[1] After World War II the genre was renamed deductive reasoning fiction (suiri shōsetsu (推理小説)).
Edogawa Rampo is the first Japanese modern mystery writer and the founder of the Detective Story Club in Japan.
He gained his fame in early 1920s, when he began to bring to the genre many bizarre, erotic and even fantastic elements.
[3] Rampo's mystery novels generally followed conventional formulas, and have been classed as part of the honkaku ha (本格派), translated as "classical whodunit",[4][5] or "orthodox school",[6][7] or "standard" detective fiction,[8] or "authentic" detective fiction.
[9][10] In 1957, Seicho Matsumoto received the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for his short story The Face (顔, kao).
It demands restoration of the classic rules of detective fiction and the use of more self-reflective elements, largely inspired by the works of Ellery Queen and John Dickson Carr.
Famous authors of this movement include Soji Shimada, Yukito Ayatsuji, Rintaro Norizuki, Alice Arisugawa, Kaoru Kitamura and Taku Ashibe.