1. Akiko Yosano (1878)

Japanese Writer

Renowned and controversial Japanese poet, writer, feminist, and pacifist who wrote between 20,000 and 50,000 poems. She is perhaps best known for an anti-war poem entitled "Kimi Shinitamou koto nakare"...

2. Eiji Yoshikawa (1892)

Japanese Writer

A Japanese author known for his historical adventure novels containing elements of Japanese culture and folklore, he is most famous for his 1935 novel, Miyamoto Musashi. His other works include...

3. Edogawa Ranpo (1894)

Japanese Writer

Best known for his mystery novels and stories featuring the detective character of Kogoro Akechi, this popular Japanese writer published such individual titles as The Human Leopard, The Conjurer, and...

4. Momoko Ishii (1907)

Japanese Writer

Notable as a writer and translator of works for children, Momoko Ishii is particularly remembered for her debut, bestselling work Non Chan Kumo Ni Noru.

5. Daisaku Ikeda (1928)

Japanese Writer

Entrepreneur, teacher, and religious figure who founded Soka Gakkai International, a lay Buddhist group with millions of followers. He served as president of Soka Gakkai, the original, Japanese chapter of...

6. Yuyuko Takemiya (1978)

Japanese Writer

Light novel author who rose to fame with her debut series Watashitachi no Tamura-kun. She has since become known for series like Toradora!, Golden Time, and Evergreen. 

7. Koji Suzuki (1957)

Japanese Writer

Famous for his acclaimed Ring series of novels, which includes the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize-winning work Spiral (1995), and for his Dark Water short story collection (1996), he is also notable...

8. Reki Kawahara (1974)

Japanese Writer

Reki Kawahara is the Japanese author of the light novels and manga Accel World and Sword Art Online. Both series have been adapted into anime. The Sword Art Online series...

9. Keiichiro Hirano (1975)

Japanese Writer

Keiichirō Hirano is a Japanese novelist. Hirano was born in Gamagori Aichi prefecture Japan. He published his first novel in 1998 and won the Akutagawa Prize the next year as...

10. Ineko Sata (1904)

Japanese Writer

Ineko Sata was a Japanese communist and feminist author of proletarian literature.

11. Kanae Minato (1973)

Japanese Writer

Kanae Minato is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thriller. She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award....

12. Tsuneko Nakazato (1909)

Japanese Writer

Tsuneko Nakazato was the pen-name of a novelist in Showa period Japan. Her real name was Nakazato Tsune.

13. Atsuko Anzai (1927)

Japanese Writer

Atsuko Anzai is a Japanese woman novelist in Shōwa and Heisei period Japan. Anzai has concentrated her efforts on stories set in China with historical themes or on contemporary stories...

14. Ayako Sono (1931)

Japanese Writer

Ayako Sono is a Catholic Japanese writer. She went to the Catholic Sacred Heart School in Tokyo after elementary school. During World War II she evacuated to Kanazawa.

15. Sakae Saitō (Unknow)

Japanese Writer

Sakae Saitō is a Japanese author of popular fiction active during the Showa and Heisei periods of Japan.

16. Seiichi Morimura (Unknow)

Japanese Writer

Seiichi Morimura is a Japanese novelist and author. He is best known for the controversial The Devil's Gluttony which revealed the atrocities committed by Unit 731 of the Imperial...

17. Hisako Matsubara (1935)

Japanese Writer

Hisako Matsubara is a Japanese novelist who writes in German and English as well. Born as the daughter of prominent Shinto priest she went to high school in Kyoto. She...

18. Eiko Kadono (Unknow)

Japanese Writer

Eiko Kadono Eiko Watanabe is a Japanese author of children's literature picture books non-fiction and essays in Shōwa and Heisei period Japan.

19. Naoki Inose (1946)

Japanese Writer

Naoki Inose is a Japanese journalist historian social critic and biographer of literary figures such as Yukio Mishima and Osamu Dazai. He served as Vice Governor of Tokyo from June...

20. Atsushi Yoshimoto (1982)

Japanese Writer

Atsushi Yoshimoto is a former Japanese football player.

21. Chōhei Kambayashi (1953)

Japanese Writer

Chōhei Kambayashi is a Japanese science fiction writer. Born in Niigata Kambayashi graduated Nagaoka National College of Technology. He debuted in 1979 with the short story Dance with a...

22. Kaoru Kurimoto (1953)

Japanese Writer

Kaoru Kurimoto was the pen name of Sumiyo Imaoka an award-winning Japanese novelist. Imaoka also used the pen name Azusa Nakajima to write criticism. She was known for her record-breaking...

23. Akira Hori (1944)

Japanese Writer

Akira Hori is a Japanese science fiction writer. He has been involved in science fiction since high school and has a degree from Osaka University in engineering. He won the...

