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Fumichika Hasebe

はせべ ふみちか

Hasebe Fumichika

Pen Names:

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1954-04-19 （Tokyo）
Died
2022-04-06 age 67
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
critic, used bookstore owner
Active Years
1980-2022

Education

Waseda University
Faculty of Law
Country: Japan

Awards

Mystery Writers of Japan Award
1992
Work: History of Western Detective Fiction Translations
Organization: Mystery Writers of Japan
Result: winner
Popular Literature Research Award
1994
Work: Evolution of Japanese Mystery
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Detective Story Talk

1988 criticism

Complete Index of British Detective Magazines

1991 research

History of Western Detective Fiction Translations

1992 criticism

Antiquarian Book Taste in Detective Fiction

1993 criticism

Evolution of Japanese Mystery: Don't Miss These Masterpieces

1993 criticism

Foreign Mystery Almanac

1994 criticism

My Experience with Edogawa Rampo

1995 criticism

Walking Paths in Foreign Mysteries

1996 criticism

Walking the Frontier of Mystery

2002 criticism

Bibliography

  • Detective Story Talk
  • Complete Index of British Detective Magazines
  • History of Western Detective Fiction Translations
  • Antiquarian Book Taste in Detective Fiction
  • Evolution of Japanese Mystery: Don't Miss These Masterpieces
  • Foreign Mystery Almanac
  • My Experience with Edogawa Rampo
  • Walking Paths in Foreign Mysteries
  • Walking the Frontier of Mystery
  • Masterpieces of Chushingura (Editor)
  • A Century of Japanese Mystery (Co-editor)
  • Selected Masterpieces of Historical Novels (Editor)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
criticalspecialized commentary on mystery novels

Legacy

Fumichika Hasebe was an important figure in the Japanese mystery novel criticism scene, contributing original critiques and advancing mystery novel studies.