Jirō Akagawa
Jirō Akagawa, born February 29, 1948, in Fukuoka, Japan, is a Japanese novelist famous for funny mystery stories. He began publishing in 1976. His first short story, Ghost Train, won the All Yomimono New Mystery Writers' Prize from the publisher Bungeishunjū.
His other works, The Incident in the Bedroom Suburb and Voice from Heaven, were turned into anime, and Sailor Suit and Machine Gun became a popular live-action movie. His best-known books are the Mike-neko (Calico Cat) Holmes series. Akagawa is very prolific—by 2013 he had written more than 560 novels and sold over 300 million copies. One of his works, Majotachi no Nemuri, was adapted into a video game. He wrote the original novel for the Super Famicom game released in 1995; it was later re-released with extra content for computers as Majotachi no Nemuri -Kanzenban- in 1996 and for PlayStation as Majo-tachi no Nemuri -Fukkatsusai- in 1999, though he did not supervise the game script.
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