is a Japanese

Japanese people

The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 novelist from Fukui Prefecture

Fukui Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Fukui.- Prehistory :The Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry, on the Sugiyama River within the city limits of Katsuyama, has yielded the Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis and Fukuisaurus tetoriensis as well as an unnamed...

. Winner of the 19th Mephisto Award for Smoke, Soil, and Sacrifices, and the 16th Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima

was the pen name of , a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor and film director, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d'état...

 award for Ashura Girl. His short story, Drill Hole in the Brain was translated into English as part of Del Rey's Faust anthology, and described by the Anime News Network as the "crowning glory" of the anthology.

Style

Many of Maijō's novels are set in Fukui

Fukui Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Fukui.- Prehistory :The Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry, on the Sugiyama River within the city limits of Katsuyama, has yielded the Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis and Fukuisaurus tetoriensis as well as an unnamed...

 and make extensive use of that dialect. He is known for an aggressive, colloquial writing style. His early works were mystery novels, but he has branched out into literary magazines. He illustrates much of his own work, and has contributed several brief manga to Faust.

Works

• Smoke, Soil or Sacrifices (Kemuri ka Tsuchi ka Kuimono) 2001 (Kodansha novels), 2004 (bunko)
• The Childish Darkness (Kurayami no Naka de Kodomo) 2001 (Kodansha novels)
• The World is Made Out of Closed Rooms (Sekai wa Misshitsu de Dekiteiru) 2001 (Kodansha novels), 2005 (bunko)
• Kuma no Basho (short story collection; 2004 (Kodansha novels), 2006 (bunko)
  • Kuma no Basho (appeared in Gunzou magazine, September 2001)
  • Bat Otoko (Gunzou, February 2002)
  • Beacon! (later adapted into a manga by Kei Aoyama
    Kei Aoyama
    was a Japanese manga artist who committed suicide in October 2011 . He is known for works involving teenaged boys and girls. The last comic he was working on before his suicide, Yoiko no Mokushiroku, was about religion and cult.-Serialization:* Swweeet * Strobe light was a Japanese manga artist...
    
    )
• Ashura Girl, 2003 (Shinchosha), 2005 (bunko)
  • Kawa wo Oyoide Wataru Hebi (short story, appeared in Shincho Magazine 2003, appeared only in the bunko edition of Ashura Girl)
• Tsukumo Juku, 2005 (Kodansha novels), 2007 (bunko)
  • Set in the world of Ryusui Seiryoin
    Ryusui Seiryoin
    is a Japanese novelist, active in mystery and various other fields. He was born in 1974, in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. He won the 2nd Mephisto prize in 1996 while in Kyoto University, and started to work as a novelist. After that, Ryusui published over 60 novels. His works are always controversial...
    
    's JDC novels
• Yama n Naka no Shimitomo Naruo, 2003 (Kodansha), 2005 (Kodansha novels), 2007 (bunko)
  • Originally appeared in Gunzou, July 2003
• Suki Suki Daisuki Cho Ai shiteru, 2004 (Kodansha), 2006 (Kodansha novels)
  • Suki Suki Daisuki Cho Ai Shiteru (Gunzou, January 2004)
  • Drill Hole in My Brain (Faust), 2003 vol. 1
• Minna Genki, 2004 (Shinchosha), 2007 (bunko - in two volumes, Minna Genki and School Attack Syndrome)
  • Minna Genki, (Shincho, September 2004)
  • Dead for Good
  • Wagaya no Totoro (Shincho, June 2003)
  • Ya wo Tomeru Gowa no Kuchinashidori (Shincho, June 2004)
  • School Attack Syndrome (Shincho, January 2004)
• Speedboy, (Kodansha Box
  Kodansha Box
  Kodansha Box is a publishing line from the major Japanese publishing house, Kodansha. Each book is packaged in a silver cardboard slip cover. Single-handedly edited by Katsushi Ōta who describes the lines as: "A collection of works on the theme of the adolescent mind...
  
  , 2006)

Real Coffee

Currently, Otaro Maijo is part of the Real Coffee Project, which, according to their website, is attempting to inspire new and better Japanese movies. Maijo has written and illustrated a number of flash movies, which are hosted on the website.