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Japanese Eyes

• Kōsuke Kindaichi by Seishi Yokomizo
• Haida by Jūrō Kara (Umihoozuki)
• Maiku Hama by Kaizo Hayashi and Daisuke Tengan (Yokohama)
• Takayasu Higashino by Takushi Fukada & Hiroshi Ishii (Bondage House)
• Mosaku Anchu by Matsunaga Anshindo
• Kazuo Mori by Peter Tasker (Tokyo)
• Milo Murano by Natsuo Kirino
• Kimitsuka Kimihiko & Siesta by Nigojū & Umibōzu (The Detective is Already Dead)
• Shido, The Midnight Detective
• Sachinosuke Terada by Jiro Kimura (Kanazawa, Ishikawa)
• Ryo Saeba (City Hunter) by Tsukasa Hojo
• Masakazu Sakonju by Michael Wiecek (Tokyo)
• Mitsuko Hoshino by Natsumi Ito (Tokyo) (My Dear Detective)
• Sawazaki by Ryou Hara
• Curt Stone by Jack Seward
• Shinoda Ryota by Hirokazu Kore-eda (Umi yori mo mada fukaku)
• The Detective (un-named) by Koko Abe (The Ruined Map)
• Keiichiro Nagumo by Masakuni Igarashi (Detectives These Days are Crazy!)

THE AMERICAN PLAN

• Jim Brodie by Barry Lancet (San Francisco-based, but ventures to Japan in at least one case)
• Harry Kilmer by Paul & Leonard Schrader and Robert Towne (American PI returns to Kyoto to settle an old debt)
• Burns Bannion by Earl Norman (American served in WWII; decides to stay to study Karate)
• August Riordan by Mark Coggins ( San Francisco-based PI heads to Japan in Geisha Confidential).

ALSO OF POSSIBLE INTEREST
(Pending Further Investigation)

• “Kouri No Mori” (The Ice Forest”) by Arimasa Osawa
• “Koutetsu No Kishi“(“The Knight of Steel”) by Yoshinaga Fujita

Preliminary list compiled by Kevin Burton Smith. Additions and comments welcome. Thanks, Randall.