List of Japanese speculative fiction writers

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)