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This is a list of Japanese speculative fiction writers. Writers are sorted alphabetically by surname.

A

• Kōbō Abe (安部公房, 1924–1993, real name Kimifusa Abe (安部公房)
• Hirotaka Adachi (安達寛高, real name of Otsuichi)
• Jirō Akagawa (赤川次郎, b. 1948)
• Mizuhito Akiyama (秋山瑞人, b. 1971)
• Motoko Arai (新井素子, b. 1960)
• Mizuhito Akiyama (秋山瑞人, b. 1971)
• Kunio Aramaki (荒巻邦夫, real name of Yoshio Aramaki)
• Yoshimasa Aramaki (荒巻義雅, real name of Yoshio Aramaki)
• Yoshio Aramaki (荒巻義雄, b. 1933)
• Hiroshi Aramata (荒俣宏, b. 1947)
• Alice Arisugawa or Arisu Arisugawa (有栖川有栖, b. 1959)
• Taku Ashibe (芦辺拓, b. 1958)
• Yukito Ayatsuji (綾辻行人, b. 1960)

B–D

• Chen Shunchen (陳舜臣, pseudonym of Chin Shunshin)
• Chen Soon Shin (陳舜臣, pseudonym of Chin Shunshin)
• Kimio Chiba (千葉喜美雄, real name of Ryu Mitsuse)
• Chihitsudō (遅筆堂, pseudonym of Hisashi Inoue)
• Chin Shunshin (陳舜臣, 1924–2015)
• Gakuto Coda, Gakuto Kōda (甲田学人, b. 1977)

E–G

• Toh EnJoe or Tō Enjō (円城塔, b. 1972)
• Taiyo Fujii or Taiyō Fujii (藤井太洋, b. 1971)
• Masako Fukae (深江雅子, real name of Masako Mori)
• Masami Fukushima (福島正実, 1929–1976)

H

• Ryō Hanmura or Ryō Hammura (半村良 1933–2002)
• Hideshi Hino (日野日出志 1946)
• Akira Hori (堀晃 b. 1944)
• Shinichi Hoshi or Shin'ichi Hoshi (星新一 1926-1997)

I–J

• Kimio Iizuka (飯塚喜美雄, real name of Ryu Mitsuse)
• Sumiyo Imaoka (今岡純代, real name of Kaoru Kurimoto)
• Hisashi Inoue (井上ひさし, 1934–2010)
• Fujio Ishihara (石原藤夫, b. 1933)
• Junji Ito or Junji Itō (伊藤潤二. b. 1963)
• Keikaku Itō (伊藤計劃, pseudonym of Project Itoh)
• Satoshi Itō (伊藤聡, real name of Project Itoh)
• Shimako Iwai (岩井志麻子, b. 1964)

K–L

• Shinji Kajio (梶尾真治. b. 1947)
• Chōhei Kambayashi or Chōhei Kanbayashi (神林長平, b. 1953)
• Musashi Kanbe (かんべむさし, b. 1948)
• Hajime Kanzaka (神坂一, b. 1964)
• Kyō Katō (加藤喬, pseudonym of Masami Fukushima)
• Masami Katō (加藤正実, pseudonym of Masami Fukushima)
• Chiaki Kawamata (川又千秋, b. 1948)
• Hideyuki Kikuchi (菊地秀行, b. 1949)
• Yusuke Kishi or Yūsuke Kishi (貴志祐介, b. 1959)
• Morio Kita (北杜夫, 1927–2011)
• Heitarō Kiyono (清野平太郎, real name of Ryō Hanmura)
• Yasumi Kobayashi (小林泰三, b. 1962)
• Gakuto Koda or Gakuto Kōda (甲田学人)
• Izuki Kogyoku or Izuki Kōgyoku (紅玉いづき, b. 1984)
• Minoru Komatsu (小松実, real name of Sakyo Komatsu)
• Sakyo Komatsu or Sakyō Komatsu (小松左京, 1931–2011)
• Chiaki J. Konaka or Chiaki Konaka (小中千昭, b. 1961)
• Yoji Kondo or Yōji Kondō (近藤陽次, 1933–2017)
• Eric Kotani, pseudonym of Yoji Kondo)
• Rei Kozumi (小隅黎, pseudonym of Takumi Shibano)
• Kaoru Kurimoto (栗本薫, 1953–2009)
• Ken Kuronuma (黒沼健, 1902–1985)

