Author: 赤川 次郎
Alternate names: Jirō Akagawa; Jiro Akagawa; Akagawa/Jiro; Jiroh Akagawa; jiro Akagawa; Jirog Akagawa; Akagawa Jirō
Born: 29 February 1948
Bio: Jirō Akagawa (赤川次郎 Akagawa Jirō?), is a novelist born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. He is known best for his humorous mysteries. His first novel, Ghost Train, was published in 1976 and went on to win the annually granted All Yomimono New Mystery Writers' Prize by Bungeishunju, a Japanese literary publishing company. Other works of his, Incident in the Bedroom Suburb and Voice from Heaven, were later made into anime, while Sailor Fuku to Kikanju was made into a popular live action movie. His most recognized works to date pertain to his Mike-neko (or Tortoiseshell Cat) Holmes series. He is extremely prolific; as of August, 2006, he had written more than 480 novels in the course of his thirty year career, over 300 million individual published volumes.<sup>[1][1]</sup>


  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jirō_Akagawa