Oguri Mushitaro

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Oguri Mushitaro (小栗 虫太郎 Oguri Mushitarō, March 14, 1901 - February 10, 1946) was a Japanese author, an important mystery novelist in pre-war Japan (see [1]). Accorfding to researcher Sari Kawana, he was one of the writers involved in writing "mad scientist murders," a subgenre within the larger stream of Japanese detective fiction during the 1920s and 1930s. He used the motif of the "mad scientist" and his uncompromising attitude toward his work to criticize the widespread overconfidence in the possibilities of science and to highlight the potential incompatibility between science and ethics. Other writers involved in that genre Kozakai Fuboku, Yumeno Kyusaku and Unno Juza.(Society for Japanese Studies, Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2005 - See [2] )

He was born in Kanda, Tokyo.

He was 45 when he died.

His works include:

• 黒死館殺人事件
• 完全犯罪

See also: Japanese literature, List of Japanese authors