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Naoyuki Uchida , who writes under his pen name Yukito Ayatsuji , is a Japanese writer of mystery and horror. He is one of the founders of Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan and one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing. His wife is Fuyumi Ono, a Japanese fantasy and horror writer who is known for her fantasy series The Twelve Kingdoms.

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Tarō Hirai , better known by the pseudonym Edogawa Ranpo , also romanized as Edogawa Rampo, was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery 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 "Boy Detectives Club" .

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Shinichi Hoshi was a Japanese novelist and science fiction writer best known for his "short-short" science fiction stories, often no more than three or four pages in length, of which he wrote over 1000. He also wrote mysteries and won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Mōsō Ginkō in 1968.

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Koshi Kurumizawa was the pen-name of a writer of detective fiction in Shōwa period Japan. His real name was Shimizu Masatarō.

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Seichō Matsumoto was a Japanese writer.

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Tsutomu Mizukami , also known as Minakami Tsutomu, was a popular and prolific Japanese author of novels, detective stories, biographies, and plays. He won the Tanizaki Prize and the Naoki Prize, and many of his stories were made into movies.

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Ramo Nakajima was a respected Japanese cult novel writer, essayist, and copywriter, and he also appeared frequently on Japanese TV as an actor. He was born in Amagasaki City, Hyōgo Prefecture.

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Kyotaro Nishimura is a Japanese novelist of Police procedural. 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.

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Shōhei Ōoka was a Japanese novelist, literary critic, and lecturer and translator of French literature who was active during the Shōwa period of Japan. Ōoka belongs to the group of postwar writers whose World War II experiences at home and abroad figure prominently in their works. Over his lifetime, he contributed short stories and critical essays to almost every literary magazine in Japan.

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Ango Sakaguchi was a Japanese novelist and essayist. His real name was Heigo Sakaguchi.

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Akimitsu Takagi , was the pen-name of a popular Japanese crime fiction writer active during the Shōwa period of Japan. His real name was Takagi Seiichi.

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Katsuhiko Takahashi is a Japanese writer of mystery, horror, science fiction and historical fiction. He is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan.

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Seishi Yokomizo was a Japanese novelist.