24. Kenichi Yamakawa (1953)

Japanese Writer

Kenichi Yamakawa is a Japanese author and rock musician.

25. Shinji Kajio (1947)

Japanese Writer

Shinji Kajio is an award winning Japanese author of science fiction and fantasy. The film Yomigaeri is based on a novel by him and he also co-wrote the Omoide Emanon...

26. Chiaki Kawamata (1948)

Japanese Writer

Chiaki Kawamata is a Japanese science fiction writer and critic. Chiaki Kawamata has won both the Seiun Award and the Nihon SF Taisho Award. Chaki Kawamata is also noted for...

27. Takumi Nakazawa (1976)

Japanese Writer

Takumi Nakazawa is a Japanese video game writer and founder of the visual novel publishing company Regista. He worked at KID from 1998 until 2004 leaving to form Regista...

28. Tetsuo Takashima (1949)

Japanese Writer

Tetsuo Takashima is a popular contemporary Japanese author active in a number of genres that include science fiction mystery fiction historical fiction social commentary and juvenile fiction.

29. Hirotada Ototake (1976)

Japanese Writer

Hirotada Ototake is a Japanese sports writer from Tokyo Japan. Born without arms and legs due to a genetic disorder called tetra-amelia syndrome Ototake is most notable for his...

30. Azusa Noa (Unknow)

Japanese Writer

Azusa Noah is a Japanese science fiction writer and esthetique Yaoi novelist.

31. Fujisawa Shu (1959)

Japanese Writer

ujisawa Shū is a Japanese writer active during the late Shōwa and early Heisei period periods of Japan.

32. Yusuke Kishi (1959)

Japanese Writer

Yusuke Kishi is a Japanese author.

33. Genichiro Takahashi (Unknow)

Japanese Writer

Genichiro Takahashi is a Japanese novelist.

34. Haruka Takachiho (1951)

Japanese Writer

Haruka Takachiho in Nagoya Japan) is a Japanese science fiction author and founder of Studio Nue. Takachiho is best known as the creator of Crusher Joe Dirty Pair and...

35. Amy Yamada (1959)

Japanese Writer

Amy Yamada born February 8 1959 is a popular but controversial contemporary Japanese writer who is most famous for her stories that address issues of sexuality racism and interracial marriage...

36. Kyoichi Katayama (1959)

Japanese Writer

Kyoichi Katayama is a Japanese author.

37. Machi Tawara (1962)

Japanese Writer

Machi Tawara is a contemporary Japanese writer translator and poet. Tawara is most famous as a contemporary poet.

38. Baku Yumemakura (Unknow)

Japanese Writer

Baku Yumemakura is a Japanese science fiction and adventure writer. His works have sold more than 20 million copies in Japan spread across more than 280 titles.

39. Ryū Murakami (1952)

Japanese Writer

Ryū Murakami is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker.

40. Norio Nakai (1952)

Japanese Writer

Norio Nakai is a Japanese science fiction writer. His debut as a writer was in 1985 in Hayakawa SF Magazine. In 1988 he won the Seiun Award with Mountaintop Symphony....

41. Yasumi Kobayashi (1962)

Japanese Writer

Yasumi Kobayashi is a Japanese author of horror science fiction and mystery. His short story The Man Who Watched the Sea won the Hayakawa Award for best short story...

42. Yoshiki Tanaka (1952)

Japanese Writer

Dr. Yoshiki Tanaka is a Japanese novelist.

43. Hiroo Yamagata (1964)

Japanese Writer

Hiroo Yamagata is a Japanese author critic economist and translator. He translated some important works in computer technology such as The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond Code...

44. Gengoroh Tagame (1964)

Japanese Writer

Gengoroh Tagame is a Japanese manga artist who specializes in gay BDSM erotic manga many of which depict graphic violence. The men he depicts are hypermasculine and tend to be...

45. Gania Nishimura (1952)

Japanese Writer

Gania Nishimura is a Japanese poet and an international civil servant.

46. Ramo Nakajima (1952)

Japanese Writer

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...

47. Hajime Kanzaka (1964)

Japanese Writer

Hajime Kanzaka is a Japanese novelist and manga story writer. Kanzaka is best known for writing the Slayers novels that were adapted into the hit anime series OAV and manga...

48. Yuka Murayama (1964)

Japanese Writer

Yuka Murayama is a modern Japanese female writer. She graduated from Rikkyo University and majored in Japanese literature.

49. Hiromi Itō (1955)

Japanese Writer

Hiromi Itō is one of the most prominent women writers of contemporary Japan with more than a dozen collections of poetry several works of prose numerous books of essays and...

50. Ritsuko Kawai (1964)

Japanese Writer

Ritsuko Kawai is the creator of the anime television show Hamtaro. Kawai originally created Hamtaro as storybooks for children first published in 1997 and then the anime came to Japan...