MWJ Award for Best Novel winners (1948 - 1951, 1976 - present)

MWJ Award for Best Short Story winners (1948 - 1951, 1976 - present)

MWJ Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work winners (1976 - present)

• MWJ Award for Best Work (1952–1975) winners for their Critical Work
  • 05 (1952) - EDOGAWA Rampo
    Edogawa Rampo
    , better known by the pseudonym , 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 Kogorō Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the .Rampo was an admirer...
    
    , Gen'ei-jo (Studies on detective fiction)
  • 19 (1966) - Kawataro Nakajima, Suiri Shosetsu Tembo (Studies on detective fiction)

    	Year	Winner	Winning entry	Available in English Language Translation
    29	1976	Manji Gonda (ja)	(Studies on Japanese detective fiction Japanese detective fiction , is a popular genre of Japanese literature. It's generally called in Japan.- Name :When the Western detective fictions spread into Japan, it created a new genre called detective fiction in Japanese literature....  writers)
    30	1977	Masao Yamamura (ja)	(Studies on Japanese detective fiction writers)
    31	1978	Amehiko Aoki (ja)	(Essay)
    		Takashi Ishikawa (ja)	(Studies on Japanese science fiction)
    32	1979	Jinichi Uekusa (ja)	(Essay)
    33	1980		No Award Presented
    34	1981	Eisuke Nakazono Eisuke Nakazono , pen-name for Hideki Nakazono, was one of Japan's pioneer writers of spy fiction.Nakazono was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, spent from 1938-1946 in China, and died of pneumonia at a hospital in Kawasaki, Kanagawa...	(Studies on Spy fiction Spy fiction Spy fiction, literature concerning the forms of espionage, was a sub-genre derived from the novel during the nineteenth century, which then evolved into a discrete genre before the First World War , when governments established modern intelligence agencies in the early twentieth century... )
    35	1982		No Award Presented
    36	1983		No Award Presented
    37	1984		No Award Presented
    38	1985	Iwao Matsuyama (ja)	(Studies on Edogawa Rampo Edogawa Rampo , better known by the pseudonym , 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 Kogorō Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the .Rampo was an admirer... )
    		Minoru Sase (ja)	(Crime report)
    39	1986	Yoshio Matsumura (ja)	(Studies on French Crime fiction)
    40	1987	Hideo Ito	(Studies on Japanese detective fiction of the Meiji period Meiji period The , also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from September 1868 through July 1912. This period represents the first half of the Empire of Japan.- Meiji Restoration and the emperor :... )
    41	1988		No Award Presented
    42	1989	Akira Naoi (ja)	(Studies on 87th Precinct 87th Precinct The 87th Precinct is a series of police procedural novels and stories written by Ed McBain. McBain's 87th Precinct works have been adapted, sometimes loosely, into movies and television on several occasions.-Setting:... )
    43	1990	Shunsuke Tsurumi Shunsuke Tsurumi is a Japanese historian and philosopher. Graduating from Harvard University in 1942, he taught at Kyoto University. In 1946, he started the magazine "Shiso-no Kagaku" . He was a member of the anti-Vietnam War group Beheiren....	(Studies on Yumeno Kyūsaku Yumeno Kyusaku was the pen name of the early Shōwa period Japanese author Sugiyama Taidō. The pen name literally means "a person who always dreams." He wrote detective novels and is known for his avant-gardism and his surrealistic, wildly imaginative and fantastic, even bizarre narratives... )
    44	1991	Ro Takenaka (ja)	(Studies on Eitaro Takenaka (ja))
    		Takao Tokuoka (ja)	(Crime report)
    45	1992	Rokusuke Nozaki	(Studies on North American detective fiction)
    46	1993	Fumichika Hasebe	(Studies on the history of translations of European and American crime fiction into Japanese)
    		Shinji Hata (ja)	(Studies on Siebold Incident)
    47	1994	Jiro Kitagami (ja)	(Studied on Adventure novel Adventure novel The adventure novel is a genre of novels that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme.-History:... )
    48	1995	Saburo Kagami (ja)	(Dictionary of characters of Raymond Chandler Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter.In 1932, at age forty-five, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in... )
    49	1996		No Award Presented
    50	1997	Kyodo News Kyodo News is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo. It was established in November 1945 and it distributes news to almost all newspapers, and radio and television networks in Japan. The newspapers using its news have about 50 million subscribers. K. K. Kyodo News is Kyodo News' business...  Shakaibu	(Studies on Ryūzō Sejima)
    51	1998	Kiyoshi Kasai (ja)	(Studies on Honkaku Mystery)
    		Kenji Kazama (ja)	(Studies on Horror fiction Horror fiction Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural... )
    52	1999	Hidetoshi Mori	(Dictionary of mystery writers)
    53	2000	Hideki Kobayashi	(Studies on Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is... )
    54	2001	Takayuki Ikegami	(Studied on Adventure novel Adventure novel The adventure novel is a genre of novels that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme.-History:... )
    		Michio Tsuzuki (ja)	(Essay)
    55	2002		No Award Presented
    56	2003	Hirohisa Shimpo (ja) Yuzuru Yamamae (ja)	(Studies on Edogawa Rampo Edogawa Rampo , better known by the pseudonym , 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 Kogorō Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the .Rampo was an admirer... )
    57	2004	Akiyuki Sengai (ja)	(Studies on Honkaku Mystery)
    		Shigeharu Tada	(Studies on Yumeno Kyūsaku Yumeno Kyusaku was the pen name of the early Shōwa period Japanese author Sugiyama Taidō. The pen name literally means "a person who always dreams." He wrote detective novels and is known for his avant-gardism and his surrealistic, wildly imaginative and fantastic, even bizarre narratives... )
    58	2005	Kotaro Hidaka	(Studies on Kamikaze Kamikaze The were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy as many warships as possible.... )
    59	2006	Hiroshi Gohara (ja)	(Studies on Seicho Matsumoto Seicho Matsumoto was a Japanese writer.Seichō's works created new tradition　of Japanese mystery / detective fiction. Dispensing with formulaic plot devices such as puzzles, Seichō incorporated elements of human psychology and ordinary life. In particular, his works often reflect a wider social context and postwar... )
    		Tetsutaka Shibata (ja)	(Studies on Shimoyama incident Shimoyama incident The was the disappearance and death of , the first president of Japanese National Railways. He disappeared on his way to work, July 5, 1949, and his body was found the next day.... )
    60	2007	Nobumitsu Kodaka (ja)	(Studies on Hardboiled Hardboiled Hardboiled crime fiction is a literary style, most commonly associated with detective stories, distinguished by the unsentimental portrayal of violence and sex. The style was pioneered by Carroll John Daly in the mid-1920s, popularized by Dashiell Hammett over the course of the decade, and refined... )
    		Masaaki Tatsumi (ja)	(Studies on Honkaku Mystery)
    61	2008	Junichiro Kida (ja)	(Studies on Horror fiction Horror fiction Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural... )
    		Hazuki Saisho (ja)	(Studies on Shinichi Hoshi Shinichi Hoshi Shinichi Hoshi was a Japanese novelist and science fiction writer. He is 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... )
    62	2009	Toshiaki Endo	(Studies on Honkaku Mystery)
    		Yuichiro Kurihara (ja)	(Studies on the history of Plagiarism Plagiarism Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as the "wrongful appropriation," "close imitation," or "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work, but the notion remains problematic with nebulous... )
    63	2010	Kentaro Komori (ja)	Eibungaku-no Chika-suimyaku Koten Misuteri Kenkyu Ruiko Kuroiwa (ja) Hon'an Genten-kara Queen Ellery Queen Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay and Manford Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee , to write, edit, and anthologize detective fiction.The fictional Ellery Queen created by... -made (Studies on classical detective fiction)

