Japanese Crime Fiction

In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged 28 Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence fell most heavily on 10 of the accused. In December 1948, five of these defendants were hanged, while four received sentences of life in prison. The tenth was a brilliant philosopher-patriot named Okawa Shumei. His story proved strangest of all. Among all the political and military leaders on trial, Okawa was the lone civilian.

Japan faces Korea in the World Baseball Classic at Dodger Stadium, and curmudgeonly gardener Mas Arai finds himself embroiled in a murder. A Japanese tabloid writer drops dead on the field, and Mas gave the victim his last drink. It turns out there's more at stake than a baseball championship - international diplomacy depends upon uncovering secrets buried decades ago.

LA gardener Mas Arai returns to Hiroshima to bring his best friend’s ashes to a relative on the tiny offshore island of Ino, only to become embroiled in the mysterious death of a teenage boy who was about the same age Mas was when he survived the atomic bomb in 1945. The boy’s death affects the elderly, often-curmudgeonly, always-reluctant sleuth, who cannot return home to Los Angeles until he finds a way to see justice served.

Newly reinstated to the homicide division and transferred to a precinct in Tokyo, Inspector Iwata is facing superiors who don't want him there and is assigned a recalcitrant partner, Noriko Sakai, who'd rather work with anyone else. After the previous detective working the case killed himself, Iwata and Sakai are assigned to investigate the slaughter of an entire family, a brutal murder with no clear motive or killer.

After a brutal murder investigation ripped apart his life, Kosuke Iwata quit both his job as a detective with the Tokyo Police Department and his country, leaving Japan for the hopefully sunnier shores of Los Angeles, California. Iwata sets up shop as a private investigator. Approached by an old contact whose daughter has been murdered and the case laid to rest - unsolved - Iwata agrees to take on the case out of loyalty. But what seems initially like a cold-blooded murder takes a different turn when a homeless witness recalls the murderer’s parting words: “I’m sorry.”

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アン・ラーセンは、死亡した被告側弁護士が裁判で負けたすぐあと退職していたことを知る。

新たな情報を得たローランド・ベニートは、刑務官の自殺について改めて検討し直す。

バートラムは、盗んだジャケットに入っていたものについて、警察に行って話をする気にはなれなかった。

ローランドは、アン・ラーセンからウーヴェ・フィンチの写真を見せられる。

バートラムと友人三人は「ホーク団」という小さな窃盗団を組んでいた。

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バートラムと３人の仲間（ジャック、カスパー、フェリックス）は中学を卒業したあと、ホークスという安っぽいギャング団を結成している。

警察苦情処理独立団体のローランド・ベニートは、同僚と共に、緊急事態に対応した２人の警察官を取り調べることになる。

リヴ・ルケはパードラのスーパー「ネットー」で店員として働いていた。 彼女は、この街にも、自分自身にも、仕事にも、人生にもうんざりしていた。客が誰であるか見なくてもわかるようになっていた。 近所に住む客の殆どや彼らの買い物の習慣を把握していた。 しかしある日、客の一人が彼女の過去、そしてあの運命の日を思い出させるような品物を購入した。それは母親を殺したガス爆発から兄を救った日のことだ。 その客は、あの人......

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