Editing Detective fiction (section)

=== Japan ===
[[Edogawa Rampo]] is the first major Japanese modern mystery writer and the founder of the [[Mystery Writers of Japan|Detective Story Club in Japan]].<ref>{{cite web|date=15 April 2021|title=Japan's first detective story was published in 1889|url=https://www.redcircleauthors.com/factbook/japans-first-detective-story-was-published-in-1889/|url-status=live|website=Red Circle Authors|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811105520/https://www.redcircleauthors.com/factbook/japans-first-detective-story-was-published-in-1889/ |archive-date=2020-08-11 }}</ref> Rampo was an admirer of western mystery writers. He gained his fame in the early 1920s, when he began to bring to the genre many bizarre, erotic and even fantastic elements. This is partly because of the social tension before [[World War II]].<ref name=":5">{{cite journal |id={{ProQuest|1304283380}} |last1=Manji |first1=Gonda |date=1 April 1993 |title=Crime Fiction with a Social Consciousness |journal=Japan Quarterly |volume=40 |issue=2 |page=157 }}</ref> In 1957, [[Seichō Matsumoto|Seicho Matsumoto]] received the [[Mystery Writers of Japan Award]] for his short story ''The Face'' (''顔'' ''kao''). ''The Face'' and Matsumoto's subsequent works began the "social school" (社会派 ''shakai ha'') within the genre, which emphasized [[social realism]], described crimes in an ordinary setting and sets motives within a wider context of social injustice and political corruption.<ref name=":5" /> Since the 1980s, a "[[Golden Age of Detective Fiction#The "new traditionalist" movement in Japanese mystery writing|new orthodox school]]" (新本格派 ''shin honkaku ha'') has surfaced. It demands restoration of the classic rules of detective fiction and the use of more self-reflective elements. Famous authors of this movement include [[Soji Shimada]], [[Yukito Ayatsuji]], [[Rintaro Norizuki]], [[Alice Arisugawa]], [[Kaoru Kitamura]] and [[Taku Ashibe]].