Shinjuku Shark is Arimasa Osawa's police novel centered on Samejima, a detective at Shinjuku Police Station. The darkness of the entertainment district, his isolation within the police organization, and a gun-smuggling case intertwine, establishing both the pace of urban crime fiction and the image of a solitary hero.

The first book in the series, following a lone detective as he cuts into the darkness of Shinjuku and the police organization.

The Night Cicada is a linked mystery collection in Kaoru Kitamura's Enshi and I series. A young woman narrator observes mysteries embedded in everyday life, and through the insight of rakugo performer Enshi, the stories quietly unravel the subtleties of human feeling.

Small disturbances in daily life become paths toward the narrator's growth and deeper understanding of others.

Hyakkai, Waga Harawata ni Iru: Takenaka Eitaro Sakuhinfu is Ro Takenaka's biographical study of artist Eitaro Takenaka and his body of work. It excavates the intersection of the grotesque, detective fiction, and illustration culture, tracing the shadows of modern popular culture.

A study that illuminates the visual culture of the grotesque and detective fiction through an artist's life and catalogue.

Yokohama Yamate no Dekigoto is an award-winning work of nonfiction and criticism by Takao Tokuoka. Using the memories of Yokohama's Yamate district as a starting point, it follows intercultural contact, incidents, and human relationships in modern Japan, turning urban history into narrative reading.

From incidents preserved on the hills of a port city, the work reads the crossing of cultures and people in modern Japan.