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)
- BJ by Shōichi Maruyama & Yûsaku Matsuda (Yokohama)
- 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.
