Japanese crime stories are often large in scope. They focus on the characters more or less but the writers like to take a broader look at Japanese society. At least, that’s been my experience with the crime fiction that’s been translated state side. Hideo Yokoyama and Natsuo Kirino immediately come to mind. Kaoru Takamura writes in a similar vein. This work was compared to both James Ellroy and Don DeLillo. I didn’t see either, frankly. Although Kaoru Takamura does do the cultural critiquing in the […]