MWJ Award for Best Work winners (1952 - 1975)

Nominees available in English language translation

• 02 (1949) - Akimitsu Takagi
  Akimitsu Takagi
  , was the pen-name of a popular Japanese crime fiction writer active during the Showa period of Japan. His real name was Takagi Seiichi.-Biography:...
  
  , (Novel)
• 37 (1984) - Kenzo Kitakata
  Kenzo Kitakata
  is an emminent Japanese novelist, especially known for his hard boiled style. He graduated with a degree in Law from Chuo University in 1973.- Bibliography :[Following is the list of translated to English texts, Kitakata is a prolific writer.]*The Cage...
  
  , (Novel)

Other awards

• MWJ Award for new face
  • 01 (1948) - Shigeru Kayama (ja), (Short story)
• MWJ Award for encouragement
  • 07 (1954) - Jojiro Okami (ja), (Novel)
  • 07 (1954) - Ro Hikawa, (Short story)
  • 07 (1954) - Saburo Washio, (Short story)

See also

• Edogawa Rampo Award
  Edogawa Rampo Award
  The , named after Edogawa Rampo, is a Japanese literary award which has been presented every year by the Mystery Writers of Japan since 1955.Though its name is similar to the Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which has been presented by Mystery Writers of America, the Edogawa Rampo award is not a counterpart...
  
  
• Japanese detective fiction
  Japanese detective fiction
  , is a popular genre of Japanese literature. It's generally called in Japan.- Name :When the Western detective fictions spread into Japan, it created a new genre called detective fiction in Japanese literature....
  
  
• Edgar Award
  Edgar Award
  The Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America...
  
  
• Daggers
• Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize
  Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize
  The are presented every year by the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. They honor the best in honkaku mystery fiction and critical work published in the previous year.- Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize for Best Novel winners :...
  
  

External links

• Mystery Writers of Japan
• List of Mystery Writers of Japan Award winners