M

• Gorō Masaki (柾悟郎, b. 1957)
• Jun Masaki (真木じゅん, pseudonym of Jun'ya Yokota)
• Taku Mayumura (眉村卓, b. 1934)
• Gakuto Mikumo (三雲岳斗, b. 1970)
• Hiroko Minagawa (皆川博子, b. 1930)
• Ryu Mitsuse or Ryū Mitsuse (光瀬龍, 1928–1999)
• Miyuki Miyabe (宮部みゆき, b. 1960)
• Masako Mori (森真沙子, b. 1944)
• Hiroyuki Morioka (森岡浩之, b. 1962)
• Daijiro Morohoshi (諸星大二郎, b. 1949) manga artist
• Haruki Murakami (村上春樹, b. 1949)

N

• Norio Nakai (中井紀夫, b. 1952)
• Azusa Nakajima (中島梓, pseudonym of Kaoru Kurimoto)
• Azusa Noa (野阿梓, b. 1954)
• Hōsuke Nojiri (野尻抱介, b. 1961)
• Asa Nonami (乃南アサ, b. 1960)
• Mahokaru Numata (沼田まほかる, b. 1948)

O–R

• Kenzaburō Ōe (大江健三郎, b. 1935)
• Issui Ogawa (小川一水, b. 1975)
• Noriko Ogiwara (荻原規子, b. 1959)
• Mariko Ōhara (大原まり子, b. 1959)
• Fuyumi Ono (小野不由美, b. 1960)
• Masaari Oshikawa (押川方存, real name of Shunrō Oshikawa)
• Shunrō Oshikawa (押川春浪, 1876–1914)
• Otsuichi (乙一, b. 1978)
• Project Itoh or Keikaku Itō (伊藤計劃, 1974–2009)
• Ryukishi07 (竜騎士07, b. 1973)

S

• Hiroshi Sakurazaka (桜坂洋, b. 1970)
• Shōichi Sano (佐野昌一, real name of Unno Juza)
• Yūichi Sasamoto (笹本祐一, b. 1963)
• Daisuke Satō (佐藤大輔, 1964–2017)
• Sōkichi Saitō (斎藤宗吉, real name of Morio Kita)
• Hideaki Sena (瀬名秀明, b. 1968)
• Takumi Shibano (柴野拓美, 1926–2010)
• Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (澁澤龍彦, 1928–1987)
• Tatsuo Shibusawa (澁澤龍雄, real name of Tatsuhiko Shibusawa)
• Yoshinori Shimizu (清水義範, b. 1947)
• Kazuma Shinjō (新城カズマ)
• Setsuko Shinoda (篠田節子, b. 1955)
• Hiroe Suga (菅浩江, b. 1963)
• Taidō Sugiyama (杉山泰道, real name (Buddhist name) Yumeno Kyūsaku)
• Koji Suzuki, Kōji Suzuki (鈴木光司, b. 1957)

T

• Kiyoshi Takayanagi (高柳清, real name of Chōhei Kambayashi)
• Haruka Takachiho (高千穂遙, b. 1951)
• Akimitsu Takagi (高木彬光, 1920–1995)
• Seiichi Takagi (高木誠一, real name of Akimitsu Takagi)
• Katsuhiko Takahashi (高橋克彦, b. 1947)
• Haneko Takayama (高山羽根子, b. 1975)
• Kimiyoshi Takekawa (竹川公訓, real name of Haruka Takachiho)
• Kōshū Tani (谷甲州, b. 1951)
• Nagaru Tanigawa (谷川流, b. 1970)
• Hirotaka Tobi (飛浩隆, b. 1960)
• Eiji Tsuburaya (円谷英二, 1901–1970)
• Eiichi Tsumuraya (圓谷英一, real name of Eiji Tsuburaya)
• Yasutaka Tsutsui (筒井康隆, b. 1934)

U–V

• Tow Ubukata or Tō Ubukata (冲方丁, b. 1977)
• Naoyuki Uchida (内田直行, real name of Yukito Ayatsuji)
• Hisashi Uchiyama (内山廈, pseudonym of Hisashi Inoue)
• Sayuri Ueda (上田早夕里, b. 1964)
• Masahide Uehara (上原正英, real name of Alice Arisugawa)
• Nahoko Uehashi (上橋菜穂子, b. 1962)
• Kazuo Umezu (楳図かずお, b. 1936) manga artist
• Unno Juza, Unno Jūza, or Unno Jūzō (海野十三, 1897–1949)
• Gen Urobuchi (虚淵玄, b. 1972)

W–Z

• Soichiro Watase or Sōichirō Watase (渡瀬草一郎, b. 1978)
• Masaki Yamada (山田正紀, b. 1950)
• Bochō Yamamura (山村暮鳥, 1884–1924)
• Tetsu Yano (矢野徹, 1923–2004)
• Jun'ya Yokota (横田順彌 or 横田順弥, 1945–2019)
• Baku Yumemakura (夢枕獏, b. 1951)
• Yumeno Kyūsaku (夢野久作, 1889–1936)