (23 March 1931 – 26 April 2016) was a Japanese Chanson singer/songwriter, actress, feminist, novelist, lesbian icon, former night club owner, metropolitan city planning panelist, and music educator.Masako Togawa (1985). ''The Lady Killer''. Penguin. Personal life Masako Togawa grew up in "restricted circumstances" following the death of her father. She worked as a typist for five years after leaving high school, then, aged 23, she made her singing debut, at the well-known nightclub Gin-Pari. Ms Togawa had several children, the last of whom was born when she was 48 years old. Not much about her children has been made public. Ms Togawa often made public appearances with a multicoloured "Afro" hairstyle. She taught numerous musicians how to sing and compose. Chanson/club career In 1967 Ms Togawa turned her sister’s coffee shop into a nightclub, the Aoi Heya ("Blue Room"), which became a celebrity hangout, a lesbian night club, a chansonnier and, in recent years, a live m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Chin Shunshin (18 February 192421 January 2015) was a Taiwanese and Japanese novelist, translator and cultural critic. He is best known for his historical fictions and mystery novels based on Chinese and Asian history, including ''First Opium War'', ''Chinese History'', ''Ryukyu Wind''. He won numerous literary awards, including the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature and the Naoki Prize. Major works ''Roots of Dried Grass'' (枯草の根) ''House Three Colors - Showa Treasure Mysteries'' (三色の家), Fusosha ''The Sapphire Lion Incense Burner'' (青玉獅子香炉) ''Chinese History'' (中国の歴史) ''Ryukyu Wind'' (琉球の風) ''Genghis Khan's Family'' (チンギス・ハーンの一族) * Awards * The 23rd Mystery Writers of Japan Award * The 7th Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1961 for 枯草の根 * The 60th Naoki Prize (1968下) for ''The Sapphire Lion Incense Burner'' * The 26th Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature (1992) for ' See also * Ryōtarō Shiba * Japanese literatur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]