Yasutaka Tsutsui (筒井 康隆) is a Japanese novelist, science fiction author, and actor. Along with Shinichi Hoshi and Sakyo Komatsu, he is one of the most famous science fiction writers in Japan. His Yumenokizaka bunkiten won the Tanizaki Prize in 1987. He has also won the 1981 Izumi Kyoka award, the 1989 Kawabata Yasunari award, and the 1992 Nihon SF Taisho Award. In 1997, he was decorated as a Chevalier Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. His work is known for its dark humour and satirical content. He has often satirized Japanese taboos such as disabilities and the Tenno system, and has been victim to much criticism as a result. From 1993 to 1996, he went on a writing-strike to protest the excessive, self-imposed restraint of Japanese publishers. One of his first novels, Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (1967), has been adapted into numerous media including film, television and manga. Another novel, Paprika (1993), was adapted into an animated film by the director Satoshi Kon in 2006. Yasutaka Tsutsui es novelista, autor teatral, crítico literario, actor y músico. Después de graduarse en la Universidad de Doshisha en arte y estética, fundó la revista de ciencia ficción NULL. Durante los años setenta comenzó a experimentar con diferentes formas literarias aunque logró un gran reconocimiento como autor de ciencia ficción. En el verano de 1993, Tsutsui anunció que dejaba de escribir como reacción al linchamiento que había sufrido en la prensa por una protesta hecha por la Asociación de Epilépticos de Japón debido a ciertas expresiones sobre la epilepsia que aparecían en uno de sus cuentos. En protesta por la falta de libertad de expresión se negó a publicar en su país, convirtiéndose en el primer ciberescritor de Japón al haber sido internet durante una larga temporada el único medio de poder leer sus historias. Su prolífica obra ha obtenido numerosos e importantes galardones: en 1981, el premio Izumi Kyoka por «Kyojin-Tachi» (Gente imaginaria); en 1987, el premio Tanizaki por «Yumenokizaka-Bunkiten» (La intersección Yumenokizaka); en 1989, el premio Kawabata por «Yoppa-dani eno Koka» (El descenso al Valle Yoppa); y, en 1992, el premio de CF de Japón por «Asa no Gasuparu» (Gaspar de la Mañana). En 1997 fue nombrado por el Gobierno francés «Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres»

Morio Kita was the pen name of Japanese novelist, essayist, and psychiatrist, Sokichi Saitō. He attended Azabu High School, Matsumoto Higher School (now part of Shinshu University) and graduated from Tohoku University's School of Medicine. He initially worked as a doctor at Keio University Hospital. Motivated by the collections of his father's poems and the books of German author Thomas Mann, he decided to become a novelist. He is the father of the essayist Yuka Saitō.

Kōbō Abe (安部 公房 Abe Kōbō), pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe, was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer, and inventor. He was the son of a doctor and studied medicine at Tokyo University. He never practised however, giving it up to join a literary group that aimed to apply surrealist techniques to Marxist ideology. Abe has been often compared to Franz Kafka and Alberto Moravia for his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society and his modernist sensibilities. He was first published as a poet in 1947 with Mumei shishu ("Poems of an unknown poet") and as a novelist the following year with Owarishi michi no shirube ni ("The Road Sign at the End of the Street"), which established his reputation. Though he did much work as an avant-garde novelist and playwright, it was not until the publication of The Woman in the Dunes in 1962 that he won widespread international acclaim. In the 1960s, he collaborated with Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara in the film adaptations of The Pitfall, Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another and The Ruined Map. In 1973, he founded an acting studio in Tokyo, where he trained performers and directed plays. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1977.