Hanzai Japan · Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime From and About Japan

A murderer doing time in hell. A girl who just wants to win her high school band contest…no matter what it takes. Sumo wrestlers with a supernatural secret. A future Tokyo where vampires are menial laborers nursing long-held grudges against humanity. And even a very conscientious, if unstable, Universal Transverse Mercator projection. These crime and mystery stories from and about Japan explore myth, technology, the sharpness of a sleuth’s mind, and the darkness in the hearts of criminals. Read these stories and learn that *hanzai* means crime!

Ray Banks

Libby Cudmore

Brian Evenson

Kaori Fujino

Jyouji Hayashi

Naomi Hirahara

Yumeaki Hirayama

Violet LeVoit

Yusuke Miyauchi

S.J. Rozan

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Setsuko Shinoda

Jeff Somers

Genevieve Valentine

Carrie Vaughn

Chet Williamson