Mystery Writers of Japan Award
The Mystery Writers of Japan Awards are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of Japan. They honor the best in crime fiction and critical/biographical work published in the previous year.
MWJ Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work winners (1976–present)
- [|MWJ Award for Best Work] winners for their Critical Work
- * 05 - EDOGAWA Rampo, Gen'ei-jo
- * 19 - Kawataro Nakajima, Suiri Shosetsu Tembo
| Year | Winner | Winning entry | Available in English Translation | |
| 29 | 1976 | Manji Gonda | ||
| 30 | 1977 | Masao Yamamura | ||
| 31 | 1978 | Amehiko Aoki | ||
| 31 | 1978 | Takashi Ishikawa | ||
| 32 | 1979 | Jinichi Uekusa | ||
| 33 | 1980 | No Award Presented | ||
| 34 | 1981 | Eisuke Nakazono | ||
| 35 | 1982 | No Award Presented | ||
| 36 | 1983 | No Award Presented | ||
| 37 | 1984 | No Award Presented | ||
| 38 | 1985 | Iwao Matsuyama | ||
| 38 | 1985 | Minoru Sase | ||
| 39 | 1986 | Yoshio Matsumura | ||
| 40 | 1987 | Hideo Ito | ||
| 41 | 1988 | No Award Presented | ||
| 42 | 1989 | Akira Naoi | ||
| 43 | 1990 | Shunsuke Tsurumi | ||
| 44 | 1991 | Ro Takenaka | ||
| 44 | 1991 | Takao Tokuoka | ||
| 45 | 1992 | Rokusuke Nozaki | ||
| 46 | 1993 | Fumichika Hasebe | ||
| 46 | 1993 | Shinji Hata | ||
| 47 | 1994 | Jiro Kitagami | ||
| 48 | 1995 | Saburo Kagami | ||
| 49 | 1996 | No Award Presented | ||
| 50 | 1997 | Kyodo News Shakaibu | ||
| 51 | 1998 | Kiyoshi Kasai | ||
| 51 | 1998 | Kenji Kazama | ||
| 52 | 1999 | Hidetoshi Mori | ||
| 53 | 2000 | Hideki Kobayashi | ||
| 54 | 2001 | Takayuki Ikegami | ||
| 54 | 2001 | Michio Tsuzuki | ||
| 55 | 2002 | No Award Presented | ||
| 56 | 2003 | Hirohisa Shimpo Yuzuru Yamamae | ||
| 57 | 2004 | Akiyuki Sengai | ||
| 57 | 2004 | Shigeharu Tada | ||
| 58 | 2005 | Kotaro Hidaka | ||
| 59 | 2006 | Hiroshi Gohara | ||
| 59 | 2006 | Tetsutaka Shibata | ||
| 60 | 2007 | Nobumitsu Kodaka | ||
| 60 | 2007 | Masaaki Tatsumi | ||
| 61 | 2008 | Junichiro Kida | ||
| 61 | 2008 | Hazuki Saisho | ||
| 62 | 2009 | Toshiaki Endo | ||
| 62 | 2009 | Yuichiro Kurihara | ||
| 63 | 2010 | Kentaro Komori | Eibungaku no Chika Suimyaku: Koten Misuteri Kenkyu Ruiko Kuroiwa Hon'an Genten kara Queen made | |
| 64 | 2011 | Masao Higashi | ||
| 65 | 2012 | Jun'ya Yokota | ||
| 66 | 2013 | Koichi Suwabe | ||
| 67 | 2014 | Kiyoshi Shimizu | ||
| 67 | 2014 | Motoi Taniguchi | ||
| 68 | 2015 | Masahiko Kikuni | ||
| 68 | 2015 | Aoi Shimotsuki | ||
| 69 | 2016 | Yoshinobu Kadoi | ||
| 70 | 2017 | No Award Presented | ||
| 71 | 2018 | Noboru Miyata | ||
| 72 | 2019 | Yasuo Nagayama | ||
| 73 | 2020 | Seung Chul Kim | ||
| 74 | 2021 | Keisuke Mada | ||
| 75 | 2022 | Osamu Komori | ||
| 76 | 2023 | Masamichi Higurashi | ||
| 77 | 2024 | Masaki Kawade | Mystery Library Investigation Sengo Honyaku Mystey Sousho Tanbou（ミステリ・ライブラリ・インヴェスティゲーション 戦後翻訳ミステリ叢書探訪） | |
| 77 | 2024 | Shosaku Naka | Edogawa Rampo Nenpu Shusei（江戸川乱歩年譜集成） | |
| 78 | 2025 | Matsukoi Sugie | Nihon no Hanzai Shosetsu（日本の犯罪小説） |
Nominees available in English translation
- Nominees for Best Novel
- * 02 - Akimitsu Takagi, The Tattoo Murder Case a.k.a. The Tattoo Murder
- * 02 - Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island
- * 37 - Kenzo Kitakata, The Cage
- * 42 - Joh Sasaki, Zero Over Berlin
- * 65 - Mahokaru Numata, Nan-Core
- * 71 - Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror
- Nominees for Short Story
- * 08 - Tetsuya Ayukawa, "The Red Locked Room"
- * 11 - Tetsuya Ayukawa, "The Five Clocks"
- * 12 - Tetsuya Ayukawa, "The White Locked Room"
- * 56 - Otsuichi, "Dog"
- * 60 - Gaku Yakumaru, "Rice Omelet"
- * 63 - Shunsuke Nagase, "Chief", Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 2013
MWJ Award for Mystery Fiction in Translation（Double Copper Award）2023–present
This award is for the best translated mystery novel or short story collection published in Japan in the previous year.2023
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| Niklas Natt och Dag | 1794 / 1795 | Miho Hellén-Halme | 2019 / 2021 | ''' Sweden2024Winners and nominees.
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